Did my Andersen No-Sway WDH do this???
Or did the trailer service center? I'm not sure, what caused it, but after hooking up last night I noticed chunks of aluminum on the ground under my setup. I had just got my trailer back from serv...
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This image says it all to me...
Looks like approx 0.50" to 0.75" or so over lap
With that kind of over lap or potential interference...there is no way
it would NOT have torn a much BIGGER gouge
Plus, with that kind of over lap, don't think it could raise high enough
to do what your original pictures shows without messing up the bottom
on it's way up there
Gotta be the service folks and their fork lift
Another betcha that their fork end will match up with the marks AKA like
a bullet's rifling
To the comment that is okay to have this kind of damage...not for me
as think of the whole trailer's forces all focused on the coupler, FACT
That then has the rest of the tongue transfer those forces between
the truck and trailer via that tongue...
Sure okay for a while, but how about over time?
Repeat...you have two claims or that I'd have if me
#1 against the service company and their fork lift
#2 against the trailer OEM for workmanship
Looks like approx 0.50" to 0.75" or so over lap
With that kind of over lap or potential interference...there is no way
it would NOT have torn a much BIGGER gouge
Plus, with that kind of over lap, don't think it could raise high enough
to do what your original pictures shows without messing up the bottom
on it's way up there
Gotta be the service folks and their fork lift
Another betcha that their fork end will match up with the marks AKA like
a bullet's rifling
To the comment that is okay to have this kind of damage...not for me
as think of the whole trailer's forces all focused on the coupler, FACT
That then has the rest of the tongue transfer those forces between
the truck and trailer via that tongue...
Sure okay for a while, but how about over time?
Repeat...you have two claims or that I'd have if me
#1 against the service company and their fork lift
#2 against the trailer OEM for workmanship
