Far Rear Landing Gear (From TapaTalk Forum)

Quadra Manufacturing makes a rear landing gear that would make our Big Foot system a six point system. I see how it would stabilize the rear of the trailer. Is anyone using this extra set of jacks, how do you like them?

When we are at a location for more than a few days we like the added stability of jacks at the far rear. I installed a pair of brackets on the frame as far back as possible. These allow for the installation of standard scissor jacks. Crank them down and everything is super stabile. The thing I really like is there is nothing hanging down while traveling or maneuvering into a site. Takes only a couple of minutes to install or remove and a lot cheaper than another pair of hydraulic jacks.

Traveler,

I don’t use the hydraulics you requested info on, but I don’t think you want an aftermarket rear hydraulic jack. Not sure if you have a rear skid plate or hitch, but you would not want the hydraulic jack to act like one. I do not have a skid plate or hitch, have never scraped my rear plastic cap, but have certainly come so close that my license plate was bent upward. My point is that to be effective it must be far to the rear of the existing bigfoot, but ground clearance disappears quickly back there, and piston throw needs to be longer/taller than bigfoot’s. The basement space above the lower frame is not very deep at the rear, so it will either hang down a lot or need to be a double throw piston. Yes, it will help but at tremendous cost, and likely to also need a stabilizer to be truly effective.

I installed a manual crank scissor jack near each rear corner. It significantly increased stability when walking around inside. In my mind, this is the single most effective solution to motion inside, followed by one or more stabilizers, left to right being most important if you use wheel chocks of any kind. I then added left to right JT Strongmans stabilizers (like Dutch & Di’s setup, just beefier. This made the inside rock solid, and leads me to believe that the rear electric legs would be a one piece solution.

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Why? Either scissor setup works for vertical bounce, fore/aft motion is pretty much eliminated with rotochocks or other wheel chocks or fore/aft stabilizers likt JT. However, manual screw down just don’t have left right integrity without the added stabilizers, whereas the design of the rear electric setup has it built in. I put left to right stabilizers on the front big foots first, but found them more useful for living room comfort if they are on the rear.

Lots of variables on inside stability, length ov overhang behind the rear axle, where you are walking, weight, sensitivity to motion, etc. I like no motion inside.

I would be very careful with putting to much upward pressure on the rear of the frame. I hit bottom once and I think I flexed the frame enough to put stress cracks on the lower left outside wall by the door side slideout.