Parking in a sloped driveway

[kiwon]

I have a Nitro z7 that I can’t fit into my garage (too wide) I want to park it in the driveway but it’s sloped and I’m scared to death the the wheel chalks won’t hold and my boat my role out into the street. Any help I can get would be appreciated I’m trying to keep from paying to storage

[Highcentered]

Do you have anything close by to rig a safety chain to? Guess it just depends how steep the grade is. If it's a tandem trailer you can get those chocks people put between the wheels on campers. If single axle you might have to get creative and just hope they hold.

[ECobb91]

You can buy wheel chucks that utility companies use. They are galvanized steel and made for icey roads. They bite into asphalt and won’t slip like a brick or normal wheel chuck would.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/VESTIL-GW...iABEgIbKPD_BwE

You could also get asphalt nails and nail a wooden ramp/boards into the driveway with a flush edge facing uphill so it can’t roll forward, but is angled so when you back it up it’ll go over easily

[kiwon]

I have a single axle and plastic wheel chocks that I have no confidence in

[NoZero]

If it's that sloped, I would either:

Cut, dig, and pour anchor blocks, OR - ^^ what eCobb said - nail an actor plate down to attach your chocks to. I might also put anchor points for chains at either side of the rear rail of the trailer.

[jarhead175]

Cable through the wheel to the trailer frame? If the wheel chock let go the cable would stop it from rolling.

I would start by attaching the chock so it couldn't move.

[jwcfbd]

any room on the side of the house to make a parking pad?

[printman71]

Give these a look. I have them.

[rcwhite]

I know the threat. Be careful. Was unhooking my xpress boat on my sloped driveway and lost control of it rolling downhill toward my garage. Luckily it turned and rolled beside my garage into bushes. Been paranoid ever since. And yes I had the wheels chalked.

[TritonTRXV8]

Depends how sloped it is. We have had both our boats in the driveway that is sloped with wheelchocks for 12 years and have never given it a second thought. Never budged an inch. We have good wheel chocks tho no plastic junk.

[Fishndav]

Facing downhill you need to be really careful about water filling up the boat also. One bad storm with a leaky cover can make a hell of a mess.

[e-tec]

Run an 8 ft piece of rebar through both wheels as a back-up to chocks if you are that worried. Never seen anybody do that before but it won't roll far.

[Coke]

Buy a new house and move, make sure the new place has a wider garage door.

[UWBASS]

Buy a new house and move, make sure the new place has a wider garage door.

This! All joking aside, I let my wife know very early on that in our recent house search- having a suitable garage depth and width wise as well as a relatively flat driveway was prerogative #1 for me in our search. The realtors thought I was crazy bringing my own tape measure to showings to measure the garage (as I found the stated dimensions weren’t always accurate...)

[Ohio Archer]

Four of these work well. Our driveway slopes toward the road at a very drastic angle. So much so that I need to put blocks under the jack to raise it level so it doesn't fill up when it rains (and it's been raining a lot). It was easier with a single axle trailer. With the tandem it compresses the rear axle quite a bit to get it level so i have the front axle on a 1x12 block as well.

https://www.harborfreight.com/rubber...olt-69828.html

[Rip Bass]

Lots of good replies here. Those rubber chocks that look like they are made of stacked up tire pieces will grip on concrete and pavement. The idea about tying the wheel to the frame sounds like the easiest and cheapest. You could use a piece of heavy rope so you don’t scratch anything.

[DaveBrabec]

I use the x chocks on my travel trailer

[kiwon]

I wish

[Cgs1967!]

My driveway is at a 15 degree angle. I had my old Skeeter hooked to my truck with the emergency brake on. Came out and saw my boat jackknifed into my truck and truck and boat skid 50 yards before stopping. I now have a Ranger with trailer brakes. Much better than using chalks like I use to. I like the idea of the scissor jack thing in the above post. If you don't have tandem axle I guess some heavy duty chalks. You might chain the trailer to part of the garage or house.

[wmitch2]

Is there anything you could run a cable or a chain to and then to the trailer frame. Tree, post, etc.......I use the Harbor Freight ones when I go somewhere that I have to drop the trailer.