storing tc on slope?

Thanks everyone! I think we are just going to put it at a storage place that is right down the road from us.

I store mine on a cement garage floor that drops 12.5 inches in 30 feet across. The truck camper is level and each jack is at a different height. It sits like this for at least 48 weeks out of the 52 in a year and sometimes more. As you can see in my SIG that it just makes it under the top of the metal garage. Except being out in the weather at the dealers lot before I bought it has been out in the rain 1 day at Mardi Gras 2012. The rest of the time, for 3 years so far, it has been high and dry every day of it's life except for that 1 day. On a slope, as long as it's not a big slope should be no problem. I don't see any numbers so we know how much the slope is. Hope this helps.

Good morning TraciK,

Here is what I use because my driveway slopes in not one direction, but two. Each leg is adjusted independently. As seen in the picture the difference in height is around 6-8" from front to back.



How I unload in my sloping driveway is as follows:

I first lower all the jacks, but don't let any touch the ground yet. I then lower the drivers side front jack to level the camper left to right. I then lower the passenger front jack so it is just touching and then I engage both front jacks to bring the camper to a level plane. I then extend the rear jacks so they are both just touching and then raise all four jacks until I can drive the truck out. I slide the base under and re-level all four corners of the base and lower the camper down to share the weight between the jacks and the base.

In regards to unloading in your sloped driveway, depending on the slope of course, I would build some ramps for the front castors of your dolly to sit on. The top of the ramp I think should have a pocket for the castor to nest into with a wheel chock on the downward side to prevent the castors from being able to roll out of the ramp pocket.

Hope this helps some,

WestCoast1969

Actually, it's BETTER to store the camper sloped some, so rain water will run off the roof rather than pooling.

RichieC wrote:
The problem with a slope is that when the camper lifts off the truck bed it lifts one edge off first.
The remaining weight that is still in contact with the truck bed is on one edge of the camper.

That will result in the camper frame sustaining it's weight on one edge of the frame.
Campers really are not built for repeated use in that manner.

Even worse is if the camper is lifted slightly off level which then places the camper weight more toward one corner of the camper frame!

It is important to keep the truck bed and camper bottom surface in as near to a parallel plane as is possible when lowering or lifting the camper.

I'm sure that there are many posters that will avow as to how they've done it on a slope without problem.
Its a simple caution and your's to evaluate.

yes, we do keep it parallel when lowering or lifting and try to keep it level. Dh is on one side cranking and I'm on the other.

MKish wrote:
It can sit on your creeper/dolly, right? As long as you chock the wheels really well (and level it on the jacks before starting up the fridge), I don't think it has to be level. Level on the jacks, yes. But if the dolly has a platform and supports the floor, I don't know why level is needed. I would of course be nervous enough to have the cabover pointing UPhill.

We wouldn't be running the refrig. I was wondering why it would be so important that is so level. However we would try to level it out as much as we could. Yes, we did plan on keeping it on the dolly. I think add some pallets to the low side to help level it. We can't have the cabover uphill there would be no way to get it in like that.

The problem with a slope is that when the camper lifts off the truck bed it lifts one edge off first.
The remaining weight that is still in contact with the truck bed is on one edge of the camper.

That will result in the camper frame sustaining it's weight on one edge of the frame.
Campers really are not built for repeated use in that manner.

Even worse is if the camper is lifted slightly off level which then places the camper weight more toward one corner of the camper frame!

It is important to keep the truck bed and camper bottom surface in as near to a parallel plane as is possible when lowering or lifting the camper.

I'm sure that there are many posters that will avow as to how they've done it on a slope without problem.
Its a simple caution and your's to evaluate.

It can sit on your creeper/dolly, right? As long as you chock the wheels really well (and level it on the jacks before starting up the fridge), I don't think it has to be level. Level on the jacks, yes. But if the dolly has a platform and supports the floor, I don't know why level is needed. I would of course be nervous enough to have the cabover pointing UPhill.

Its not side to side, its front to back. I can take pictures with my phone but not sure how to post them here. I just don't want the thing to go rolling down the drive way! lol We do keep our flat bed trailer there though and have never had a problem but of course it does not weight what a tc does.

Traci, my TC is stored on a slight side to side incline... It's fairly level, but not too bad. You could always try to install some "blocks" or some sort of a barrier and fill it in to level things out a bit.

Pictures might help with suggestions of what to do.

Later
C