I promised I would share a video (or two) showing how those red rolling ramps work to lift one side of an RV to make it level, side-to-side … or to lift one tire high enough that the other tire (on the same side of the vehicle) is far enough off the ground that you can change a tire without jacking up the trailer. So … here are the videos.
This first video below shows how to use the normal sized rolling ramps (“Camper Leveler”) … and shows how much easier these ramps are than stacking those static blocks (take a look at the most recent blog post and look at the fourth photo from the top to see the time I had to use 18 static blocks that were about 6 feet in length! to raise both tires/axles only about 3.5 inches). These red rolling ramps will lift each tire up to 4 inches and can be purchased individually or in groups of two or three (or more), depending on how many axles you want to lift. I bought two of them since my trailer has two axles … two tires on each side of the trailer. Whether using the static blocks or these rolling ramps, these devices allow us to lift one side of the RV in order to level our rigs from side-to-side, left-to-right … once that is done, we unhitch the tow vehicle and then level the rig fore-aft or front-to-back using the tongue jack at the very front of the rig. Easy as pie.
This next video shows the use of the BIG rolling ramp (the “Rapid Jack”) that you can use when you need to change a flat tire. It will lift one tire (of a two or three axle system) almost 6″. The video also shows other uses of either type of these ramps. I bought one Rapid Jack for use if I ever have a flat tire on my trailer.
Because the axles on my Escape trailer are so close together, I cut a portion off the small nose end of one of the normal size ramps so I could fit a ramp under both tires on one side of the trailer. Lots of folks have done that with no problem, me too.
I love these Andersen ramps. On the rare occassion when I need to lift one side of the trailer more than 4″, then I use the static blocks, or just a couple of boards on which I place the Andersen rolling ramps.
Ok, the next blog post will continue on with my camping trip to Mossyrock … coming soon!! Keep level-headed, use Andersen levelers! 🙂