Safety chain placement
It seems like you are supposed to mount your safety chains (criss-cross - just learned that) on the hitch receiver mounted to the vehicle. Does it not make more sense to mount to the FRAME of the vehi...
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rockhillmanor wrote:pigman1 wrote:
... That was just before it left the road and hit the woods. A major weld on his RV hitch failed....
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AND.... Those two loops on either side of a hitch are worthless.I see many RV'ers hooking their tow chains to the metal loops on the side of the hitch.
I hooked up to them one day to pull my truck out of a snow bank and it split right open. And that's at a slow pull.
Don't see those rings holding up when your towed vehicle rips away from the tow vehicle and snaps that chain tight on them.
Soooo..... what are those "loops" for that are beside the hitch receiver??
Again, people are overthinking too much. Those are explicity designed for the safety chains and I will continue to hook up my safety chains to these explicitly designed loops.
