Pushing a button to release trailer?

or if yur bellys to big and ya cant reach under there

 

My new signature. Thanks

 

The first drop trailer I ever did at a customer, I wound up with grease all up my arm and sleeve. Went out and bought a puller the next day. Best $7 I ever spent. Still works seven years later. That's $1 a year, or probably $0.01 per use. You can't beat that. I have more loose change in my truck than the cost of that puller.

Also, my truck's 5th wheel release arm sits directly above the front drive axle. So, even if I had little skinny arms, it'd be tough not to touch the apron to grab and pull the lever.

 

Have you never heard of a fifth wheel puller hook. Does all you want and never fails.

 

Sure I have. I have one in my right side box should my button activated fifth wheel release not work.

I mentioned the dirty back cuz that very morning I saw a driver with the telltale signs he pulls his fifth wheel pin, dirt on the back right side of his shirt. So, evidently not everyone has one all of the time.

 

Back years and years ago, the early 70's, I hauled milk to for a grocery store chain, already in the carton and in wire crates stacked 5-6 high. We used hooks to move the stacks to the side lift gate. I still have 3 of those around after all these years. They make great fifth wheel pullers. Their not highly polished from use like they used to be but neither am I, got a little rust on me now.

 

Hi semi, I didn't mean to hog your handle. Back in my bread hauling days (all 500 of them) we had those hooks for pulling the bread trays around, like 12 or 13 high. They were on those crappy frames with the square wheels that never turned, and the hook was the hot setup.

 

I've had two different release buttons, One all I had to do was pull the knob and the 5th wheel unlocked. Wonderful devise, I have short arms! and the second (slightly more difficult, and I say difficult because there is no consistency to its operation. Once it worked..... of the 15 or so tries I have done, ONCE it worked!!) is the rocker switch. The knob was on a borrowed truck, the switch is on my truck..... And My truck IS possessed!
Even though I have tried on several occasions, trying every method I could think of, the rocker switch does not release the fifth wheel locking jaw..... I didn't have my extender arm that is well worth the $10 or so to purchase and had to pull the frigging arm with frozen, slushy, nasty gunk all over the underside of the apron and despite the mud flaps and splashguards, the crap was all over everything else too and the dam arm was not wanting to stay in the locked open position.....Not to mention my footing was on a sheet of Ice since the friggin parking lot was a skating rink! I'm pretty sure the guys inside got a kick out of the surveillance footage, but I'm NOT laughing.
The bruises on my upper arms from fighting with the handle to stay open are Hideous and the cut on my forehead is Intolerable! However, 'dems da brakes!
Any advise on how to get the 2015 International fifth wheel release rocker switch to work is helpful and welcomed though for next winter.

 

No its a auto unlock ur fithwheel instead of pulling the pin put it does it for u

 

Ok what u ahve to do is ram it to break the ice loss so it will stay like itst supposed to so ram the king pin back and forth to un freeze it