Dale M. wrote:If one is worried about front/back movement collapsing stabilizers, there is a really simple solution, WHEEL CHOCKS....
Dale
I do use wheel chocks. I also have a dish shaped chock for my tongue wheel. The kind of wobble I am referring to is subtle. It's not like an earthquake or anything. Even when immobilized, the tongue wheel shifts slightly at its axle and the trailer doesn't feel as rock solid as I would like.
As to the idea of no tongue wheel at all. 100lb of tongue weight would not be too much to lift easily when placing on a trailer ball, but if you are like me and you have to slide your trailer in and out of your garage all of the time, it will feel like a ton of weight. You would have to walk stooped over or lift the front of your trailer tongue up to about waist height. Depending on the geometry of your trailer, you could be scraping your galley across the pavement.
Perhaps one of those tongues jacks with a removable wheel that can be replaced with a pad would solve both issues. Or you could put jacks on the front of the trailer as well as the back. That's what I will do on my next trailer.
Actually, if you want to talk about a real problem. . .My tongue jack bolts on with four long bolts. No matter how hard I torque down on those bolts, the jack eventually starts working its way loose and I am left with a jack that no longer stands vertically. This is scratching my nice powder coated frame and keeping me from being a happy camper. The bolts don't go through holes in the tongue. Rather, there are two bolts above and two bolts below the frame. I think this is not a very good design. I should have had somebody weld a shaft onto the tongue that the jack could pivot on. . . Oh well, live and learn.
