Life in Sector 7 G.

[Rigjockey]

Not to hijack @Electric Chicken thread I'll put this here. At my last place we used regular trucks and had to crank landing gear. One older guy was dropping trailers like the truck was spring ride, Ol' school thinking he would crank the gear to the pavement. We have air ride trucks now and the way they work is you leave some space between the dolly pads and the pavement and drop the air, slide out from the trailer.
He was dropping empties that would get loaded so the nose of the trailer would naturally raise as the trailer was loaded.
His reasoning was he didn't want to damage the landing gear.
My response was...we can buy new landing gear; I can't buy new nuts after cranking my nuts off trying to lower the trailer. Hernia in the making.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Not to hijack @Electric Chicken thread I'll put this here. At my last place we used regular trucks and had to crank landing gear. One older guy was dropping trailers like the truck was spring ride, Ol' school thinking he would crank the gear to the pavement. We have air ride trucks now and the way they work is you leave some space between the dolly pads and the pavement and drop the air, slide out from the trailer.
He was dropping empties that would get loaded so the nose of the trailer would naturally raise as the trailer was loaded.
His reasoning was he didn't want to damage the landing gear.
My response was...we can buy new landing gear; I can't buy new nuts after cranking my nuts off trying to lower the trailer. Hernia in the making.

I dont mind being hijacked but I kinda see both sides.

But I'm always in the camp of drop it perfect and no one will complain.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Not to hijack @Electric Chicken thread I'll put this here. At my last place we used regular trucks and had to crank landing gear. One older guy was dropping trailers like the truck was spring ride, Ol' school thinking he would crank the gear to the pavement. We have air ride trucks now and the way they work is you leave some space between the dolly pads and the pavement and drop the air, slide out from the trailer.
He was dropping empties that would get loaded so the nose of the trailer would naturally raise as the trailer was loaded.
His reasoning was he didn't want to damage the landing gear.
My response was...we can buy new landing gear; I can't buy new nuts after cranking my nuts off trying to lower the trailer. Hernia in the making.

That was my procedure too when it was going in our yards for us to move later. If it was coming off someone else's truck do it like your buddy Spring Ride there. It was quickly evident to us that our fifth wheels were quite a bit taller than all the Crapcadias and Volvos that Ramitdeep and Ditchpinder were bombing around in.