Stabilizer blocks alternatives

I made plywood boxes out of 3/8ths plywood . With a little thought you can get 3 different heights out of each box . I believe mine are 4 inch , 7 inch or ten inches . Will they last , mine are 7 years old !

I've been using these plastic stands that I got off of Amazon. They stack on each other for storage, not as heavy as wood and they reduce the length that the jacks have to extend because of my taller trailer.



I still put a piece of wood under the jack and the 'block' as it seems to spread the load better.

I also added the Strong Arm bars and that's the single most best thing to removing pretty much all the 'bounce' out the trailer when walking inside.

I have 4 on the rear and 2 up front. Here is the front setup.



Works for me. :)

Good luck! Mitch

Would something like this be too pricey?

Anderson blocks

We just use 2 x 10 pressure treated wood cut to 12" lengths... but we have a different situation, too.

Rob

That's alot of height for blocks. I could see a good stack on one end or the other if the spot is a ways out of level, but not as a matter of course.
Are you running out of travel in the stabilizers at roughly 1' from the ground? Doesn't seem plausible that the camper stabilizers aren't even big enough to reach the ground.

All that said, I agree, having a pile of little plastic levelers seems excessive and expensive. Maybe bigger lumber? maybe 2 or 3 pieces of 6x6 lumber per corner, short blocks like 1' long?

Build yourself hollow boxes out of 2x6's Lighter weight and still can get the height you need.

You could get a metal block attached where the jacks are now and attach the jacks to that if you find you always need blocks. That's what I'm considering doing with mine since even if we're on a completely level site we need at least 5 blocks.

If you are talking about the stabilizers that you crank down on each corner of the TT; I use a single 12"x 12"x 1/4" sheet of ply wood on loose ground and I lower the stabilizers down directly on concrete and solid asphalt.

Their job is to simply reduce the amount of bounce in the trailer. They are not intended support the trailer. The biggest source of bounce comes from the trailer suspension springs, supporting frame at the corners dampens the bounce somewhat.