View Poll Results: Who puts their stabilizers down during winter storage?
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11-30-2015, 08:34 AM
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#1
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Bartonville
Posts: 513
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Stabilizers in Winter Storage
Just polling and asking the question . . . who puts their stabilizers down when they put their trailer to bed for the winter? I have always been advised to not do that, because over the cold months, tires lose air pressure and more weight gets transferred to the stabilizers - sometimes more than is recommended. I have not done this for any of the trailer's I've owned, but I have observed some that do.
But just wanting to see what others do, the reasons why or why not, and what their experiences have been, either way.
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2015 Jay Flight 32RLDS Elite
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11-30-2015, 09:06 AM
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#2
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 9,766
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Mine are up for the reason you stated.
On my way to my parents place, I can see three TTs, in one neighborhood, where there are three TTs, visible from the highway, that all have there stabilizers down all winter.
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11-30-2015, 11:10 AM
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#3
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Tulsa
Posts: 170
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Keep mine up. Not worth the risk.
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11-30-2015, 11:12 AM
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#4
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Saskatoon Sask Canada
Posts: 10,720
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When I stored mine the stabilizers were always up.. 4 less points for mice to get at the underbelly.
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11-30-2015, 01:40 PM
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#5
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Sparwood, BC
Posts: 2,800
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I place four HD Jacks under the TT chassis just to clear the tires from the boards they sit on.
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11-30-2015, 01:44 PM
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#6
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Duxbury
Posts: 7,113
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Keep them up for the same reasons everyone else has mentioned
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11-30-2015, 01:46 PM
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#7
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Campbell Hall
Posts: 2,835
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Always installed 1 stabilizer on the old trailer whenever it was parked. All 4 if expected to be used.
Since this new one has 4 easy to deploy stabilizers, I always use all 4. Mice and other varmints have plenty of options anyway and it is parked on grass. Everything sinks!
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11-30-2015, 02:04 PM
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#8
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Near St Louis
Posts: 474
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Leave mine down all year long..
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11-30-2015, 02:23 PM
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#9
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: north az
Posts: 305
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Leave mine down just enough to keep the t/t steady in heavy winds.
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11-30-2015, 03:02 PM
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#10
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Winnipeg
Posts: 942
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I keep ours down when the trailer is at home, but up during the winter when it's at the storage yard. The yard manager says they won't move the trailer from where they tell me to park it, but if they do I don't want to take the risk that they will damage the stabilizers unknowingly.
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& Sierra, the little white monster
2013 Ford F-150 XTR SC Ecoboost
2015 Jayco Jay Flight 24FBS
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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11-30-2015, 03:08 PM
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#11
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: SE Wisconsin
Posts: 3,430
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Quote:
Originally Posted by arkhillbilly
Leave mine down just enough to keep the t/t steady in heavy winds.
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Same reason I put mine down. I found that I lose no more than 5 psi over a winter. Makes very little difference in height. I've been doing it this way with 3 different trailers over more than a 20 year period.
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2013 Jayco Jayfeather X20 E (sold)
2016 Chevy Silverado LTZ 2 Z71 Crew Cab (sold, and dearly missed)
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12-01-2015, 11:51 AM
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#12
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Southwest Alberta
Posts: 116
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I now store my EXP 213 with the jacks down. We store our trailer in our driveway which happens to sit crossways to the prevailing wind. Where we live it is always windy with gusty 100 kph winds very common (chinooks). When I stored the trailer with the jacks up it would rock in the wind gusts and you could actually watch an oscillating movement begin which would move the whole trailer. The final straw came when I came home one day during a particularly strong chinook and found that the trailer had moved about six feet almost to the point where it went over the edge of the retaining wall on the downwind side of the driveway. I now store the trailer on the upwind side of the driveway with the jacks down and it has never moved. I do keep a close eye on the tires.
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2010 Jayco EXP 213
2008 GMC Sierra 2500 SLE Z71
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12-02-2015, 01:38 AM
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#13
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Twin Falls
Posts: 930
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When I could park the trailer in my driveway I put the stabilizers down, of course this is cause it was my man cave and beer cooler, but now I have to store it in a storage lot, I find there is no advantage to dropping the stabilizers, as is, I can hook up and drive away easier, no need to run the electric motors
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