Jason Foster

I'm usually pretty careful not to pick sites with bad slopes, but it can always happen regardless of careful planning.

NEVER!!!

That sounds like fun. If our old house ever sells, we might be able to go do some fun stuff as well. Economy. uhgg.

Morning lows in east Texas have been mid 50s but it climbs to lower 90s by afternoon. I worked outside yesterday and got heat exhaustion. Not fun. Better today, but I limited my time out there and drank lots of water.

Makes sense. However, if I was in a place where I needed to leave quickly, I'd just forgo the jacks and sleep on the slant. I think I prefer the northern country anyway. Or at least somewhere cooler. I'm really tired of the heat.

I haven't had much of a chance to use mine since Christmas, but I leave the bathroom door open. I just noticed it was difficult to close on the bottom. I haven't checked the hinge, but I can't imagine it is due to overuse wear and tear.

I'm sorry everyone had to go through this. There are never good answers to why, but there are always good people willing to help. My wife and I live far enough inland not to be affected by hurricanes but they do spawn some horrendous thunderstorms and vicious tornados. I will put my prayer up to God for all of you who were hit hard and those who are helping. God bless.

I use these as well but I put a piece of rubber between the jack plates and the blocks.

No one but me drives my truck with the Oliver attached, so I'm not concerned about taking off with the jack plates down. In fact, I don't put the jacks down if my truck is attached. I have a procedure I follow every time I set up and tear down.

I don't know the torque specs but I would just use loctite and snug the bolt reasonably tight while using a strap wrench to hold the tube. It doesn't really have to be that tight and the loctite will do the trick.

I have never heard of anybody damaging these either, but I have always been an Abundance-of-caution type of guy that just can't allow camp time to be marred by the unlikely breaking, or bending, of a jack tube. Because, lets be clear, if it can happen, it will happen to me. Even saying this, I use them exclusively to level the trailer as long as all four tires can touch the ground. Once they hang, they get blocked.

Airstream. Yuck.

Thanks for including these. The memories. lol

Mine does that until the air purges from that gas line. Always happens when I change out bottles.

The manual on our 2014 Ram doesn't mention "recommended" or "required". The only thing it has is the definition of a weight distribution hitch.