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The Vicar

07/4/2014 at 4:41pm
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Been away for the weekend and noticed many caravanners are using their corner steadies to level the caravan. They are not designed to do this and will damage your caravan/chassis. Please spread the word !!!!

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07/4/2014 at 5:35pm
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It is also very hard work watching some of them struggle with it.

Level it using the jockey wheel for fore & aft and wheel chocs for side to side.

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07/4/2014 at 7:33pm
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It also amazes me how many people wind the jockey wheel up off the ground after setting up.

Some of the vans in our storage also have the jockey wheel up off the ground.

Lainey7071

07/4/2014 at 7:40pm
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Oh thanks for posting this, we are going on our 1st outing tomorrow in our van and we didn't realise this, I'm nervous to what else we could do wrong now with our lack of experience :-(

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Some years ago when I was looking to buy a caravan I went to look at one which was lovely and just what I was looking for until I noticed one of the steadies was not down. When I looked underneath the reason was clear...the floor of the caravan had a big hole in it where the steady had broken through. The seller just said, 'Ah, yes...forgot to mention that'.

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07/4/2014 at 8:12pm
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We've seen so many people doing this. Thing is I'd never go across and say anything for fear of coming across as a right busy body!

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As I came out of the caravan storage last week I noticed a caravan stored with it's wheels taken off, jacked up on it's legs and no jockey wheel !

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What about people that use a 'powerful' cordless driver?

They let it keep winding even after the leg's down, I've seen some try and level with it, other's don't realise
YOUR LEG'S DOWN - YOU CAN STOP NOW!!!

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This has been mentioned on several posts before regarding not using the 4 steadies as lifting jacks. The steadies are named for exactly what they are, for support and to stop the caravan rocking when walking inside and nothing more. If you look underneath the caravan you will find that the steadies are fixed directly to the wooden floor and not the steel chassis so it's obvious that any excessive pressure will press upwards on the floor and timber will always surrender to abuse before steel ever will. It's always good advice as well to anyone buying second hand as they always seem to think that the main enemy is damp whereas any previous inexperienced caravanner could have used the steadies as jacks so even if you buy a damp proof caravan the floor may give major problems before rain water ever will. It's worth noting before buying.

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07/4/2014 at 9:23pm
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An inexperienced fife-bloke made this mistake with my first caravan, and actually broke the steady. It still went up and down but wouldn't work with the winder, it just lifted up and down with my hand.
Declared it when I sold it and it didn't put anyone off, I could have sold it ten times over

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andyfisher

07/4/2014 at 10:10pm
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CC course instructor: "Down to the ground and once more round."

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07/4/2014 at 11:45pm
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Quote: Originally posted by agri on 07/4/2014
As I came out of the caravan storage last week I noticed a caravan stored with it's wheels taken off, jacked up on it's legs and no jockey wheel !

Well - thats one way to stop your van being stolen.

1) It has no wheels
2) It's probably knackered.

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07/4/2014 at 11:47pm
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Quote: Originally posted by andyfisher on 07/4/2014
CC course instructor: "Down to the ground and once more round."

LOVE IT -

Whatamess

08/4/2014 at 7:08am
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The instructions for our folding camper said once the steady had touched the ground, give it one more half turn.

I find I also sometimes needed to do another half turn or so after about 24 hours if pitched on grass.

Nora

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08/4/2014 at 8:52am
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i use a powerdrill, but the clutch is set to "3", so it does exactly the same as down to the ground and once more.

so there is no way i can over tighten.
the drill is quite good as if we are on soft ground i can do a quick tighten if they sink in the night, which often happens.

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08/4/2014 at 10:53am
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Quote: Originally posted by clever on 07/4/2014
It also amazes me how many people wind the jockey wheel up off the ground after setting up.

Some of the vans in our storage also have the jockey wheel up off the ground.

We wind up our jockey wheel once the caravan is level and the steadies down as this helps settle the caravan. We then lower it so that it is touching the ground.
If on soft soil, we will raise it again, do a turn or two on steadies again to stop caravan rocking and then lower jockey wheel again.

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