new levelling chocks

[delicagirl]

hi everyone i appear to have lost my chocks which were given to me by a kind neighbour .... i have looked on amazon for a new set and the variety of quality and price is huge..... what are the big issues i should consider when buying new ones..... do i need to measure my wheels? thanks

 

[mistericeman]

I gave up on plastic blocks last year and upgraded to a sele tion of timber block (recycled bits of the small pallets our aircon units are delivered on)

I carry half a dozen that give me a great range of lifts depending on how they are configured.

 

[trevskoda]

A good hard wood block split across 45 deg will do ,the plastic ones can be a bit skiddy on wet tarmac.
Also do carry a few bits of flat squires to build up jack height if required.

 

[witzend]

I got a pair like THESE but fixed a bit of 1/2" plywood along the bottom to protect them when using on stoney ground

No need to measure wheels their universal width ways

 

[yeoblade]

A good hard wood block split across 45 deg will do ,the plastic ones can be a bit skiddy on wet tarmac.
Also do carry a few bits of flat squires to build up jack height if required.

45 deg ? , maybe if you have a 4x4 !

I'd look for the tallest ones, you'll always find somewhere where they're not enough to level up

 

[jagmanx]

I lost my chocks as well

It makes wearing shoes very uncomfortable !

 

[caledonia]

Had my van for 7 years I always wild but never needed levelling ramp things. I’ve used the odd flat stone to drive onto but never felt the need to buy big lumps of plastic.

 

[phillybarbour]

A few pieces of wood for me, ex scaffolding planks cut down. Multi use, good under wheels on wet ground, also under bottle jack if needed, and use when securing scooter in garage.

 

[andyjanet]

Delicious It’s like a Chelsea tractor four wheel drive just stick a couple of wheels up on the kerb or a gras bank������
And if your worried about the shower not draining!
Go eau naturel shower outside I’m sure there’d b a q of blokes from on here volunteering to hold your towel��

 

[Wooie1958]

I use leveling chocks because when i put something on the worktop / table i like it to still be there when i go back to it and not to have slid off onto the floor.

 

[andyjanet]

I use leveling chocks because when i put something on the worktop / table i like it to still be there when i go back to it and not to have slid off onto the floor.

We use silicon mats, really good on the toilet seat to stop you slipping off when you’ve had a bit to drink

 

[Wooie1958]

We use silicon mats, really good on the toilet seat to stop you slipping off when you’ve had a bit to drink

You don`t need leveling chocks in your motorhome, don`t you just press a button and the staff do it for you :wacko:

 

[trevskoda]

45 deg ? , maybe if you have a 4x4 !

I'd look for the tallest ones, you'll always find somewhere where they're not enough to level up

I use them in front of wheel for holding van when jacking up back end as im rwd.

 

[Millie Master]

Over the past 40 or so years and having bought several different types of levelling chocs I gave up with all the commercially manufactured items as in the main they were useless!
So instead I bought myself a couple or so planks of 50 x 200mm tanalised heavy duty scaffolding planks and cut them off at varying lengths with a 45 degree angled leading edge, the individual lengths being stepped so that there is enough room on each step for the tyre/wheel to fit onto. I then drilled matching and in-line holes 75mm in from the trailing edge and inserted 15mm dowels that link/slot into the holes on the plank below.

We used to own 2 small sites in France and our wooden ramps came into use many times when visitors levelling chocs collapsed.

The other MAJOR advantage with levelling planks like mine is that they can be used for spreading weight when using the vans jack as well as levelling tables and a whole host of other uses.

 

[andyjanet]

You don`t need leveling chocks in your motorhome, don`t you just press a button and the staff do it for you :wacko:

Like all these fancy contraptions, electronic safety switches say past a certain angle you can’t put the levelling legs down, great but a pain sometimes you think it’s going to level out al the legs do there dancing up and down and just when you think that’s it the warning buzzer comes on that says! unstable retract legs and it does it automatically

 

[jagmanx]

We have the yellow blocks (came with the vehicle)

Not perfect but by and large do the job (of levelling).
I also have 4 wooden planks with grippy stuff underneath to use on softish ground.
These I mude up using a cut down door mat for the one pair and a dismembered plastic crate for the other pair.
All do the job but a bit cumbersome

 

[GeoffL]

I've only found one sort worth buying: the Millennium Trident. Small ones are not worth having: unless it's a long way off level, I don't bother. The quattro ramps (just as high) have four small wheel dips, too small for motorhome wheels to fit in. The Trident are the same height but with just three cups.
They have a solid base so they don't sink and they bend rather than splinter if overstressed.

If you mean "Milenco Trident", don't buy. I did and they failed at the first use (see pics):

 

[colinm]

If you mean "Milenco Trident", don't buy. I did and they failed at the first use (see pics):

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We've used the three step Milenco's for 8 years and had no problems, we have a 3.5t van which at times can be on it's limits, Collette's (iirc) 2.4t van should have no problems.

 

[korky]

Milenco Tridents here as well. 10yrs on and still going strong.

 

[GeoffL]

We've used the three step Milenco's for 8 years and had no problems, we have a 3.5t van which at times can be on it's limits, Collette's (iirc) 2.4t van should have no problems.

My levelling ramps were the "new, improved" version that were introduced a lot less than 8 years ago. (see Milenco's product page) Yours are probably up to the job, but the ones you can buy now are absolute garbage. They are supposed to be good for motorhomes up to 6 tonnes yet they failed at first use when mine was loaded up to less than 3.5 tonnes. I suspect they failed in part because the outside diameter of my tyres is larger than the diameter of the 'cups' in the levellers. I had a Pajero until last year and if the Delica has the same 265/70/R15 tyres, they're even larger than the ones on my moho and I suspect they'd destroy the levellers fairly quickly.