After probably a week of not even looking at the house I had to go check it out. Only to notice it seemed a little crooked. We had had some pretty wild winds lately and I'm guessing it was mostly the doing of the wind, but also the poor choice to use jack stands at the rear of the trailer.
You may be able to make out where a cinder block was suppose to be opposite the one still standing. I made the mistake of putting the cinder blocks on edge, not the way they would be stacked for a wall/foundation, and they are not so strong that way.
All in all, I was happy this happened. I feel more confident in my structure and the weld joints I made throughout. While jacking it back up I had to jack at extremes, with more weight than it will actually support, and in ways that the trailer wouldn't usually see and everything did fine. When jacking up the rear at the corner there was almost no torsional flexing. If one side was going up, so was the other!
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