Boat trailer comes loose - tragic.
It just happened not far away from me, I do not see any chains .... http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/boat-trailer-slips-off-truck-fatally-strikes-si-cyclist/ar-AAeiF5A?li=BBgzzfc
Forum Discussion
carringb wrote:
Hitch balls are strongest when they are in compression from having tongue weight on them.
If a hitch ball is torqued correctly, it's already under thousands of pounds of compression from the mechanical advantage of tightening the nut on the shank. A couple hundred pounds of tongue weight wouldn't make any difference, especially since that weight isn't static when the combo is being driven.
