in this day and age with all this technology don’t you think they would make trailers with self wind legs,sometimes a right pig trying to wind them up,same as roads,invent a surface where the bloody sun[when it appears]don’t bounce off in your face when the road is wet,today I never had time to put my sunglasses on and it was like looking in a mirror at the sun.
Can’t change physics when…
It comes to the sun glare off the road.
Wincanton’s had air operated landing legs on some of their older trailers when I worked for them. This was 30 years ago and I’ve never seen them since. You just threw a lever one way and the legs came down, if you wanted to take some weight off the pin there was a facility that let you jack the legs a small amount. I guess they were heavy and took away payload, so they never really caught on.
Scammell coupling!
dericboy1:
Scammell coupling!
Let’s…
Put 26 pallets of Coca-Cola on that and see what happens. 
truckman020:
in this day and age with all this technology don’t you think they would make trailers with self wind legs,sometimes a right pig trying to wind them up,same as roads,invent a surface where the bloody sun[when it appears]don’t bounce off in your face when the road is wet,today I never had time to put my sunglasses on and it was like looking in a mirror at the sun.
I have seen powered trailer legs, normally on specialist exhibition trailers, but I assume they haven’t become common due to cost, weight and maintenance.
I also doubt they’d last very long in the hands of the type of driver who decides dragging a trailer with the legs down is acceptable.
Personally I don’t have too many problem winding legs up and down, except when the trailer has been in the hands of the aforementioned trailer dragging driver.
muckles:
truckman020:
in this day and age with all this technology don’t you think they would make trailers with self wind legs,sometimes a right pig trying to wind them up,same as roads,invent a surface where the bloody sun[when it appears]don’t bounce off in your face when the road is wet,today I never had time to put my sunglasses on and it was like looking in a mirror at the sun.I have seen powered trailer legs, normally on specialist exhibition trailers, but I assume they haven’t become common due to cost, weight and maintenance.
I also doubt they’d last very long in the hands of the type of driver who decides dragging a trailer with the legs down is acceptable.
Personally I don’t have too many problem winding legs up and down, except when the trailer has been in the hands of the aforementioned trailer dragging driver.
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This
A lot of our tilts are dragged all over europe by all and sundry drivers, most specialising in trailer wrecking (some would appear to be real experts). Bent legs are common place and powered legs would last all of a few weeks. Dont know about the weight aspect though, my companys motto, if theres a gap/space then pile more on… 
Anyway…nothing wrong with a bit of excercise… 
Email the council about the sun ask them to get it moved,if they ignore you’re request then ring 999 and ask them.
xichrisxi:
Email the council about the sun ask them to get it moved,if they ignore you’re request then ring 999 and ask them.
a pair of these would solve the problem…
muckles:
truckman020:
in this day and age with all this technology don’t you think they would make trailers with self wind legs,sometimes a right pig trying to wind them up,same as roads,invent a surface where the bloody sun[when it appears]don’t bounce off in your face when the road is wet,today I never had time to put my sunglasses on and it was like looking in a mirror at the sun.I have seen powered trailer legs, normally on specialist exhibition trailers, but I assume they haven’t become common due to cost, weight and maintenance.
I also doubt they’d last very long in the hands of the type of driver who decides dragging a trailer with the legs down is acceptable.
Personally I don’t have too many problem winding legs up and down, except when the trailer has been in the hands of the aforementioned trailer dragging driver.
We have medical trailers that have either 4 winding legs (2 at the front and 2 behind the rear axle) that can be lowered individually to get the trailer flat or others have the traditional 2 legs on the front of the trailer and 4 hydraulic legs to raise/level the trailer.
Hydraulic legs are pretty slow and you can only do one at a time so if you were picking up a trailer it would be quicker winding them up.
Can’t have self winding legs that’s the only exercise some folk get 
someone was on Dragons Den once with powered landing legs…the dragons basically said because the margins are so small in haulage that cost is everything and nobody would buy them
Keep the manual legs!! It’s always nice to get the heart pumping when you have to wind a nice rusty pair.
And we would all be deprived of amusement when some noob tries to wind them all the way up in low gear.
had some air operated legs at sainsburys rugby 20 years ago…not seen any since?
I vaguely remember a company called Sam Williams from east London about 40ish years ago having trailers with hydraulic legs on their trailers.I wouldn’t be inclined to trust them personally.
Sun in your eyes? Close your eyes and keep winding until you can wind no more?
truckman020:
in this day and age with all this technology don’t you think they would make trailers with self wind legs,sometimes a right pig trying to wind them up,
If they are difficult to wind up manually, it’s because they have been damaged (or the maintenance has been neglected). Self-winding legs would suffer from exactly the same issues, so you’d end up having to wind them manually anyway (with the added effort of manually moving the “self winding” mechanism too).
looking at the Scamell coupling pic , it was interesting to see the electric contacts for the tail light. I’d forgotten all about them.
xichrisxi:
Email the council about the sun ask them to get it moved,if they ignore you’re request then ring 999 and ask them.
not a bad idea,might be expensive though,they would have to put the council tax up
How about one of those stair lift thingies to get you in and out of the cab.
Powered landing legs will come in eventually, but only to facilitate robots dropping & picking up trailers.