Raising tires for winter storage.
I winterized my RV, leveled some 2x12’s to park it on, tied on the cover for the winter; then a friend asked if I was going to jack the wheels off the ground to relieve the tire weight. I had neve...
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2oldman wrote:
The practice probably died out about the same time car batteries could be stored on a concrete floor.
LOL.. IMO best guess.
Jacking the trailer back then was common and not a big deal as the largest camping trailers (TTs) were in the 18'-22' range. Most were much shorter single axle units.
5th wheel trailers weren't around yet so our campers were small compared to todays 30'-40'+ units.
And back then most folks I knew that had a camper didn't have money to buy new tires every 3-5 years so many followed our tire mfg recommendations of blocking the trailer with the tires off the ground.
