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We almost never use the jacks on the trailer. I almost always use the Anderson levelers at every stop. The jacks will do the job just fine but I find the AL to be much more convenient and easier to use and they will stabilize the trailer much better when it needs to be lifted several inches off of the ground while camping. I weigh 250 pounds and the Oliver is so stable that I feel very little movement in the trailer when it's up on the AL. We did have one of our jacks fail while in Alaska and while the trailer was under full warranty. Oliver called and made an appointment with a large RV shop, overnighted the jack to them and had jack replaced PDQ. As a side note, the dealer in Alaska said that they had never ever worked with an RV manufacturer that was so determined to make a customer happy. They were extremely impressed with the trailer and the Oliver company and so were we. We own 4 Anderson Levelers and sometimes keep our trailer in a storage facility that is mostly gravel and grass and use one under each of the 4 tires when it is parked for several months. Of course, we only carry two AL with us when we travel. We have owned two Oliver Travel Trailers. As always just my opinion. Hap As in Happy just to be here.

This is the most extreme I've done and would do, if more is required I would change location. What can't be seen is that I also use the 6x6s for leveler support. As stated, this way the jack doesn't need to fully extend, and weaken the system. Oliver's recommendation is that lifting the trailer OFF the tires is for maintenance and emergency and not for leveling, like a CLASS A would be. I agree that doing so would greatly decrease stability. Generally weighing 200 lbs and on the tires, you can feel it walking around, so just enough pressure on the levelers to remove the shock/spring compression (bounce) works well for us. I will end up with some of the Andersen levelers this season, I have found the stackable Lego ones difficult above 2 or 3 due to the spacing between the tires and "ramping" them to get on them. Edited

It would be nice to get some clarification on this from Oliver even though I firmly believe that with some common sense, using the levelers as, well, levelers, should be perfectly fine. I like the standard lego blocks as a base for the jacks if for no other reason than they're so much lighter than wood, but I wish they were wider. Stacking up two sets of those under a jack, as I've seen some do, gives you a plinth that's 20" tall by only 8.5" wide . That may be fine if you're just using them as a stabilizer to keep from extending the jack too far, but if you do end up with a wheel off the ground it seems like it would be unsteady to me. Especially so if the plinth ends up leaning due to the slope of the site. Something I'm probably going to do instead of getting the regular 2 x 2 blocks, is to get the 4 x 2 levelers like these. Those will provide a sturdier support at least in one direction, so if you are on a sloped site you could place the plinth with the longer axis pointing down hill. Better still, I could get two sets, cut the ends off of one, then use those ends on the other set so that I can make a crisscrossed X shape that's 17" in each direction. I could still use the 2 x 2 centers from the set I cut the ends off of, either for one of the other jacks, or on top of the X I made, for a total of 20". That way, in an extreme situation, I wouldn't have to extend the jack so much, and would have a much sturdier base underneath. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about stacking up 20" worth of blocks and then extending the jack all the way up so that the wheel is two feet off the ground on a 50% grade. Just stacking up the blocks like Canoe12 is saying to keep from having to extend the jacks all that much which should not only be sturdier for the trailer but place less stress on the jacks.

Canoe12, Purchased an 18" 1/2" drive Breaker Bar from Harbor Freight, keep it with a short extension and 3/4" deep well socket for Ollie lug nuts.