Levelling with Scissor Jacks

by billieg2

JJBirrish is one of those members that I always see very good, solid advice coming from. I consider him pretty close to an expert on here as he always replies with facts and logic.

I have not seen him ever flame anyone here, and he didn't flame the OP. Saying what he did was stupid (or silly to be exact) isn't the same as calling the OP stupid.

Well that makes me feel much better. :R

First, he doesn't know what type frame the jacks are used on whether it is a 10" single frame or twin 16" frames so how does he "know" what will happen?

Second, the frame is jacked by 7k plus jacks more than enough to lift the frame safely.

Third, it usually takes under 3" to level a side far from lifting the wheels off the ground or far enough to "bend" a frame.

I see so much BS on forums that new RVers take as truth and it's just not right. Everyday people get the Bigfoot system installed on their 5th wheels and believe me the system is installed on the frame. The only difference between the Bigfoot system is the auto lift function because each of those jacks are just 3,500 lb jacks half the specs of a 7k scissor jack.

I installed the scissor 7,500 lb jacks on my unit and they work very well thank you without any frame bending. Unless your friend JJBirrish is an engineer for RV frames then he should express his "opinions" as opinions and not fact.

The people who installed them and use them have much more information than someone who saw his friends trailer malfunction with stock jacks.

It would be very helpful for you to learn to use the quote feature so that people can distinguish your words from others ....you are blending in my post with yours so that most other readers are not going to be able to tell where one starts, the other ends.

I sure hope I am never the unsuspecting victim that buys yours or the OP's TTs that you messed around with. We are all fully entitled to call this test stupid, because that is exactly what I think it is. He probably cuts off his nose to spite his face too, but he can knock himself out. I just, again, hope to never be the sucker who purchases one of these TTs that have had stabilziing jacks being used for leveling to this degree that you and the OP are using them for.

In closing, I will be much more apt to follow JJBirrish's advice with his many posts here that have proven to be extremely spot on and his 40+ years vs your two year experience in RV'ing (per your profile, RV'ing since 2010). I write this post for the benefit of newbies who might happen onto this thread and think that leveling with stabilizers is quite okay...if they want to do it, fine, its their unit, but they should know that isn't what stabilizers are for, and it is a big mistake that most newbies make. Even when I first started over 13 years ago I thought you could level with them until i heard that "Creek" underneath that sure didn't sound right. The internet was not as readily used back then, sure wish I had RV.Net in those earlier days. Even the heavier duty jacks mention they are used for stabilization. A tad bit of lifting? Maybe that is fine. But I woulnd't make it a practice to use them for leveling, and certainly not for jacking the TT up, that is what leveling blocks are for.