Swing up legs on Hiabs

I used to have a wagon with these, I always thought they were a stupid idea. When they’ve partly swung up by hydraulics you then had to manually lift them the last 60 to 90 degrees, I would have said that was at least partly the dangerous bit as there’s quite a bit of weight in them.

One did nearly kill me, but not because of the hazard they’ve described: I pressed the lever to boom it out from the body while the leg was still in the raised position, standard practice to clear the truck body, and the leg immediately shot off the end of the ram because all four retaining screws had sheared off! To make things worse it was the off-side leg which swung down towards the position you had to stand in to operate the levers - fortunately I had a habit of keeping my eye on it as it moved, I never realized until that day how fast I could be on my feet :laughing: