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Originally Posted by TomB985
Hrmm...I'd worry more about jacking up a heavily loaded trailer than simply retracting...
FWIW...
I had major back surgery back in 6/07, and I got my first truck in November. My second load was a preloaded trailer that was 47,000 lbs heavy, with the tandems al the way back, and the damn landing gear almost all the way down.
Took me about 20 minutes to do so, but I jacked that thing up without hurting myself...it just took me a bit, that's all.
IMHO if you're careful you'll do just fine....
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Hmmmm...... With a loaded trailer to pick up, there are a couple different options a guy can do, to make retracting the landing gear easier. The easiest, is to have 2x4's that are cut to the right length, which you can set down on the ground, deflate the suspension then back up onto the 2x4's, and into the kingpin, so that the tractor & fifth wheel to the majority of the lifting.
The other...if the kingpin plate for the trailer is to low, and the trailer needs to come up a couple inches, is deflating the suspension, then backing under the trailer, and reinflating the suspension.
I try very very hard, to not be a "HE-man" and jack a loaded trailer up manually to get a tractor under it. In fact...if a trailer is so low that the tractor cannot get under the kingpin and lift the trailer...I good find the yardmule driver and have IT pickup the trailer...then jack down the landing legs.