Air Shocks or Air Bags on TT

Rbertalotto wrote:

But how much lift articulation are you really going to get and how much trouble is that worth, as opposed to putting out boards or an Anderson leveler?

I have the the red plastic, under wheel, wedge type levelers....a great solution, but a pain when they are covered with mud and need to be deployed and undeployed and stored etc.

For storage, a cloth bag, with trash bag for liner will control the mud spreading to the rest of stuff.

Plus where I usually camp, I need to also bring a couple plywood boards so they don't sink into the ground.

Most ramps have a larger footprint that the tire that sets on it. So if you have issues with ramp sinking, the tire will too.

And a few trips in and out of the truck to check level if I'm alone.

If you are moving the trailer up a ramp to level, mount a vial, or ball in curved tube where you can see it in mirror.
If building a ramp, then putting tire on top, mark your level so you can tell from jump how tall the ramp must be. (A 2 foot long whiskey stick on the floor, lift the end to center bubble. Measure end to floor. Each half inch will call for a 2X on the stack.) I build the stack next to tire, put chock behind tire on high-side. Pull up, slide stack sideways behind tire, then back up to chock.

They give me about 3.5" of lift. I placed a bottle jack between the frame and the spring perch on my trailer and I can get just about the sale lift with this method.

Nothing to touch, nothing to store, nothing on the ground.....

And I realized I really only need one axle to be manipulated....You don't have to do both. But stability improves if you do both.

Now, If there was a way for the lift mechanism to push against the top of the tires, rather than the axle, this would REALLY stabilize the trailer from rocking, just like those devices you install between the two wheels!

Not sure, would you need longer stroke to get same lift out of 1 axle?

Just trumping here now; Mount a pin to the frame so it sticks out centered between tires. Eye on top of jack, (thinking of something like a bottle shaped screw jack that came with light-duty Ford trucks from at least mid '60s to mid'80s) Then make a wedged shaped heavy duty pan that fit between tires, below jack when hanging on pin. Tighten jack would lock and lift.