trailer blown off jack stand
I have been a stalker here on rv.net for a while but this is my first post. We own a Coleman 262bh. January 9th we had a terrible wind storm with winds over 100mph. this past weekend I went out to my...
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The wheels were chocked, but I am guessing the wind lifted the trailer and blew the chocks out from under the wheels. 107mph is what was recorded, hurricane 2 force winds in Colorado. Highest ever recorded here in Colorado Springs, so I would say not very regular :-) I was using black plastic chocks, but I guess I will look into something heavier. I have since added screw tighten wheel stops. I had no idea not to have the stabilizer jacks deployed. I only put them down because most of the RVs in the storage have them down, I wont put them down from now on. First RV, so I guess this was a fairly cheap lesson learned. New stabilizer jack was 25 dollars. Thanks for all the help and guidance.
