Extending front landing gear technique
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 m...
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nwtraveler2 wrote:
another reason to extend the legs a few inches first is
that the trailer can settle and depending on how soft
the ground is you might not be able to raise the rv high
enough to re hitch. which kind of sounds like what you
were experiencing.
The first few inches you run out gives you the ability to drop the nose to level by retracting the landing gear back up. I have saw people just drop the gear to the ground to start with, after that the only down leveling on the nose of the fiver will be what you lifted it to clear your truck hitch. I have done this, and saw it done, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you have to hook back up.
