2x Blocks Under Jacks Reason??
Just curious,........they give us all the conveniences of home, usually keeping it simple, like hydraulic levelers, that "I" just drive in a camp spot, drop the jacks, let it level, push button the sl...
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Jacks are great going down, but when going up, it is only a relatively puny spring lifting them up.
Dropping jacks onto blocks is probably a habit for other terrain. I know that I'd be throwing blocks under jacks, or at least some type of object to spread the load out since jacks tend to have a small surface area. On asphalt, this might leave marks. I'm used to camping on sugar sand, so if I dropped jacks without using boards or blocks, the jacks would just burrow into the ground, and would require some digging to get them lifted back, as well as some TLC to get the abrasive sand out of the mechanism.
If blocks are too heavy, there was a review in Motorhome magazine about boards with ropes attached, so one can just chuck the boards underneath the jacks, drop them, then just grab the ropes after lifting the jacks up when it is time to leave. Quite a back-saver.
Dropping jacks onto blocks is probably a habit for other terrain. I know that I'd be throwing blocks under jacks, or at least some type of object to spread the load out since jacks tend to have a small surface area. On asphalt, this might leave marks. I'm used to camping on sugar sand, so if I dropped jacks without using boards or blocks, the jacks would just burrow into the ground, and would require some digging to get them lifted back, as well as some TLC to get the abrasive sand out of the mechanism.
If blocks are too heavy, there was a review in Motorhome magazine about boards with ropes attached, so one can just chuck the boards underneath the jacks, drop them, then just grab the ropes after lifting the jacks up when it is time to leave. Quite a back-saver.
