5th wheel popped out of hitch

bpounds wrote:

0rion wrote:
don't kill me but I have trouble seeing the need for a pull test. When I first got the trailer I did one every time but it always felt like a waste of motion. If I look under the back of the hitch, which I do every time, and see the jaws (which I painted) closed behind the pin and the latch fits into place I see no reason to do the pull test. Maybe I'm missing something and it'll bite me at some point but the way I hook up I just see no way for that trailer to drop out of the hitch unless you're high hitched or the jaws didn't close all the way around the hitch which you should immediately notice when you look into the back of the hitch. I always have the hitch lift the trailer up a touch when hitching so even a high hitch seems almost impossible to me with the way I hook up. Maybe I'm missing something.

Maybe if we called it a "brake test", it would make more sense.

We sit for 6 months during the winter and the alpenlite sits at home for the summer so yes I do the pull test for the trailer brakes push to test the hitch. sometimes products just break, no need for a surprise.

chevman