Hitching a fifth wheel - in pictures
Does anyone care to comment on my steps/pictures to hitching a fifth wheel? Hitching My Fifth Wheel - a pictorial Other than those that feel that B&W doesn't need a pull test (smile), does anyon...
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rhagfo wrote:
So as to the strain, there is a fair amount of play in the front landing gear. Try this some time once hitched and with the pads just off the ground, push and pull on the legs back and fourth and see how far the easily move!
That's my point actually. The landing gear have very little stiffness laterally. And even though you are chocked, the coach is going to rock quite a bit when you do a pull test with a load on the gear. The landing gear isn't very strong vertically either, especially the gear sets, but I don't think the coach will have much vertical inertia when it slides off the hitch. In a half inch of travel.
JMO of course. In fact, I do my pull test with the gear fully retracted. Obviously if my test fails, I'm probably going to damage the truck and trailer. But I already know it is safely pinned, I'm just testing the brakes and adding a little reassurance in my mind.
