At a craft show set up Friday I saw sumptin I ain't seen afore ! Tandem trailer , the gentleman had 8 chocks cut at an angle from 4x4 He firmly placed one in front of each tire ! Then he pulled forward maybe an inch and a half , loading the tires up on the inclines . Then he pounded chocks under rear of each tire , released the breaks and trailer rolled back a little bit and tires were held solid in chocks . Probably took 90 seconds . Works for me ! Did I ' splain " it right ?

Sounds good but X chocks only take a few seconds after the initial setup. It's literally a matter of holding them up to the tire and flipping a lever. No need to move trailer.

That's probably the oldest method to secure a wheeled load aside from shooting the horse. Undoing it isn't so easy though as getting the right amount of pull or push is trickier than the set up. It does work though.

I use 4 plastic chocks and gently pound them in with a hammer on a tandem trailer. Zero movement.

I made my own chocks using 2x4s and allthread. They work great.

made these today, they seem to work good and less than $20 invested.

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penguin149
Explorer
Jun 05, 2015
Not trying to hijack the thread but any ideas for a single axle trailer? I've looked at the BAL leveler/chock but at $65 and being rather large, I'm still looking. Some of the sites at local CGs have steep inclines so I'm looking for something solid to stop any movement or potential to roll away!
_DJ_1
Explorer II
Jun 05, 2015
Bigbird65 wrote:
I made my own chocks using 2x4s and allthread. They work great.

Just make sure you re-tighten them after the tires cool!!
cjoseph
Explorer
Jun 05, 2015
penguin149 wrote:
Not trying to hijack the thread but any ideas for a single axle trailer? I've looked at the BAL leveler/chock but at $65 and being rather large, I'm still looking. Some of the sites at local CGs have steep inclines so I'm looking for something solid to stop any movement or potential to roll away!

The method in the OP would work just fine.

Put a chock in front of each tire, pull up an inch or two to load the trailer on the first few inches of the front chock. Put the vehicle in park and set the brake firm or have someone else place the next chock. Put a chock behind each tire and release vehicle to coast back onto the rear chock. You should now have an inch or so of each tire on each chock.
2oldman
Explorer II
Jun 05, 2015
Hope I get an answer..rather than just hearing about other peoples' chocks.
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Jun 05, 2015
I've read with interest all these X chock threads but, one question keeps popping into my head.

What happens when you forget to remove them and drive away??

It looks like if you did that it would damage your TT or tires.

I forget my cheap orange chocks all the time. It never hurts anything. I just go opps, and then go back and pick them up.
YamaDooed
Explorer
Jun 05, 2015
CavemanCharlie wrote:
I've read with interest all these X chock threads but, one question keeps popping into my head.

What happens when you forget to remove them and drive away??

It looks like if you did that it would damage your TT or tires.

I forget my cheap orange chocks all the time. It never hurts anything. I just go opps, and then go back and pick them up.

With the 4 trailer tires locked up you cant just drive forward away and over the chocks.
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Jun 05, 2015
YamaDooed wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
I've read with interest all these X chock threads but, one question keeps popping into my head.

What happens when you forget to remove them and drive away??

It looks like if you did that it would damage your TT or tires.

I forget my cheap orange chocks all the time. It never hurts anything. I just go opps, and then go back and pick them up.

With the 4 trailer tires locked up you cant just drive forward away and over the chocks.

I suppose that's true. After a few feet you would quickly notice that something was wrong when you were dragging the tires.

The tires might give enough through for them to pop out of there and do some damage?
shum02
Explorer
Jun 05, 2015
CavemanCharlie wrote:
YamaDooed wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
I've read with interest all these X chock threads but, one question keeps popping into my head.

What happens when you forget to remove them and drive away??

It looks like if you did that it would damage your TT or tires.

I forget my cheap orange chocks all the time. It never hurts anything. I just go opps, and then go back and pick them up.

With the 4 trailer tires locked up you cant just drive forward away and over the chocks.

I suppose that's true. After a few feet you would quickly notice that something was wrong when you were dragging the tires.

The tires might give enough through for them to pop out of there and do some damage?

Mine never have. Just keep dragging along till I stop and pull them out. I modded my "allthread" design to the pipe clamp version. No tools required, DW likes that :)

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