front jack extension limit

[John and Debbie]

Hi all, I use yellow Camco jack stands and a couple 2×4 pieces on top for a slip surface on all three jack stands.  I park the trailer by the garage and there's a slight downwards slope to where that gravel drive meets up with the road.  The rear jacks only need to extend a couple inches, but the front jack extends 12 inches out to the jack stand/2×4 pieces to get to level.  Is that too far?  Obviously, the less travel the better, but when I back the trailer into the spot, one jack stand and one layer of two 2×4 on top are all that will fit while hooked up.

John

[mossemi]

1 hour ago, John and Debbie said:

Is that too far?  Obviously, the less travel the better, but when I back the trailer into the spot, one jack stand and one layer of two 2×4 on top are all that will fit while hooked up.

As a general rule, I wouldn’t like that much jack extension, but when I am camping I will except less than favorable conditions.

Your scenario seems to be a long term condition, so I would find a solution to minimize the jack extension.  A thought that comes to mind is to build 2 ramps out of different lengths of 2x6 or 2x8 boards and back the tow vehicle onto the ramps which will raise the tongue and create room for more wood under the jack pad

Mossey

 

[John and Debbie]

1 hour ago, mossemi said:

As a general rule, I wouldn’t like that much jack extension, but when I am camping I will except less than favorable conditions.

Your scenario seems to be a long term condition, so I would find a solution to minimize the jack extension.  A thought that comes to mind is to build 2 ramps out of different lengths of 2x6 or 2x8 boards and back the tow vehicle onto the ramps which will raise the tongue and create room for more wood under the jack pad

Mossey

 

I do have two red auto ramps.  I wonder how hard it would be to hook up using those to get the hitch up that high.  It would be easy to use those to unhook though.  Maybe reworking the gravel pad to make it more level, just thinking outloud.

John