Ran into an unloading problem when my V2XT got delivered.
The typical "drag it to where you can snag it" suggestions were discarded as all I could imagine was dragging it so far and then having the damn thing tip or some other ugly story that would be hilarious to watch unless it was your machine.
So, in spite of numerous well meaning suggestions to the contrary, I called the wrecking service at the end of the street where I live.
They brought this tandem axle multiboom hoist over and etended the boom and picked it up and we drove the truck out from underneath it. It took longer for the truck to get here than it took to snag and lift it off.
Seems that they do this sort of thing all the time and they were more gentle with the thing than the experts who loaded it (less, actually no damage versus broken connector by the expers)
Best $125 I ever spent as there were NO worries about dropping it, it getting away or any such other grief. I was more concerned about our own ability to lift and carry it with the forklift - the last time we moved stuff, my business partner dropped a lathe off of the forklift (road rash but a still scared the hell out of me to see that lathe tumble).
You could also lift it up with a H/D fortified "swing set" and drive the trailer off from underneath it.  |