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riotkayak284 View Drop Down

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Topic: Leveling blocks vs Tri-leveler
Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 2:48pm

Give me old-school wood 2x6, they work every time!!!!

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Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 6:48pm

Have you checked out Andersen levelers. Simple and easy ifyour out of level is 4" or less across the R Pod.

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Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 8:06pm

Originally posted by StephenH

Originally posted by Happy Tripping

...chocks made from 2X4s, a roughly 20 inch long crossbar with 10 inch lengths at each end splayed out.

A ... more thorough description would help.

I'll try - The shape is a 'V' with a crossbar, the tire resting between the arms of the 'V'. The degree of 'splaying out' of the short lengths is predicated on the width of your tire, immediately adjacent to the leading edge of the 2X4 crossbar. Too short and it pinches the tire, too wide and its unnecessarily wide. The crossbar is raised above floor level on the short lengths of 2X4 and is the part that actually blocks the tire.

Now that I think about it, pointing the open end of the 'V' AWAY from the tire might, from an engineering standpoint, actually be more effective. I'm not an engineer. The person who originally described it said that it was used without problems on parked private airplanes in winds, my version works and is certainly inexpensive, but it is both bulky and heavy, so now I just use the orange things.

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Posted: 22 Mar 2017 at 8:36pm

I am with you Happy, the orange blocks are quite simple to use. I park the pod where I plan to unhook. I place my level on the floor parallel to the way I enter inside. By picking up the low side of the level I can tell how many block's I need to add just by seeing how many inches I have picked up the low side of the level until the bubble is dead center level. If it is 3" low I need 3" of blocks and so on. By using this method I nearly always spot on level after the first try.

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