What do you put under your stabilizers and trailer tongue?
What do you put under your stabilizers and trailer tongue jack? I'm tired of using bricks.
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Ruthless wrote:
What do you put under your stabilizers and trailer tongue jack? I'm tired of using bricks.
SoundGuy wrote:
I use Lynx levelers for leveling side to side but was given two sets of a different brand of plastic leveling blocks so I secured the blocks together to make up four easy to handle 4x sets and use them exclusively under the stabs, sometimes one under each stab, sometimes a couple under one or more stabs depending on the slope of the ground. Under the tongue jack I use a 4x stack of 2"x 8" wood anytime the trailer once leveled is sitting either normally or tongue high, as shown in this pic.. If the trailer once leveled is sitting really tongue low I instead use a single square piece of 3/4" plywood to provide solid footing for the tongue jack.
dvitale300 wrote:
SoundGuy. - why so high, I mean why use 4 of the lynx blocks? Just curious as I've only been using 1 under the tongue and stabilizers.
Any power tongue jack I've owned has had a maximum extension of 18" which means that even when the trailer is sitting on a relatively level site I have to extend the tongue a fair bit to to level the trailer front to back, on a tongue high site it'll require even more, sometimes more extension than the TJ itself can provide. Also, when any tongue jack is fully extended (or close to it) I've found it's much less stable than if it's only partially extended ... using a 4x stack underneath the TJ solves this issue. I've also found that a 4x stack underneath the TJ is just about right when hitching / unhitching and means I don't have to extend / retract the TJ as much as I would without the stack. I suppose the other reason I use it while camping is that my driveway slopes significantly to the street and the 4x stack I use while camping is also actually part of a triple 4x stack I use when I park & level the trailer here at the house, as shown in this pic.
The same argument applies to using some sort of stack under the stabs - I find they're more stable if not fully extended.
