Taking the camper off the truck

Just me...I don't want any help. I do it by myself. Too much help is too much stress. I have the wired remote and it is easy. Back in "the day" I had the manual jacks...really manual..ratchet jacks with a handle. It took forever.
The previous Bigfoot owner installed something he thought would help...1/2" pvc pipe on the bottom sides with snow plow poles? inside. Pull the poles out and supposed to be a guide. I need to remove them, but something similar may help someone. I use 2" thick concrete blocks under my jacks. Adds a bit of solid support.
I think the most important thing is a level storage area with a level approach.
Just take it easy and don't stress over it.

I don't like it on those legs either. Fast, careful, and drop it on the truck (or dolly) as soon as I can. There's a guy near me who leaves a camper on its tippy toes in his super short driveway when he goes to work. He backs under it every night.

My last TC (Lance) had electric jacks remote control) my new one has manual jacks (armstrong control.....:B). Actually, it's not too bad, I get my wife on one side with a cordless drill and jack adapter and me on the other with another cordless drill and adapter and we work as a team.

I don't like lifting it up to take it off, my truck is 6 over stock (lifted) so to get the camper off, I have to run the legs all the way out and it just clears the bed...it's way up there and it wobbles a bit and makes me nervous.

I always set it on and take it off on concrete, level concrete. And when I put it on, I get it on asap, makes me nervous up in the stratosphere like it is.....

To get it in square and spaced properly between the wheel wells, I painted a red vertical line in the center of the camper that I can see through my back slider window and I have the split slider centered in it tracks so I use the vertical split of the window to center the camper in the bed. Did the same thing with my Lance as well.

I also gage the back of the camper against the back corner of the bed on the drivers side when I put it in, the camper sits (at the back corner) 1.5" off the vertical post (everyone will be different than mine) but between the back vertical bed post and the center line on the camper, I can 'get 'er in' first try.

I back the truck up (idling) until it's close, then I LOWER the front until the bumpers are close to the bed surface (looking in and down) and then back the rest of the way in (idling) until the truck contacts the camper. The I set it down in thew back until the truck starts to take the weight of the camper and then back to the front, dropping it in all the way. Then back to the back running the jacks up (not all the way, I leave about 4" extended) and back to the front for the same.

I run HappyJac in the front and Torqlifts in the back and I use the conventional screw in Happyjac turnbuckles.

That is how I do it and mine comes off and on quiote a few times every season. I use the truck for a farm truck so when I'm not camping, the camper is off.

I store my camper in the garage.

I put the camper on a single axle boat trailer (with the boat bunks removed) and use that as a dolly to move it around (with my quad.

I leave the camper on the trailer, in the garage, all winter and in the summer when I go camping, the trailer hauls my quads.

I'm into multiple use.

As many times as I've loaded and unloaded campers, I still get a bit nervous and I never do it on a windy day.

Hope that helps someone...

I won't do it in heavy winds. If you always store it in the same level spot you can mark the legs so you can go right up to the correct loading/unloading ht without having to keep adjusting the camper or guessing. I watch the drivers side wheel well as a reference point that the camper is parallel and close.

Doesn't bother me much, I do it by myself. I probably don't get it loaded perfectly but it's close enough.

Sure a lot easier now with the electric jacks, last one I had to crank each corner... got dizzy by the time it was up.

Yah, it's a PITA for a single person.

I use Tape to mark the camper pad, to place it and then align the camper to the pad. I use tape, painters so it can come off easily, to mark alignment spots that I can see in the side mirrors.

There are a few more discussions on this from Lasers, to tape on camper middle and cab back window...

One thing that I suddenly realized was the winds.... I have a high flatbed so the jacks are pretty much next to maxed out, I use the plastic blocks.. but I would not off load/onload in a strong wind, just doesn't look stable...

I guess, the more you do it, the easier it becomes, but not convinced of that, heheh... I'm constantly getting out to check while loading it on...

Fun, it is not but gets better the more you do it... sorta..
Hope that helps a little..

Slow and easy...lots harder loading for us. DH is so much of perfectionist it has to be exactly square. I try not to look in rear view mirror only side view, looking at it that close is nerve wracking. I am the one backing truck and he is the spotter. If I keep thinking I have less than 2" on each hip of truck and most of time I am good to go.

I just keep mine on the truck year round!

Of course I have a car too!