First bone-head mistake this past weekend.
Camping this past weekend at Ainsworth State Park with the girlfriend and the dog, and the site that I had reserved was extremely un-level, side-to-side and front-to-back. After putting the left wh...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
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Chocks are great at stopping trailer from rolling.....not so much at stopping trailer from sliding sideways.
OP stated: While it was lowering, it slid to the left and fell off the blocks the jack was on,...
When I lowered the front, the sway control dug into the ground, pushing the trailer to the side.
Clearly trailer slipped sideways with some push.
As for folks being in trailer while leveling.....that is a case by case affair.
BUT I doubt if GF will be in it next time :B
I have never heard of or seen a trailer slide sideways. If the tongue jack came off the blocks, and one side of the trailer was not chocked, then the trailer will pivot to the chocked side. This sounds like what happened to the OP.
The solution, as already mentioned, is to always chock BOTH sides of the trailer. That is where the "between the tires" chocks come in handy. I have been using a set of RotoChocks for years but they are no longer available. A good substitute would be these Camco chocks or these Ultra-Fab chocks.
You could also make your own between the tire chocks as has been posted occasionally on the forums.
Homemade chocks
Homemade chocks #2
In any case, you need the between the tire chocks if you expect to chock both sides when using leveling boards as you did. You also need to always chock both sides of the trailer to prevent the trailer from moving as you lift the coupler off the ball when unhitching. It can get very exciting very quickly if it starts to pivot on the axles when that happens. :E
Barney
