Weight Distribution Hitch Trailer Brackets
Hello all, I just got my weight distribution hitch, and one of the things I'm wondering is should I leave the brackets that attach to the trailer frame on all the time. Is it something anyone woul...
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If they’re easily removeable and you’re in a sketchy area, I’d remove them, only if you think there’s more of a market for brackets (their isn’t. Think value to a tweaker which = flip for drugs or cash (for drugs) or useful for living under a bridge or making drugs)
But your propane tanks and batteries will be gone in a heartbeat and likely trailer broke in and ransacked long before someone steals some nondescript chunks of metal.
Here’s how tweakers think…..Bought a nice enclosed trailer for a new project at work.
Within a week of it being parked on the new job (Spokcompton = Spokane) it was vandalized, attempting to break in. But it was locked and both sets of doors were blocked by backing up to a solid wall and parking a loader bucket next to side door so couldn’t open it more than a few inches.
We emptied valuable contents into a conex and left it unlocked for a month or so after that. No issues, nothing good to steal. I’m sure it was rummaged through as almost every weekend tweakers tear apart our yard fence.
Fast forward a week ago. Bring trailer back over with more tools. Nowhere to store tools until another conex is shipped over.
Was there 2 nights. Parked same way as first time. (With heavy steel puck locks and brackets added to doors). Side door was damaged considerably this time. Couldn’t get it open without cutting puck lock brackets off AND moving the backhoe with bucket against the door. Yet they tried bending the bottom half of the door open like zombies.
We also get batteries stolen regularly. And fuel siphoned.
Point is, your brackets are safe, unless they disappear along with the trailer. Especially with propane and batteries there as bait.
But your propane tanks and batteries will be gone in a heartbeat and likely trailer broke in and ransacked long before someone steals some nondescript chunks of metal.
Here’s how tweakers think…..Bought a nice enclosed trailer for a new project at work.
Within a week of it being parked on the new job (Spokcompton = Spokane) it was vandalized, attempting to break in. But it was locked and both sets of doors were blocked by backing up to a solid wall and parking a loader bucket next to side door so couldn’t open it more than a few inches.
We emptied valuable contents into a conex and left it unlocked for a month or so after that. No issues, nothing good to steal. I’m sure it was rummaged through as almost every weekend tweakers tear apart our yard fence.
Fast forward a week ago. Bring trailer back over with more tools. Nowhere to store tools until another conex is shipped over.
Was there 2 nights. Parked same way as first time. (With heavy steel puck locks and brackets added to doors). Side door was damaged considerably this time. Couldn’t get it open without cutting puck lock brackets off AND moving the backhoe with bucket against the door. Yet they tried bending the bottom half of the door open like zombies.
We also get batteries stolen regularly. And fuel siphoned.
Point is, your brackets are safe, unless they disappear along with the trailer. Especially with propane and batteries there as bait.
