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04-25-2014, 02:44 PM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club
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Location: Arizona
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Chocking a motorhome.
I always try to use chocks when I set up, right before deploying levelers. Over the years I've seen how the buses at work tighten up overnight against the chocks we use, which suggests some level of movement.
While walking around RV parks I've never noticed another motorhome chocked. I've seen several TT using chocks of course. I wonder if anyone else uses them, and if not, why not?
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04-25-2014, 02:51 PM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club
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Location: Seeing the USA
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I never use them. I'm usually on level ground and really only use my jacks to stabilize the MH for the slide. Parking break and transmission should keep me from moving. If not I've got my power cord and water hose anchor's for back-up. ;-)
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2003 Winnebago Sightseer 30B
May the roads rise up to meet you, May the winds be always at your back...
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04-25-2014, 02:53 PM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Home on the hill in Georgia
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I have chocks just in case a tire may need to be changed. Never had a need to use them. Once the jacks are down, it ain't going anywhere so I don't chock when setting up.
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1999 Coachman Catalina Sport
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04-25-2014, 04:13 PM
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Location: Georgia
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I don't use them because I would never camp on a spot that we were worried about rolling.
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04-25-2014, 04:18 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Following the mild weather! (USA)
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I use them pretty much everywhere I go. Just a peace of mind thing maybe, but I leave them in my power cord bay so when I hook up to power, I just set them right there on each side of the back tire.
Sleep well that night....
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04-25-2014, 04:47 PM
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Administrator in Memoriam
Newmar Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's Spartan Chassis
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Location: Newark, DE
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Never used them. The air parking brake worked just fine.
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04-25-2014, 04:55 PM
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Location: Powell River, B.C.
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Always chock, the front in the direction of any possible roll, particularly if the site requires taking any weight of the rear axle.
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2000 Caravan toad, Remco & Blue Ox.
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04-25-2014, 04:55 PM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club
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I don't think it's so much a case of movement as it is of the tire sinking slightly into the ground due to weight thus pressing tightly up against the chock over night. It it was a case of movement 1 or the other chock would still be loose.
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04-25-2014, 04:56 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
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Location: SoCal
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Nope, don't chock.
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2011 Tiffin Phaeton 40QTH (Cummins ISC/Freightliner)
Flat towing a modified 2005 Jeep (Rubicon Wrangler)
Previously a 2002 Fleetwood Pace Arrow 37A and a 1995 Safari Trek 2830.
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04-25-2014, 05:01 PM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club
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Quote:
Originally Posted by D Lindy
I don't think it's so much a case of movement as it is of the tire sinking slightly into the ground due to weight thus pressing tightly up against the chock over night. It it was a case of movement 1 or the other chock would still be loose.
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No, it's a seriously thick concrete parking lot.
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04-26-2014, 08:01 AM
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Senior Member
Forest River Owners Club
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: ...East Texas
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There have been a few discussions of what happens when the air suspension looses air. When I dump the air on my Spartan MMGT chassis, the body shifts forward apx 6", and the wheels creep forward too. When I start it and re-inflate the air bags the body & wheels creep backward that same 6". It isn't "rolling", and it isn't going anywhere w/ the parking brakes locked down on the rear axle.
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2022 Coachmen Leprechaun 319MB
towing 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
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04-26-2014, 08:07 AM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Interesting to say the least......
Quote:
Originally Posted by AFChap
There have been a few discussions of what happens when the air suspension looses air. When I dump the air on my Spartan MMGT chassis, the body shifts forward apx 6", and the wheels creep forward too. When I start it and re-inflate the air bags the body & wheels creep backward that same 6". It isn't "rolling", and it isn't going anywhere w/ the parking brakes locked down on the rear axle.
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One fellow thought his brakes had a problem.........and were not holding...  Quite the conversation  You are correct in your explanation for this chassis.
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04-26-2014, 08:14 AM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: FTer Class of 2015 Origin: Evergreen, Colorado
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We don't chock, either. Not even sure that I still carry any, anymore. Figger the parking brake and the 4 jacks are going to keep me from rolling anywhere.
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04-26-2014, 08:31 AM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Kamloops, BC. Canada
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When I had a gasser MH I used the chocks.
With the air brakes on my DP I do not.
Have seen a lot of gas MH's with the jacks down
so far the front wheels are off the ground.
Have not seen chocks used on the rear when
they do this.
This could be a very expensive accident waiting to happen.
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