MN Ben wrote:
My wife and I hung on the very front edge of the off loaded camper and it tipped. Most likely because it had three legs. OP, if your camper has three legs ( sorry I didn't read your specs,) then your camper will tip w/ out support.
Not most likely, DEFINITELY because it had three legs!
Three legs puts the pivot point on a line between the front jack and the single jack on the opposite side. The line runs pretty close to the camper's COG, so yeah you can tip over a 3-jack camper.
3-jack campers went out of style with the 1980's, though.
Any 4-jack camper will absolutely positively NOT tip over on to its nose with multiple people in the cabover.
Even if a jack fails, the camper falls down. It doesn't "tip over;" it doesn't pivot up on to the cabover like a see-saw. The cabover might touch the ground if it's long enough and/or the main box collapses, but the criteria for a "tip over" is that both rear jacks are up off the ground. You might get one rear jack off the ground in a front jack failure but never both.
