Hi I have a 20 foot 2 wheel 2018 wolf pup travel trailer from Forest River. It has a manual crank to unhitch and I use a cinder block underneath the metal hitch bar to give clearance for the truck to get out. This is probably a dumb question, but is it safe to lower the travel trailer once unhitched? My main concern is: is there a bunch of weight being supported by the hitch bar being propped up on the cinder block for the truck clearance? Will lowering it cause damage? My trailer is currently at a slight angle downward and would like to correct if safe to do so. Thanks for any feedback.

I really would not use a cinder block... I like solid blocks of wood.I use a couple of 4x8 blocks that are only around 18" long and stack them.I can break a cinder block with a small hammer... Or just dropping it..The cinder block is heavier than my chunks of scrape wood, so there you go.. :)Good luck!Mitch

999 times out of a thousand cinder blocks are fine. Do you feel lucky?

MitchF150 wrote:I really would not use a cinder block... I like solid blocks of wood.I use a couple of 4x8 blocks that are only around 18" long and stack them.I can break a cinder block with a small hammer... Or just dropping it..The cinder block is heavier than my chunks of scrape wood, so there you go.. :)Good luck!MitchThank you! OP to address your question; Most, if not all people that sleep in trailers adjust the height of tongue after unhook to level front to back. The only issue is with trailer chocked tight long travel on a short trailer it can stress where the jack mounts to tongue, or try to bend jack. This stress is eliminated by a wheel on the bottom of jack. Now sometimes the jack does not have enough travel. Prop the tongue on blocks, then adjust block under jack

I second what Mitch said. I would never use a cinder block to support anything like a car or trailer. I had a shop teacher back n the 70's that would jack up his own car and place a cinder block under the frame. After lowering the jack, he would tap the block with a light hammer. The cinder block would shatter and the car dropped to the ground. I never forgot that.

Agree on the cinder block thing, but really don’t understand the question. Based on what I think your asking, yes use the jack to raise or lower the front to level out the trailer. Although you may be asking something else because what I said above just seems to obvious to bea question.

Question about lowering unhitched 2 wheel travel trailer

Sjm9911
Explorer
Aug 01, 2021
They sell jack stands for the tounge also. But as allready said, a block of wood is a much better idea. And lift or lower away!
Grit_dog
Navigator
Aug 01, 2021
Agree on the cinder block thing, but really don’t understand the question.
Based on what I think your asking, yes use the jack to raise or lower the front to level out the trailer.
Although you may be asking something else because what I said above just seems to obvious to bea question.
BarabooBob
Explorer III
Jul 31, 2021
I second what Mitch said. I would never use a cinder block to support anything like a car or trailer. I had a shop teacher back n the 70's that would jack up his own car and place a cinder block under the frame. After lowering the jack, he would tap the block with a light hammer. The cinder block would shatter and the car dropped to the ground. I never forgot that.
JRscooby
Explorer II
Jul 31, 2021
MitchF150 wrote:
I really would not use a cinder block... I like solid blocks of wood.

I use a couple of 4x8 blocks that are only around 18" long and stack them.

I can break a cinder block with a small hammer... Or just dropping it..

The cinder block is heavier than my chunks of scrape wood, so there you go.. :)

Good luck!

Mitch

Thank you!

OP to address your question; Most, if not all people that sleep in trailers adjust the height of tongue after unhook to level front to back. The only issue is with trailer chocked tight long travel on a short trailer it can stress where the jack mounts to tongue, or try to bend jack. This stress is eliminated by a wheel on the bottom of jack.
Now sometimes the jack does not have enough travel. Prop the tongue on blocks, then adjust block under jack
Lwiddis
Explorer II
Jul 31, 2021
999 times out of a thousand cinder blocks are fine. Do you feel lucky?
MitchF150
Explorer III
Jul 31, 2021
I really would not use a cinder block... I like solid blocks of wood.

I use a couple of 4x8 blocks that are only around 18" long and stack them.

I can break a cinder block with a small hammer... Or just dropping it..

The cinder block is heavier than my chunks of scrape wood, so there you go.. :)

Good luck!

Mitch

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