Leveling Blocks vs jack pads

RCMAN46 wrote:

garmp wrote:
Well finally got them done. Since I'm still in lock down wasn't in any hurry. It was what I call a rummage project. I rummaged through my assortment of junk and found a little of this and a little of that.
Found some nice nylon cord, but it wasn't thick enough to suite me, so I braided 3 strands together for my pulls/handles. Cut the boards 10" along with scrap plywood, glued & screwed, as suggested. Drilled a 1/4' hole into a 9/16 hole. slide the twine into the 1/4" hole & up through the top. Tied a knot in the twine and pulled back into the larger hole. Did this on both sided then filled the holes with Gorilla glue.
This should do the trick.

I made a similar set of blocks with a 12 inch square 3/4 outdoor plywood and two pieces of 2x6 pressure treated wood. Mine are not as pretty but yours look very nice.

One thing I learned that caught me totally off guard. I was in a hurry and did not put the blocks in the 5th wheel basement but instead set them in the bed of my truck.

As I was going down the highway at about 55 mph I heard a noise and looked in my mirror to see one of the blocks fly out of the bed and go under my trailer.

The block ripped a hole in my trailer belly and a semi truck following me hit and destroyed the block.

I am sure the trucker was not happy and fortunately for me did no harm to the semi.

Had something similar happen , small cooler behind the fifth wheel hitch , out it flew , never knew it, a car passed us pointing , thought it was low tire or something . Pulled over couldn’t see anything wrong continued on until we got camped for the night and no cooler . That was a lesson learned early on towing a fifth wheel.