When we lived in Illinois, we stored our 5th wheel in a retired farmer's machine shed. The RV tenant beside us was a large class A Newmar. The Newmar owner could not get his rig out past our trailer safely, so the farmer decided to move our trailer. The farmer doesn't have the keys to the trailer and doesn't have a vehicle with a 5th wheel hitch, so he moved it with his tractor. How you ask did he move it with his tractor? The tractor has a front loader with a bucket. He put the lip of the bucket against the 5th wheel pin and PUSHED the trailer backward a couple feet. I store our trailer with all four leveling jacks down so all of the weight of the trailer is on the jacks and none of the weight of the trailer is on the Morryde IS rubber springs. He pushed the entire 18,500 pounds of the trailer two feet with the rear jacks digging into the gravel floor of the shed. The rear metal jack pads were buried about 4" into the ground.
The next time I went to the shed to retrieve the trailer, I saw that the trailer had been moved and that it was pushed. I knew exactly what he had done and had he been standing there I probably would have lost my cool on him. He came out to the shed after I pulled the trailer out and was closing the shed doors. He probably could see that I was really irritated and asked if the jacks were ok. We looked them over very carefully and it didn't bend them at all, even the rams which were extended about 60% of the maximum stroke when he pushed the trailer. I was fully expecting to see bent rams.
That's how strong Bigfoot lifts are.
The next time I went to the shed to retrieve the trailer, I saw that the trailer had been moved and that it was pushed. I knew exactly what he had done and had he been standing there I probably would have lost my cool on him. He came out to the shed after I pulled the trailer out and was closing the shed doors. He probably could see that I was really irritated and asked if the jacks were ok. We looked them over very carefully and it didn't bend them at all, even the rams which were extended about 60% of the maximum stroke when he pushed the trailer. I was fully expecting to see bent rams.
That's how strong Bigfoot lifts are.
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. I’m not sure I could do the same. Glad your rig is ok. 