I'll probably get some shit for how I'm using these.
Camco leveling blocks are meant for leveling an RV. I'm using them as a base under the leveling jack feet of our motorhome.
I don't think that's necessarily wrong.
I call it field adaptation.
The Problem Was the Ground
Where we live, the soil can be some nasty clay.
Set something heavy on it and leave it there long enough, and it wants to disappear.
When we moved the motorhome onto the property full time, I didn't want the leveling jack feet slowly sinking into the ground every time we set the coach up.
I already had a pile of Camco leveling blocks left over from using them at the races, so I figured I'd try them.
Worst case, they failed and I was out a few pieces of plastic.
Before putting them under the motorhome full time, I tested them at the races on grass pads. They worked well there, so when we moved onto the property, I kept using them.
That was about a year ago.
They're still there.
They've Had a Pretty Rough Life
These aren't blocks that get put down once and forgotten about.
We move the motorhome regularly.
I've had to pull the coach out to get propane, fuel the generator, dump the tanks, reposition it for work, or move it because of weather and whatever else is going on.
So the blocks get pulled out, reset, driven around, and put back into service.
They're supporting a pretty damn heavy Class A motorhome on clay soil.
And they've held up.
I did manage to break one.
I drove over the corner of it with the rear of the motorhome and snapped it.
That's not a product failure in my book.
That's me being an idiot.
The rest of the block was still usable, and after a year of this kind of treatment, I'm not complaining.
Is This What Camco Intended?
Probably not.
And that's worth making clear.
I'm not writing this as a recommendation that everyone should use RV leveling blocks under their jack feet.
I'm telling you what I did, why I did it, and what happened.
After roughly a year of full-time use, the blocks are still doing exactly what I needed them to do:
They're keeping the leveling jack feet from disappearing into the ground.
That's a pretty simple test.
And so far, they've passed it.
Why I Haven't Changed It Yet
Eventually, I'd like to install a purpose-built solution such as RV SnapPads on the leveling feet.
That's a cleaner, more permanent setup.
But timing and budget matter, especially when you're constantly working on multiple parts of the motorhome.
Until that happens, I don't see a reason to replace something that's working.
The Camco blocks were already sitting here.
They're inexpensive.
They're easy to move around.
And after a year of getting dragged, reset, loaded, unloaded, and occasionally abused by a 20,000-plus-pound motorhome, they're still in service.
That's good enough for me.
The Bottom Line
This isn't a laboratory test.
I didn't put the blocks on a test stand and measure exactly how much weight they can support.
I put them under a motorhome, on shitty clay soil, and used them repeatedly for about a year.
One got damaged because I drove over it.
The others kept working.
That's real-world testing.
Sometimes you don't need a fancy solution.
You just need something that works.
And for now, these Camco leveling blocks are doing the job.
I'll eventually move to a purpose-built jack-pad system.
Until then, I'm sticking with what I've already proven works here.
