Parking the RV in the sand has always been an interesting prospect, as it tends to sink into the sand on one side or the other. This gets frustrating as the RV starts torquing itself as one corner sinks.
I had previously attempted to make a platform for the RV out of a 2×12, but it didn’t work out that well. Not to mention when we set it up, we were rushed at night after a long day of driving to get back to Florida. This led to a suboptimal setup. The boards weren’t really long enough or wide enough to accommodate the RV if it wasn’t perfectly lined up. Of course, as soon as I backed the RV onto the boards, they moved, and the RV was carving channels in the soft sand which complicated it further.
This was one of the metal feet for the hydraulic jacks that bent when the 2×12 board gave way under the weight of the RV. It was a less than stable platform.
I replaced the jack pad and placed my new footers for the jacks.
The new jackpads are constructed out of two 2 x 10 segments with a second layer of 2x10s running the opposite direction. This gives the rig a little elevation boost as well as greatly increasing the surface area the weight is spread over. This should, hopefully, reduce the sinking effect in the sand.