Yes you lost the lower parts of the landing gear.If you are this direction from McCoy I have some here to look at and see whats gone also if you wish to lower the towing height you can change tires.
DavidB
I live just North of Madison so if you're close maybe we could meet up sometime.
I took what's left off and took it apart to see what went wrong. I suspect the trailer was "dropped" too hard on it's landing gear at some point.
The guts look like what would be in a civilian trailer leg from say Atwood or such.
It has a set of gears that attached to a shaft that connected to the lower leg assembly. It appears the c-clip holding the end of the lower shaft came off allowing the lower parts to come off. There was a brass bushing in the gear box that was shattered. This was the bushing for the lower shaft, not where the horizontal crank shaft rides.
Yea it's a bummer. I could spend $50 in gas and see if it's on the side of the road between McCoy and LaCrosse but I doubt my success rate would be worth it. I just hope someone didn't run over it on the road and hurt their car.
I hope no one else has this problem and maybe it would be another thing to check when you p/u your trailer. Next time I'd give the landing leg plate a good kick with my foot to make sure it's secure.
I see that there's one on sleazebay for $100 + shipping but for $30 I could buy a clamp on leg with a wheel (Sorry purist's). I was thinking of getting a 2 1/4x 2 1/4 piece of tube that would slide up there and weld a foot on and bolt the new tube to the old leg. While not adjustable it'd work.
Here's some photos of the crank handle. It looks fairly easy to whip something up that'd work.
