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j-d
Sep 08, 2016Explorer II
BradW wrote:
I graduated first in my class from the University of Hard Knocks and Paranoia.
No, I I I was First. Must've been a different Year. In my case, probably different Decade, different Century.
We had a boat trailer that all of a sudden dropped off the hitch. Or so I thought. Looking at it, the part that clipped to the Ball was still on the ball, all locked down. The rest of the coupler looked like it was sawed off clean, by a professional machinist, right where trailer tongue ended and the hitch extended to the ball by itself. I'd learned to not clap the brakes on. We rolled to a stop and once I saw what happened, we chained the trailer up for the last few miles and got home that way.
But the example I gave you, for a Drop bar, came from right here on RV.net, and was from towing a vehicle.
BradW
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