Help! Trailer sitting on locking pins

trying to slide trailer tandems at an angle will do this. it twists the frame. don't ask me how I know and it was 20 or so yrs ago.lol

 

Why don't you regale us with your experience. It might qualify for the Wall Of Shame contest held every November. There's a Newbie class and a Should Know Better class and a Been Doing It Too Long class

 

Small sledgehammer and a few good whacks.

 

Take a big steel pipe and beat your driver with it. Probably won't fix the trailer but you'll feel better.

 

This^^^

 

These need to be out of the way when the trailer drops back down, or they will become a royal pain..
I have actually handled this very problem at least 4 times at a shipping dock with nothing but some ingenuity and brute force..

 

Even if the pins are retracted, the guide rail brackets will have to be removed before the rails can come back down. Unless the brackets are bent outward already which caused the slide rail to lift up and over the brackets.

 

I couldn't tell by the picture if they were gonna be in the way... sometimes they wear thin and you can pry them away to allow clearance

 

Get a couple of straps. +1 on how did he do it.

 

Thank God he didn't try to take it down the road like that!