Stable-lift ?
We are considering having a stable-lift system installed on our 2014 Livin Lite 8.6 truck camper. Since we love to boondock on public lands, we are looking for a solution that will allow us to easily...
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To those who don't have one: you don't know what you're talking about.
The Stable Lift works GREAT on uneven ground. It DOES adjust quite a bit, you can indeed level the rig up with the Stable Lift jacks.
The Stable Lift doesn't hang as low as your differentials, you don't really lose any clearance. I also have a "belly bar" under my truck and the Stable Lift is no lower.
Sure, you CAN offload in the woods with four corner jacks, but it's infinitely less hassle with a SL.
The unloading proceedure is this: press the buttons. Unplug the light cord. Drive out.
No tie downs to mess with, no nothing. Loading up is just as easy, it's a total game changer.
The lift itself clamps the camper down to the truck.
If I wanted to go two miles down the street to buy a couple bags of ice, I'd drop my camper to do it. Would you, with your stock jacks? Really?
Safety and stability aren't even in the same league either. As for off-roading, I've torn corner jacks off before. More than once. The Stable Lift is much, much more stout. If you whack a corner, the load is spread out over the whole thing. I've never had any problems,
And I have had it protect my truck, a sheet of plywood blew from a neighbor's campsite in strong wind and would have banged up my truck, but the lift saved it. It's like a partial exo-cage.
Installation is a big deal, yes. But once it's done, your camper is SO easy to load/unload, and SO much safer, you'll forget all about that.
If you haven't had one, you're not qualified to weigh in. You also don't know what you're missing.
I'd never, ever go back to corner peg-legs. I paid more for my Stable Lift than I did for my camper. Because it's that worth it.
The Stable Lift works GREAT on uneven ground. It DOES adjust quite a bit, you can indeed level the rig up with the Stable Lift jacks.
The Stable Lift doesn't hang as low as your differentials, you don't really lose any clearance. I also have a "belly bar" under my truck and the Stable Lift is no lower.
Sure, you CAN offload in the woods with four corner jacks, but it's infinitely less hassle with a SL.
The unloading proceedure is this: press the buttons. Unplug the light cord. Drive out.
No tie downs to mess with, no nothing. Loading up is just as easy, it's a total game changer.
The lift itself clamps the camper down to the truck.
If I wanted to go two miles down the street to buy a couple bags of ice, I'd drop my camper to do it. Would you, with your stock jacks? Really?
Safety and stability aren't even in the same league either. As for off-roading, I've torn corner jacks off before. More than once. The Stable Lift is much, much more stout. If you whack a corner, the load is spread out over the whole thing. I've never had any problems,
And I have had it protect my truck, a sheet of plywood blew from a neighbor's campsite in strong wind and would have banged up my truck, but the lift saved it. It's like a partial exo-cage.
Installation is a big deal, yes. But once it's done, your camper is SO easy to load/unload, and SO much safer, you'll forget all about that.
If you haven't had one, you're not qualified to weigh in. You also don't know what you're missing.
I'd never, ever go back to corner peg-legs. I paid more for my Stable Lift than I did for my camper. Because it's that worth it.
