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Old 08-25-2018, 09:38 AM   #1
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Which one for stabilization?

If you had to pick only 1 of these to stabilize a 24' trailer, which would it be?

1) Valterra RV Stabilizer: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...K6Y9EEQB&psc=1

2) Fastway OneStep Wheel Chock: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00...K6Y9EEQB&psc=1

3) Bal X-Chock: https://www.amazon.ca/BAL-28014-X-te...rds=balx+chock

4) Something else?

We aren't currently using anything else except plastic wheel chocks (which I hate) and our manual stabilizer jacks (with 8"x8"x 2" tall wood under them).

We camp 90% of the time on gravel (relatively level) and 10% on paved or really compact gravel.
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Old 08-25-2018, 10:09 AM   #2
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The first would require two, one for the front of the trailer and one for the rear. They would stop lateral motion and vertical motion at the extreme ends of the trailer. You will still have tire/spring bounce in the center of the trailer, depending on how stiff your frame rails are.

The second will do nothing to reduce suspension movement in the center of the trailer or for vertical movement at the ends of the trailer. It will reduce some lateral movement at the ends of the trailer by stopping the "roll motion" of the tires.

The third is really not much more than the second and works much the same way.

All will reduce "some of the movement" but none of them will make your trailer as "solid as a foundation based structure"....
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Old 08-25-2018, 10:54 AM   #3
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For stabilizing the trailer after tire chocks, levelling and the 4 crank down stabilizers I use X-Chocks between tires and screw jacks on each side of the frame. Helps but as John pointed out not a great foundation. It's still a big box sitting on rubber.
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Old 08-25-2018, 11:13 AM   #4
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