Have you noticed that if anything is going to break down, it happens in winter! Fortunately, my neighbor had two machines and offered to let me use one until I could get it looked at. I shoved the snow away from the hitch and cranked the trailer down until it sat on the ball. Finally, I had the trailer out of the snow and into my drive, lowered the tail ramp, and loaded the snowblower. Did I mention that I hate winter?