Extending front landing gear technique

philtrains wrote:
During the past year with my new fifth wheel when unhooking I always pulled the pin and dropped the front feet and then raised the trailer with the extend button. A couple of times I had difficulty manually lifting one of the feet up to store after hooked up. Thank goodness I ran into the right mechanic. He told me when unhooking to always electrically extend the feet 3" first AND THEN pull the pin to drop the feet. Since following this procedure I have never had the problem again. Has anyone heard this before. Hope this makes sense and will help someone out.

Not sure I understand the issue. As long as the weight is off the leg, it shouldn't be an issue to telescope the inner leg, regardless of where the outer leg is positioned. However, you do need to make sure you give yourself enough gear travel to both setup level, AND hitch up when leaving. I've screwed up a couple of times when sites were badly out of level, but you get used to estimating how much leg travel you will need. But this has nothing to do with ease of telescoping the legs.