What do you put under your stabilizers and trailer tongue?

I have a chainnsaw carved bear that I did,under the toungue, it is on its back with all four legs up and his head is turned looking out.
I also carved a turtle, squirrel,beaver, and a few extra bears in different poses for the stabilizers, all different heights for the uneven ground, will put up some pics when I can

rockhillmanor wrote:

What do you put under your stabilizers and

trailer tongue jack? I'm tired of using bricks.

Can't believe all of you are still using bricks and blocks to hold the TT tongue up! :E

Add a swivel wheel to the tongue. Takes all of about 5 minutes to install it yourself!

Don't need to bring bricks, blocks or wood to set it on AND being able to raise and lower it is priceless when lining up/releasing for hooking and unhooking! They come in various tongue weight capacities.

I wouldn't tow a trailer without having one of these on the TT tongue.



This is all I carry to stabilize the tongue wheel!


2,000 lb capacity comes with flat foot.

Does it get in the way of the weight distribution bars? I personally need to remove my jack each time I pull in or out of my driveway because of clearance.

rockhillmanor wrote:
Add a swivel wheel to the tongue.

Any trailer I've owned has wiggled enough as it is so I use a set of BAL X-Chock to help minimize the effect ... adding a wheel to the tongue jack would only exacerbate the problem and defeat the purpose of the X-Chocks. When hitching up there's no way I'd be able to shift the trailer to match it up to the hitch ball even if the TJ was equipped with a wheel ... instead, the trailer stays put and I use a Swift Hitch Wireless Camera System to hitch up and can line the hitch ball up perfectly to the trailer coupler with just one try, every time. :B

thanks guys - I appreciate your responses about the height of blocks under jacks and stabilizers - Makes sense. I have been only using one lynx block under the jack and stabilizer - but will change that.

Lynx or wood.

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.

As a contractor we have no shortage of scrap pieces of lumber in the back of the TV. But we also have linx blocks as they weigh far less.

Not sure if the swivel wheel will hold up under heavy tongue weights...
mine is around 1K. The tongue wheel worked great when we had a pop-up.
Just wondering....

8x8 sections of red cedar I got free from a mill work. I need to cut them down a little but cedar is very light compared to treated wood and it does not rot.

What do you put under your stabilizers and

trailer tongue jack? I'm tired of using bricks.

Can't believe all of you are still using bricks and blocks to hold the TT tongue up! :E

Add a swivel wheel to the tongue. Takes all of about 5 minutes to install it yourself!

Don't need to bring bricks, blocks or wood to set it on AND being able to raise and lower it is priceless when lining up/releasing for hooking and unhooking! They come in various tongue weight capacities.

I wouldn't tow a trailer without having one of these on the TT tongue.



This is all I carry to stabilize the tongue wheel!


2,000 lb capacity comes with flat foot.