Grit dog
Black Diamond, WA
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mellow wrote:I can for a fact say don't use the yellow jack pads, the jacks slide on the plastic. Never had an issue with 2x12's cut at 1ft length under each jack.
Good advice.
Any sort of stout scrap lumber will suffice.
Dimensional lumber usually becomes kindling wood after a while when it splits. But I use what’s on hand.
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Grit dog
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SoonDockin wrote:Well I happen to have part of a sheet of 3/4" plywood. I can cut 8 12x12 pieces and use two under each foot. Thanks for all the help. Never having set it on anything but concrete and seeing all the rain they have been getting I just wanted to be sure it was not going to sink.
Understandable and my first reply tripped the sarcasm meter too much.
But unless you’re trying to crib it up in a pile of duck sht or a peat bog it’ll be fine. Even a single layer of 3/4plywood as long as it’s not osb.
And if it’s really soft it may settle a bit and you can level it back up in like 2 minutes.
Not to be a nancy, but we used our AF campers off the truck a lot. No issue except once with the older one, the fw tank supports cut loose. They were a little cheezier than I’d given them credit for. I did have to repair that.
But unless your camper belly is looking very pregnant that is not a concern either.
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markowwes
Vegreville, Ab. Canada
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Quite often we leave our camper sitting at a site for long periods, I have made some pads made of 12” X 12” X ¾” plywood to put under and on top of a scissor jack. The system works perfect, good support under the floor and the jacks only have to stabilize the camper not support it.
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brholt
Seattle
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If you remove your camper a lot one option is these:
Snap pads
The disadvantage is you will be a bit more likely to drag a jack going through ditches and stuff. ( Don’t ask me how I know about doing that in an AF1150)
One thing we use is the orange “caps” for the “Lego”levelers. Little story. We had the camper sitting on the pads on a concrete driveway. It was backing up to line up the truck with the camper before raising up the camper. We have a flat cargo carrier in the back hitch (carry a screen room and an outdoor mat in it). My wife was watching but “zoned out” for a moment and I went to far. The carrier hit the rubber stops on the camper. The camper just slid an inch back on the Orange caps. No damage, nothing bent, and we raised it up and loaded it.
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