Scary: footplate slipped out of position!
I almost had a major disaster. It certainly put me into panic mode! I've been using a 10" stack of stabilizer pads under the tongue jack landing gear, ever since I got this camper. It takes forever f...
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I have a different take on this. Of course yes, chock the wheels. I learned my lesson back when we had a pop-up and we had a site with an incline. The trailer rolled back off the platform for the tongue jack and started to go down the hill. Scared the daylights out of me. What stopped it was the tongue jack sinking into the ground. Good times.
But I find the notion of stacking 14" of boards or plastic widgets to be the equivalent of stacking 3 chairs to get something out of a high kitchen cabinet. A basic knowledge of physics should help in understanding what the potential issues are. Regardless of how well you are chocked it would only take a good wind storm to move the trailer enough to cause a problem, possibly bending the stabilizer jacks or causing frame damage. What would I really be saving by stacking boards that high? Two minutes of cranking the jack?
But I find the notion of stacking 14" of boards or plastic widgets to be the equivalent of stacking 3 chairs to get something out of a high kitchen cabinet. A basic knowledge of physics should help in understanding what the potential issues are. Regardless of how well you are chocked it would only take a good wind storm to move the trailer enough to cause a problem, possibly bending the stabilizer jacks or causing frame damage. What would I really be saving by stacking boards that high? Two minutes of cranking the jack?
