Turn up to Farm x to collect full trailer. Parked with legs in a dip and on some old ■■■■■■■■■ and rotten planks. No one about No way of getting plate underneath. Try to low ratio crank and it just sinks as fast as its cranking.
An hour later and reinacting scrapheap challenge I manage to get the unit connected. Carefully pull away and… A bloody puncture. Thank God its last card today 
Thank Christ I don’t have to ■■■■ ball about with trailers anymore!! 
gotta ask… who dropped the trailer in such a wise place and utilising such wonderful equipment ? 
Farmer And bogey
midlifetrucker:
Farmer And bogey
you do realise that you’ve just taken the fun outta this…? 
Sorry. Should I have said a lesbian one legged agency driver with no dcpc and fully trained Eaton splitter gearbox sniffer
“Always find an easy way out”
Dump trailer’s air suspension (if any). This will raise pin.
Dump unit’s rear suspension (if any) This will lower turntable.
Find some more rotten planks and stack behind unit’s front wheels.
Engage reverse, declutch and ■■■■ it under the trailer.
Yeah all good if of course you can actually get the turntable under the trailer. In fact you’re describing a standard low couple.
Now give what you would do if the turntable is actually about four inches above the bottom of the trailer. No one else about to help.
I’d have a scout round for some more rotten planks, bricks, dead sheep etc. to add to the pile already
behind the unit’s front wheels. If that didn’t work I’d probably say ■■■■ it. 
could you not have just used your snow shovel (you do carry one don’t you) and dug a couple of trenches to reverse the tractor into ? drivers just seem to get lazier and lazier.
Bluey Circles:
could you not have just used your snow shovel (you do carry one don’t you) and dug a couple of trenches to reverse the tractor into ? drivers just seem to get lazier and lazier.
I would borrow the farmers JCB what with me being allergic to any physical labour,thank you.
Tried that too. No jcb and farmer not answering phone. I wonder why
a couple of people upthread have mentioned raising front wheels of tractor in hope of lowering plate … hows that going to work plate will also get higher as its infront of rear wheels ?
depending on mudguards etc, would it have been possible to get some of tractor chassis under trailer, rest trailer on chassis, lift legs, improve bedding underneath legs, then re-lift trailer to proper height.
So anyway, how did you get it connected ? “reinacting scrapheap challenge” wasn’t descriptive enough.
Bluey Circles:
a couple of people upthread have mentioned raising front wheels of tractor in hope of lowering plate … hows that going to work plate will also get higher as its infront of rear wheels ?
You beat me to it, thats what I could not understand either.
Steevo:
Bluey Circles:
a couple of people upthread have mentioned raising front wheels of tractor in hope of lowering plate … hows that going to work plate will also get higher as its infront of rear wheels ?You beat me to it, thats what I could not understand either.
Putting timber behind front axle wheels will in fact make the back of the unit lower I’ve done this on numerous occasion’s
Well done Bluey circles. Was waiting for someone to actually think about it. It scuffed the mudguards a bit. Did exactly that. Trouble was everything I put under legs to support trailer just sunk into the ground. I then had to scavenge some old box section and an old propshaft from the normal farmyard crap until I found something to take weight. It wasn’t level ground either the unit was on an upward incline so once I had enough height on trailer I had to ram it a bit to get in. Filthy knackered and pithed off needless to say
axletramp:
“Always find an easy way out”
Dump trailer’s air suspension (if any). This will raise pin.
Dump unit’s rear suspension (if any) This will lower turntable.
Find some more rotten planks and stack behind unit’s front wheels.
Engage reverse, declutch and [zb] it under the trailer.
Never thought of that! (Newbie driver) im always doing trailer swaps for full loads of cement or bricks and driver never thinks to raise suspension a bit before dropping the legs as you do when you want to f off asap . Thanks another lesson lesson learned hopefully i dont have to ram under the trailer again lol .
You shouldn’t raise as you drop. Drop level , pull out of pin And drop suspension. Drive off.
Then to connect drop suspension, slip under raise suspension then connect. Raise suspension more THEN do tug test. That way no damaged legs and no scrappy grease over edge of trailer and suzies
I always drop the air out of the trailer and release the handbrake to let it settle before I wind down the legs. I find if I don’t and just drop it level, then when you come back to it, if there’s even the slightest air leak, the trailers down on its arse with it’s nose way up and the feet all pulled on the legs. I though that was sort of standard practice. It is where I work anyways.
That picture looks like a nightmare collection to be honest. Of course there’s ways around it but it’s a pain in the ■■■ that shouldn’t have to be dealt with. A very silly way to drop a trailer
could you not have put just the run up rails under the front of the trailer and pumped the drive axle up? You might have lifted it enough to block under the legs and have another go once the suspension had dropped again.