Base plate pulled off
Coming out of the movie theater today we spotted a MH stopped with all the towing gear on the ground behind it and no car in sight. We took the man back a couple of blocks and he found his toad, it ha...
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For ya'alls information, the law says that you must have a safety cable/chain capable of holding control of the toad if any part of the hitch fails.
The receiver on the MH, nor the base plates on the toad, are part of the hitch.
Many base plates have provision for connecting the safety cables to the base plates, not around the frame.
When I built my base plates, I stopped at the RV Towing place that specializes in 4 down, to get some short loop cables to go around the frame, but he didn't have any. Then is when he informed that they always just connect to the base plates, that that was all the law required. So I went back home and welded 2 loops onto the base plates, and connected the coiled cables to the loops on the base plates. Since then I have seen others the same way
The '05 Jeep I had before, I built the base plates also, but I installed loop cables around the frame to connect the coiled cables to, only because I thought the law required it.
The receiver on the MH, nor the base plates on the toad, are part of the hitch.
Many base plates have provision for connecting the safety cables to the base plates, not around the frame.
When I built my base plates, I stopped at the RV Towing place that specializes in 4 down, to get some short loop cables to go around the frame, but he didn't have any. Then is when he informed that they always just connect to the base plates, that that was all the law required. So I went back home and welded 2 loops onto the base plates, and connected the coiled cables to the loops on the base plates. Since then I have seen others the same way
The '05 Jeep I had before, I built the base plates also, but I installed loop cables around the frame to connect the coiled cables to, only because I thought the law required it.
