I appreciate everyone responding... So I thought I posted what ended up happening but I forgot. Anyhow it was just far enough off the road to not drag, so I got tired of messing with it and finished taking it the way it was. Then I took it a day or two later to the shop... I ran that trailer for a about a week (a few loads they have 4 other trailers they load into) and I’ll be ###### if about a week later the same leg on the same trailer didn’t roll back up after I dumped it.
I was afraid they were gonna think I dropped it or did something wrong to break it, or be mad at me, but when I took it back they actually apologized after and said they had missed a bearing the first time they fixed it, and had they gotten that the first time I wouldn’t have had an issue the second time. So long story short it got fixed and it’s been working fine and I’m happy.
I will definitely take the advice to double check things, especially after they’ve been worked on.
Broken Landing Gear
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Always take pics of damage ect before you touch it if possible...Even do a short vid and save it if they give you static...
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This is where a pipe wrench comes in handy.
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“let the owners fix it” is kind of a tough one with this company tho. I’m just the new guy still with this company I’ve only been with a few months... they did end up fixing (actually the mill owns the trailer not my company) but my company fixed it anyway, but I had to take the trailer a two hour drive up to them... wait a few days because they were running loads in it after they fixed it, then go the 2 hour drive back up to get it. Not being paid for that part of course, and being short a trailer at the mill so I had to run as hard as I could to make sure they stayed okay. A little bit of a pain in the neck to say the least.
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