Moving TM in garage and leveling

We are planning on ordering a 2720SL this week. In preparation, we are reorganizing our garage so there is more room to store it.

I believe we should be able to back it into our garage without a problem. Once inside the garage, I was hoping we could unhitch it, jack it up with the scissor jacks, slip vehicle skates under the tires, undo the jacks, and slide the TM a foot or two to the side. I was planning on using 2 commercial vehicle skates that are rated for moving a 3 ton vehicle. I don't think we need something to back it in, just for sliding it over. After moving it, we would jack it back up and remove the skates.

Would this work? Can the scissor jacks be used to raise the TM up high enough to get vehicle skates under the tires (5" or so)?

What is the best way to store the TM in the garage? I've read that you want to keep the weight off the tires. Can you do this by just using the scissor jacks high enough to barely take the weight off? I assume you still use wheel chocks for safety.

Also I looked at the threads discussing leveling the TM at a campsite. I like the idea of the BAL tire leveler. I assume you jack up the TM, slide the leveler under the low side, and then use the tire leveler to adjust the sideways level. Is this the correct procedure for using a tire leveler. I assume you then adjust the jacks for front-back level and stabilizing.

Originally Posted by CrazyCampers

Can the scissor jacks be used to raise the TM up high enough to get vehicle skates under the tires (5" or so)?

What is the best way to store the TM in the garage? I've read that you want to keep the weight off the tires. Can you do this by just using the scissor jacks high enough to barely take the weight off? I assume you still use wheel chocks for safety.

1st question: Interesting idea, but I doubt it. I can only get mine about an inch or so off the ground.

2nd question: I lower the tongue, which raises the rear. Then lower the rear jacks. Then raise the tongue, which raises the front. Then lower the front jacks. This will allow the wheels to be slightly off the ground. Since the TM is not on the wheels, it is unlikely to roll! But I use the wheel chocks anyhow.

Hmmmm. What about if we put blocks of wood under the jacks? Wouldn't that let you raise the tires higher?

Trying to find a solution...

[ELM-JLM]

A few pictures of the garage opening and the storage area would open a lot of suggestions! Visuals take away the ?'s and help the mind relate!

I store my 08 2619 outside, opened and uncovered in West Central Florida, 2 miles from the coast! In 2 years of ownership and 35,000 miles of travel across the USA & Canada to Alaska, She is still leak free and the finish and caulking is original and still looking good!

I can't post pictures right now, but I have a three car garage with very little extra room on the sides. It has a two car door for the first two stalls and a one car door for the third stall, which is also shorter.

We plan on storing my VW Beetle in the third stall, which also has a workbench and tools in it. We plan on storing the TV (a Durango) in the first stall and the TM in the middle stall. There is a pole between the second and third stalls.

Unless we can shift the TM over a foot or so once it is in the garage, there would not be room for my husband to park his Durango far enough over to get out on the driver's side. (He is a big guy.)


So we want to pull the car in through the larger garage door and then shift it over to the side, past the door edge, near the pole. The right edge of the TM would be past the right edge of the garage door. I thought I saw a picture of a TM in someone's garage on here in which it looked like they had done this.

In my subdivision, the HOA does not allow any outside parking. In any case, I would want the TM parked inside because of weather up here. We really want to park in the garage without having to park my husband's Durango outside.

This is a drawing I just scribbled of it. Hopefully you can look at it with this link. (Not to scale but I hope you get the idea.)

[ELM-JLM]

In that case you should be able to back the TM in on an angle and with the wheel on the tongue jack just maneuver it into position! They do roll quite easily, on 3 wheels, on a nearly level surface! I have moved mine around on the driveway by myself!

On a level surface, such as the street in front of my house, two people can easily push a TM 2720 around as if it were a large child's toy wagon.

If the surface is not close to level, it will get away from you.

Those Go-Jacks look like the bomb. I would think you could get your TM anywhere (that's flat, smooth, and hard) with those.

Then just crank the corner jacks down to take the majority of the weight off the tires and you're good to go, 'er stay.

[Bill]

I'm not sure I should mention this, so beat me up if you like. But ...

Many years ago, I had two Model A Fords, a Roadster and a Coupe, that I kept in a 2 car garage during the summer. But during the winter, I needed a space for a third vehicle. The answer was to park one Ford sideways, against the back wall, which left room for the third vehicle. But the garage had a center post, and even with a PopBeavers 21-point turn, I could not maneuver either Ford around the post. My solution was to raise one of the Fords on a pair of hydraulic floor jacks, which have 4 small wheels. Once up, I could push it to where it needed to be, and let the jacks down. The Model A weighs a few hundred pounds less than a TM, but ...

At $25 each from Harbor Freight, it was a whole lot cheaper than what is being discussed here. Worked well, too.

Bill