Can the stabilizer jacks support the full weight?

I don't believe the jacks by themselves are the only issue. Sure you could lift the trailer by the existing or any number of other (some very expensive) jacks, but the rPod frame is not designed to be lifted by the corners - only the axle connection points. A bent rPod frame would not be a good thing.

Has anyone actually bent their frame lifting with the stabilizers? 

  Some people seem to think that what the manufacturer says about things like this are just CYA boilerplate that they are comfortable ignoring.  I figure the manufacturer knows something about what they are talking about.  I know you can usually get away with exceeding stated limits, but the cost in money and in feeling like an absolute idiot if, in this case, you do manage to bend the frame is just more than I want to risk.  Especially when it's so easy to level a pod without jacks (other than the tongue jack).  Really, you might have to pull up and back up two or three or even four times, and you have to carry some short boards (that come in handy on hot asphalt or soft ground anyway) but to me, that's not much effort compared to the cost and effort dealing with heavier duty lifting jacks, that, coming full-circle, might bend your frame.

I had a friend who had a motor-home with remote control leveling jacks.  He could sit in the driver's seat, twiddle some little toggle thingies while watching some bubbles until he had things where he wanted. I'm sure his ship had a heavier frame than an RPod.  That was really nice, but that's not the way pods work.

So, if it's your trailer, you can do what you want, but I don't care to chance it.

TT 

Originally posted by fwunder I thought religion and politics were best left to other venues. After finding the following thread I now see that leveling with stabilizers seems to be a religious argument.

Me, I'm new here but I'm just amazed that they would build the lightest trailer that they could and then load it onto a frame that would stay stiff when bearing the weight on two points in the middle, but will fold if that same weight is suspended from four points in the corners.