Hi. I'm just getting round to kitting out our caravan but am I missing something or is my age creeping up on me? I thought that when you pitched a caravan (to put it simply) you put it in place then (if needed) pulled it onto a ramp on the lower side until it was level side to side. Then you used the jockey wheel to level front to back. Finally, you put the steadies down to stop it tilting as you walk about inside. The question is: When would you ever need TWO levellers? They seem only to be sold in pairs, but I can't see why you would ever need two unless they stack somehow to give additional height. Or is one a spare in case you break the other?
Pete
PS: I can see the need for two if you have a motorhome
I always thought they came in twos to make us single axel caravanners get what we don't need. On a site last year the slope was such that I had to try one leveller on top of the other and it worked to a point till the motor mover trapped on the leveller and the van would not move high enough to get level!!! Rode around the site to find a better pitch.
Phil
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Likewise. But I carry 4 levellers and some wooden blocks and 2 wheel chocks. Then if one side is high I use them under the steadies one side as well. The stepped levellers are best but a bit bigger.
Levellers come in pairs for motorhome use. For caravan use some lock together one on top of 'tother to raise 'van higher or you can run van right up one leveller then push other one in, other way round to create a firmer base & avoid parking 'van, handbrake on.
You could of course sell the spare leveller on ebay or the forsale section of this website.
No real point in buying levellers for a caravan tho, just carry planks of wood with ends sawn at angle & strips of glass paper glued on for grip, use 2 together to get more height.
We've bought a pair of levellers as our awning is very slightly too big - someone on here suggested raising the height of the van to take up the slack rather than have the awning altered. I thought it was a cracking idea altho we've yet to try it.
I have used a pair of ramps with my caravan quite often and the reason being is that the official awning size was a 770 cm. which is an odd size so I had to purchase a 780 cm. then put the caravan on ramps to take up the slack. If I used the caravan for a weekend without the awning then I didn't need both ramps, maybe just one if the ground was uneven. I could have gone for a 750 cm. awning but was advised to go one bigger rather than one smaller otherwise there may have been gaps between awning and ground. Without the use of both ramps the awning would have been slack and would be difficult to operate the door zips.
For the first time in 6 different types of unit, we have done away with the ramp levelling sytem and gone for a Kojack Leveller.
Two reasons for this. Our new unit, an FC, is tight on space and weight. Of the 3 parts to the Kojack, two of the parts are bolted to the chassis and as for weight, well we need a jack anyway, so we may as well have one that does more than one job.
Ramps are only fit for one job and we have only rarely had to use them yet they take up an awfy lot of room.
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Topic: Levellers
