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Why does nobody talk about setting the outriggers on the pads before you even unfold
I watched a guy in Tacoma spend 45 minutes leveling his rig with the floats sunk 6 inches into soft dirt, and it could have been skipped if he'd just checked the ground first. Takes two minutes with a shovel to probe the spot, and I've never had a cribbing sink since I started doing it. Anyone else got a pre-setup check they swear by?
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brookefox10h ago
You think two minutes with a shovel is gonna save you every time? I've dug plenty of test holes that looked fine and then watched a pad sink anyway once real weight hit it, because the top few inches of dirt don't tell you what's going on two feet down. Soft ground isn't the only problem either, I've had crap settle on what looked like solid packed gravel after a rain. The outrigger pads themselves matter more than people want to admit, and no amount of poking the ground fixes a pad that's too small for the load. Leveling isn't wasted time if you're doing it right, the issue is guys cranking floats down into muck and calling it done. Probing the spot is a decent habit but treating it like a cure-all is how you get surprised.
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