Presumably you accept deliveries, collections and the like… why not nicely ask a visiting driver if they wouldn’t mind shifting it? Maybe chuck a yorkie and a free VPN their way…
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Everything from the OP shouts lack of knowledge from the rooftops. No insult intended but this is a potentially very dangerous proposal. If this is a one off movement ask a local haulage company to shunt the trailer for you; if not invest in an old tractor unit that has been used for shunting trailers and get someone trained to shunt trailers safely.
May 7th Commercial Motor reports £794,568 fines and costs following runaway trailer fatality. And this was an accident involving people who knew what they should be doing and were using a proper tractor unit.
its a shame your company only work on paper and not sweat, blood and toil
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It’s about 4 or 5 bar to release the brakes I’d say. You’ll need an airline and coupling.
^^ like he said.. be careful. And chock the trailer.
That is less then 75PSI, and is really not a lot! considering “I think the tyres on it are about 100 PSI”
Though it would of been about 200-300PSI to be honest
What could possibly go wrong?
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This whole thing smacks of a person attempting to save money by extracting their own wisdom teeth after watching a YouTube video of “how to”.
No its people using there brains to work out how to do a job with out the right tools for the right job (called improvising with what they have) as opposed to right tick tick politically correct machine drivers/ operators (no pun intended) slandering anyone ells off that thinks out side of the box simply because they cant afford the right tools for the right job, regardless of the drivers/ operators employment status that they never could afford one any way and why they drive/ operate what they do!
Oh well turns out the pin on the trailer is 5 1/2’ from the pin to the front of the trailer, and the folks of the FLT we have are only 6’ long. Best try something ells
Suit Speak I take it? With that attitude there will be blood on the job.
I think Moaster has hit the nail very firmly on the head.
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yup! Very little tech info found hear on how it all works, just stupid little trolls with nothing better to do then condemn and criticize the hard work of others
BTW my welfare is non of your business
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You’ve been answered with a few informative replies. Including one where acd1202 told you more or less what to do.
You’re question about the shunt valve however did make me wonder.
Your idea is fine, you absolutely do not need a tractor unit, as I said what you are suggesting is done all over the world, but don’t even think about doing it with a loaded trailer; yes I know you haven’t suggested it.
Look at the picture md1987 posted, that is what you want and i was trying to describe. If you can’t come across an old 5th wheel fabricate a cross of bar in the same position as the 5th wheel is there to create a square into which the kingpin will drop. The length of your forks isn’t an issue, you need a minimum of 2.08metres of clear swing space from the king pin position; all 45’ trailers are the same, it’s the law. Use box section of at least 8’, your forks will lift with that, no problem, as long as your truck is heavy enough to deal with 1.7t at 7’ from the mast, which is why I said a 4t truck is probably a minimum.
The commercially available items are without doubt best, because they will have CE marks and therefore their correct use can be covered by your public liability cover. A do it yourself job will be at your risk. You pay your money and take your choice.
Truck brake systems don’t operate at enormous pressures, modern trailers work at about 140psi, older ones at 115psi. About 80psi should be enough to release the spring brakes with the black shunt valve. Almost any small wheeled compressor is capable of doing it. Any commercial motor factor will have a male red line air suzie coupling on the shelf for a few quid.
I think you said earlier that some of these trailers haven’t moved for 2 years, I’ll wish you the best of luck.
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Unfortunately it is not the OP who will be taking the risk with the home-made effort, it will be his unlucky employees.
Is it now?
Well speaking as an ex operator who wrote the book on ‘brains and initiative and improvisation’ …
I would say it’s that if you can’t afford a knackered cheap old shunter good enough to shunt a couple of trailers around your yard, but prefer to do it by ‘‘Heath Robinson’’ potentially dangerous makeshift means just to save a couple of hundred quid…(especially in the present climate of zero tolerance type health and safety 
) maybe you shouldn’t be operating.
Doing stuff today in this industry like I did in the 80s just aint on.
And the quote you linked to me was not mine btw !
If you only want to hear what you want to hear, then get all arsey when you don’t …maybe you should not ask the advice of others mate.
Just saying.
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unless specified otherwise, FLT are a lifting and not a towing vehicle🙈. And if they are used for towing, they are doing it wrong.
More or less every commercial garage in the country doing it wrong then 
Look at the picture md1987 posted, that is what you want and i was trying to describe.The length of your forks isn’t an issue, you need a minimum of 2.08metres of clear swing space from the king pin position
That photo looks like it is an extention of the folks which would indeed make them over 6 feet long
Truck brake systems don’t operate at enormous pressures, modern trailers work at about 140psi, older ones at 115psi. About 80psi should be enough to release the spring brakes with the black shunt valve. Almost any small wheeled compressor is capable of doing it. Any commercial motor factor will have a male red line air suzie coupling on the shelf for a few quid.
Dose the pressure of the compresor have to be set right?
What pressure do you think min is?
I have uploaded a couple of photos
Thanks
not interested in your $ ass industry matty, not interested one bit!
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The subtle difference is doing it KNOWING its wrong, and simply not knowing.
About page 2 of the FLT training deals with the FLT’s PIN which is for its recovery, not to tow other things. 
It is a Don Bur aswell 
If that old ■■■■■■■ is on discs and has been parked up for two years the forklift will be doing a nosedive trying to move that.
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Not interested in my WHAT? 
And who tf is Matty ?
Oh don’t bother explaining…
I aint interested.
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