High centered landing gear stuck to the ground....

[quillcom]

How did you get out of it?

This happened to me three times so far and only once I had to call a wrecker to pull me out.

They were all at those very inclined docks where you were not paying attention to it.

I remember coming back to the same dock once and saying all I had to do is to move the tandems up once I get near the spot. Only that did not work because for some reason I could not get my tandems move. I was thinking it was because the trailer was inclined.

But luckily I had some 2x4's with me and was able to use those to get over that spot.

How did you guys do it?

I was thinking too I could have used a car jack to lift me out.

 

[389 Hood]

Pull the air ride adjustment arm off, raise the bags to clear the hump, then back it in and put the arm back where it belongs. You just can't go over the limits of travel the shocks put on the suspension.

How would sliding the tandems up help? Unless the tractor is outside of the decline of the ramp.

 

[quillcom]

Pull the air ride adjustment arm off, raise the bags to clear the hump, then back it in and put the arm back where it belongs. You just can't go over the limits of travel the shocks put on the suspension.

How would sliding the tandems up help? Unless the tractor is outside of the decline of the ramp.

So I'm not sure our trailers even have those adjustment arms as it appears not all do.

As for sliding he tandems, yeah just before I backed up to the spot where the landing gear would contact the ground I would have just moved the tandems all the way up clearing that spot

That particular dock you could not back in with the tandems all the way up because of the overhead beam that you would hit if you did.

 

[Phantom Trucker]

A suspension “Over Inflate Kit” on your truck would’ve been handy to get you out of that situation. Flip a switch and it adds more air to your bags giving you additional ground clearance.

Guys that pull trailers with low ground clearance tend to have them. (Livestock, car hauler, RGN, etc).

The trailers mentioned above often have “drop legs” (similar to a jack stand) instead of the hand crank type landing gear. If a truck with 24.5 inch tires unhooked from a trailer that had drop legs, then a truck with 22.5 would be too low to hook up to it. With an Over Inflate Kit on the truck you could raise the suspension up enough to make contact with the kingpin.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Pull the air ride adjustment arm off, raise the bags to clear the hump, then back it in and put the arm back where it belongs. You just can't go over the limits of travel the shocks put on the suspension.

How would sliding the tandems up help? Unless the tractor is outside of the decline of the ramp.

I've done this a couple times on a lowboy when it bottomed out in parking lots. I imagine it would work on other trailers. You may even have better luck doing it to your truck instead since it's the landing gear up at the front and not the bottom of the trailer.

 

[Duck]

A few years ago they destroyed a 160 acre farm field so the mayor could line his pockets and enrich his contractor friend. The result being a rarely used public park that's basically just a bunch of grass and a tennis court...

During that project, a low-boy or RGN or whatever got high centered on the railroad tracks by my house.

I saw it when I was coming home from somewhere.

Because it was on a very active railroad track, I stopped.

He didn't know what to do, he was on the phone with his boss. So I called the number on the blue sign like you're supposed to, then I was able to break the linkage rod off of his leveler valve on the tractor with my bare hands (it was just a rubber boot) and overinflate it. I had him back up til he was off the tracks, then I called the railroad back and said the tracks were clear.

Then I went home and got a hose clamp and a screwdriver so I could "fix" the torn rubber leveler valve boot the way I did on a Volvo once, but when I got back he was gone. Probably driving with his air bags deflated..

 

[Shreck]

A few years ago they destroyed a 160 acre farm field so the mayor could line his pockets and enrich his contractor friend. The result being a rarely used public park that's basically just a bunch of grass and a tennis court...

During that project, a low-boy or RGN or whatever got high centered on the railroad tracks by my house.

I saw it when I was coming home from somewhere.

Because it was on a very active railroad track, I stopped.

He didn't know what to do, he was on the phone with his boss. So I called the number on the blue sign like you're supposed to, then I was able to break the linkage rod off of his leveler valve on the tractor with my bare hands (it was just a rubber boot) and overinflate it. I had him back up til he was off the tracks, then I called the railroad back and said the tracks were clear.

Then I went home and got a hose clamp and a screwdriver so I could "fix" the torn rubber leveler valve boot the way I did on a Volvo once, but when I got back he was gone. Probably driving with his air bags deflated..

Duct tape and a stick got me home from Minnesota one time.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Duct tape and a stick got me home from Minnesota one time.

I had to wrap mine with electrical tape once as a temp fix.