X-chock vs. Jack Stabilizers

BobsYourUncle wrote:
Why complicate things?

I put a pair of scissor jacks on the front where none existed and my 27 foot TT is solid as can be.
No give, no sway, no bounce, no rocking, no movement at all.
I don't do anything with the wheels or the frame nearby. Don't need to.
Heck,I am set up right now on a fairly level concrete surface and my TT is not flexing in any way. No bounce from the frame flexing. It doesn't flex when supported on 4 corners. My TT is rock solid with a scissor jack on each corner.

I put my front jacks 2 feet back from the front of my T frame. grabbed the number out of the air. Ahhhhh - ?? 2 feet that oughta be fine, and it is.

End of movement problem. It moved a lot when I had only rear jacks. After I put the front jacks on a few days ago, all that changed.

Simple solution, a used pair of jacks off Craigslist.

After reading your post what jumped out at me was the length of your TT and when I re read my first post I realized I had left out one VERY IMPORTANT point and that was I failed to mention that while supporting a TT at the corners is still the least effective place the length of the actual trailer seems to also be a HUGE FACTOR here. Like you my last trailer was 26' and I could get the same results with supporting it at the ends with my screw type jack stands as I now have with the modified locations on my 32' TT. Initially, when I tried to use my old screw type jack stands at the approx locations as the existing scissor jacks on my new 32' TT I could not achieve the same stability as I previously got on my 26' TT at the same approx. locations. Based on past threads on this issue it seems this issue of excessive ROCK-N-ROLL is more of an issue on TT's in the 30' and longer lengths. You wouldn't think 3 to 5' would be the tipping off difference, but it seems that is the case and this is just based on ancedotal information from threads here on this issue and is really noticable in TTs in the 32 to 35' range. I apologize for not qualifying my posts with that IMPORTANT INFORMATION and hope I didn't mislead anyone.

Thus I have to caveat all my posts here to say for TT's in say 25 to 27' and under you might get acceptable results with these scissor type jacks even at the corners of a TT ... I just don't have any practical experience in that area since I have never used the scissor type jacks on that sized trailer. In any event moving the support locations closer to the axles will IMO give better stability results regardless of the type of support used ... of course too close could have the opposite effect too since it's all about LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION :B

Larry