Video Transcript for 2-Speed Manual Landing Gear Set Review

Today we're going to be taking a look at the square two-speed manual landing gear set. Now, this landing gear set lets you raise and lower your trailer quickly and easily. It's a complete weld-on installation, so this is going to weld directly onto your trailer. The unit's going to feature a two-gear set up, so you're going to have a low gear that's going to offer full lifting power and then you're going to have a high gear that allows you to operate the jacks at a faster pace or a faster operation. Now, this set is ideal for standard agricultural, construction and industrial trailer applications. You'll notice that it has the traditional gear box design on it that does require you to reposition the crank handle to switch between the gears.

Each jack is going to feature the drop legs with the spring return. That's going to increase overall extension for maximum adjustability. Spring return is simply you pull out this lever here, it's just a plunger pin, and the drop leg will return automatically. It's on a spring. And so you gotta watch out, stay clear of that.

Make sure you don't get anything caught in there, because these are heavy duty industrial grade. They're very strong and durable. That foot plate that's attached to the drop leg, that's really going to help spread out the applied weight, especially on softer surfaces to help prevent sinking. But again, those drop legs really help increase overall extension for maximum amount of adjustability. The plunger pins are positioned to the sides of the units. That's going to allow for much easier access.

The unit is made from a complete, just sturdy steel construction, has nice black powder-coated finishing over the whole unit. It's going to do a great job at resisting rust and corrosion. Again, weld-on installation to the trailer frame. Those foot plates are a nice round design. They're going to have a diameter of 9 7/8 of an inch.

I also want to point out that on each jack, as well as the gear box, you're going to have built in grease zerks. Those are going to allow for easy maintenance, so you can attach a grease gun to it, pump in the grease, it's going to lubricate the internal components and keep everything working as it should, which is going to help increase the overall lifespan of this landing gear set. You'll also notice that it comes with a handle. It's going to come with attachment hardware. You can swing that up when you're ready to use it. It's also going to come with your connecting rod, that's this piece right here. Nice durable design, steel construction, black powder-coated finish on there as well. And you're going to get all the necessary hardware to get everything attached where it needs to go. Now, because that connecting rod is so long, I actually couldn't fit it in for this video, but I did put it all together. I took some measurements that will hopefully be helpful to you. That connecting rod has an overall length, end to end, of 65 1/4 inches. You'll notice that the mount holes on that are elongated. Center of one mount hole going to the other end to the center of the other mount hole measures around 61 1/8 of an inch. So again, I put it together and with the rod attached to the jacks, the distance between the jacks from body to body was going to be between 69 1/4 inches to 72 inches. Now, this landing gear set is going to feature a lift capacity of 50,000 pounds, 25,000 pounds per jack. The overall height, not including the drop leg but with it in the fully retracted position is 30 inches, fully extended, again not including the drop leg is 43 inches. So this unit gives us a travel or lift of 13 inches, the height from the bottom of the foot plate to the closest point of the outer tube when fully retracted is 5 inches, fully extended is 18 inches. The drop leg is going to provide an additional 11 1/2 inches of travel. Each drop leg has four adjustment holes on it and those holes are separated on center by about four inches, so that's going to be your incremental height adjustment. Again, you got the plunger pins here on the side, a nice large handle. You can pull that out, rotate it. It's got a horizontal and vertical indention, so that way it holds that plunger pin handle in the position that you want it to be in while you're operating the unit. Now the outer tube is a square design, measures 4 3/8 of an inch by 4 3/8 of an inch. Inner tube, square design, 4 inches by 4 inches. Outer tube length from bottom to top 25 inches long. That's going to do it for today's look at the square two-speed manual landing gear set.