Frustrated with guys who don't level their outriggers on soft ground

I pulled onto a site last Thursday and watched a guy set up on wet fill dirt. He kicked his pads in by hand, didn't bother with any cribbing, and was lifting a 12k AC unit. I told him he was asking for a tip-over and he just shrugged. Am I the only one who thinks basic leveling gets ignored way too much lately? How do you handle telling someone they're being unsafe without starting a fight?

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the_matthew23d ago

Half the time it's less about pads and more about not checking the ground will even hold weight.

bettywood23d ago

My buddy Mike set up his whole campsite last summer on what looked like solid dirt, but it was actually a thin crust over a soft spot. Woke up in the middle of the night to find his tent pole sinking sideways and his whole tent leaning like a tipsy shed. Took us an hour to dig the stakes out and move everything ten feet over.