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Originally Posted by cire74
As far as the swing tongue on the trailer, aren't loads already being exerted on it when a trailer is being stored with the swing tongue open?
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As well as I can recall (it has been about 15 years), THIS IS A NO-NO! You do whatever you can do / must do with the swing tongue closed. Then, when the trailer is positioned where you want it, you lower the stabilizer jacks until they take the weight. Then you raise the tongue jack. Only now can you open the swing tongue. You store the trailer with the weight on the front stabilizers, not on the open tongue.
The original RockyMountainRay did it the way you suggest, and apparently got away with it a few times before his welds cracked. But that is a big price to pay, just to save the little bit of effort required to drop the jacks.
The Owner's Manual does not address the swing tongue, but unless you can get the factory to certify that it is OK, I wouldn't stress those welds in a direction they were not designed to accept.
Bill