Do you jack your AS up for the winter?

[paiceman]

My father and mother had a 1972 30', had it for twenty years or so, traveled about 200,000 miles, trailer sat for about six months every year. Never jacked up, no axles replaced etc no issues at all.

[CRH]

Not counting the AS, I have close to 30 tires on the ground that don't get moved for 30+ days at a time. I have never imagined jacking anything up and spinning them 180 degrees. Never done it. Never will....never had a flat spot.

[ROBERT CROSS]

Originally Posted by paiceman

My father and mother had a 1972 30', had it for twenty years or so, traveled about 200,000 miles, trailer sat for about six months every year. Never jacked up, no axles replaced etc no issues at all.

Originally Posted by CRH

Not counting the AS, I have close to 30 tires on the ground that don't get moved for 30+ days at a time. I have never imagined jacking anything up and spinning them 180 degrees. Never done it. Never will....never had a flat spot.

TETO.....


Bob

[ijustlee]

Yes, usually jack the tires off the ground when I expect to stay for a long time. I thought that dirt rotting tires was an old wives tale until I lived in a spot where the dirt was red clay with decomposing shale mixed in. I think I was there about three years and all 4 tires had rotten spots. The dirt on the tires and where they sat had turned sort of blue so something leached out of the rubber. I don't know how common this is, probably pretty rare. Even on that type of dirt might have been OK for a few months.

[RangerJay]

The answer is no - but having said that - I do remove accumulations of snow from the roof - not worried about the axles at all - but in this part of the world I don't like the weight on the roof .....


Jay

[dannydimitt]

Our Safari lives in an enclosed barn with no windows or skylights with the the Michelin tires off the ground , with the front being supported with the tongue jack and the rest of the weight resting on automotive jack stands .
The lifting at the rear of the trailer is done with a floor jack under the rear skid bars one side at a time . This would not be a recommended procedure on most AS trailers as the frame is very weak . So weak that I was forced to design , fabricate and install an inverted truss system to the entire length of the frame allowing the enactment of the jacking procedure mentioned above.
This is done upon arrival at home from any outing and remains in this state until the next trip . My feeble mind reasons that while on the tires and in motion 100 % of all force is being used to force the hubs upward and twisting the rubber in the axle tubes in that direction with any hardening of the rubber over time in this upward position , so my feeble mind tells me that if the rubber is going to eventually harden up that it should harden up in the wheels off the ground position instead of gradually lowering the trailer closer to the ground while towing .
These are simply my thoughts on the subject , backed up by nothing more than decades of dealing with all things mechanical.
Have Fun !

[Silver.Sanctuary]

These won't work on a square torflex axle. A torflex axle can only be jacked up on the steel flange, never the tube as this effects the axle alignment.

Can you explain this? The steel flange an never the tube?

[IanPoulin]

The problem I would have with jacking it up in the wintertime is it prevents me from going camping during the wintertime.

:-P

Ian