RV Crushes Truck
This guy dropped his 5th Wheel on the back of his truck on video. Not me BTW. What I can't figure out is how it happened. Go to about the 18 minute mark to see him checking everything, but it s...
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JIMNLIN wrote:
I've seen a few high pins (non rv) with the pin resting on the hitch jaws. And non had large gaps. One would think there would be but their wasn't.
In fact one side of the hitch plate had a gap and the opposite side had no gap..... like the picture in the vid.
Most rv folks have never seen a high pin or had it happen. So all kinds of theories abound on how a high pin looks.... or have seen how many ways a high pin can happen.
Even the pro grade OTR tractor trailer brand hitches like (Jost....Fountain....SAF Holland/etc) can be high pinned. RV hitch brands are no different.
Having had a slide bar hitch for 17-18 years, the only way this trailer dropped in the first few feet was the king pin was on top of the bar that was most of the way in. Or in the missing part of the video the guy pulled the handle out thinking that he was latching it.
At any rate it was not the fault of the hitch, it was something the user did wrong.
