Preferred portable jack for Travel Queen ?
Hi there, just brought my first truck camper home and need to get it off of the truck it came in on. The camper is a 1966 Travel Queen (10ft Model 110) and did not come with the complete OEM jack s...
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Once any lifting mechanism is in place, be certain to brace each corner jack with geometric bracing. The original used triangular connectors.
Note the triangular bracing style in the above photo.
A camper corner mount uses triangular stiffening just in the several mounting screws if you can picture it. Last thing you want is to lift it, just to have it hinge over on you. Even maybe a ratchet strap from near the bottom of the jack (part that doesn't extend) up to the center hole I was talking about. That would allow two rear ratchets to keep the camper from hinging forward, and the two front ratchets from the camper hinging rearward.
Note the triangular bracing style in the above photo.
A camper corner mount uses triangular stiffening just in the several mounting screws if you can picture it. Last thing you want is to lift it, just to have it hinge over on you. Even maybe a ratchet strap from near the bottom of the jack (part that doesn't extend) up to the center hole I was talking about. That would allow two rear ratchets to keep the camper from hinging forward, and the two front ratchets from the camper hinging rearward.
