Friday, February 16, 2018

Tips On How To Stabilize A Parked Travel Trailer

By Nancy White


Camping is supposed to be fun but will easily be ruined by a trailer that is unstable. Trailers save you the trouble of setting up a tented camp. It also delivers comfort and security because of the hard and solid body. Since camping grounds are usually uneven, most owners and campers have to deal with the challenge of how to stabilize a parked travel trailer.

Amateur campers wonder why a lot of attention is on stabilizing trailers. An unstable cabin will give you a nasty experience. It causes items you carried like glasses to break because of the swing. Other sections of your cabin like doors, drawers and slides malfunction because of instability. In the process of breaking, these cabin parts and items will injure occupants.

Instability extends the possibility of damage to the entire unit. When it sways too much to the side or up and down, the entire camper is likely to topple. Its weight and internal modifications will lead to extensive damage. You will also be caused to bear the cost of towing to the garage beyond ruining your camping expedition. Settle for a ground that is more solid and flat. There also are several ways you can use to achieve stability.

It is important to note that stabilizers are not supposed to hold any weight. Even by design and materials used in manufacture, they are meant to provide stability which enables you to avoid unnecessary swinging that affects how trailers are used. There are stabilizers available for sale or you can get a custom made stabilizer depending on the design of your cabin.

Trailers and most firth wheel cabins come with installed leveling systems. During fabrication of purchase, ensure that your unit comes with the necessary stabilizing tools. These tools include wooden blocks that are usually two by ten inches in dimension. The package includes four to eight blocks that are of different sizes. The blocks are used below the jack and stabilizer to prevent the jack from going under. If the stabilizer or jack digs into the ground, you will lose stability.

Stabilizers are built alongside cabins. By placing them strategically at the ends of the cabin and shaft connecting the cabin to the truck, they achieve perfect balance. If the cabin was not bought with ready levels, they can be custom made for you. They come with adjusting mechanisms to enable you change the height and orientation of your cabin to achieve stability depending on how the ground is leveled.

Achieve stability side by side before focusing on front and back. You will need to focus on the wheels as well as choose a ground that is relatively stable. Leveling blocks are used to lock wheels to prevent them from moving. When you have achieved side by side stability, you chock tries and brake the cabin in order to work on forward-backward stability.

Install the stabilizing jacks on both sides of your trailer and at the connecting shaft. Use boards to achieve the desired level, ensuring that the boards are properly maintained. Boards will prevent your jack from sinking into the soil. Do not place unnecessary weight or cause the trailer to swing unnecessarily. This will compromise all the efforts you have made to achieve stability.




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