Rookie Mistake - need advice
Parked the trailer, had the post come down on two pieces of wood to get it high enough to unhitch from our truck but then top piece of wood split so we knocked it loose. It now occurs to me that we ar...
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rbpru wrote:
Yup, nothing new here. When it happened to me, I used the car jack to hold the tongue while I reset the tongue jack block.
Nothing rookie about it. It can happen to anyone.
Good luck
Yep - we've all done our things. My personal favorite was when I forgot to put the chocks in before unhooking the trailer on a small slope. As the trailer began to roll back, what did I do? I grabbed the jack and started pulling as though Mighty-Me was somehow going to be able to stop the 8,000 pound trailer from going wherever it wanted to go!! :h
Luckily, it only went about a foot and then stopped, but I learned my lesson in a hurry.
As for your issue - others are right that you could probably just use the stab jacks (especially with a smaller trailer). That said, I'm more conservative and, since the stab jacks aren't meant to hold that much weight, I would probably use my truck jack closer to the tongue just to make sure that I don't risk any warping on the frame. Again, I fully admit that would be my hyper-vigilance and would likely be overkill, but I wouldn't personally see the reason to take the risk.
