Do you lock or unlock the hitch while pulling your TT?

Huntindog wrote:

Gldetrailer wrote:
So in reality, only the TW was keeping the tongue on the ball and no WD is needed to keep it on the ball either and your whole premise of WD keeping it on the ball is not true.

Do you read what you write? Do you understand it?
You actually make my point quite well. That trailer did not come off the ball in spite of not being latched on. If he had used WD, it would not have mattered as it could not have come off... As it was with no WD, it sure could have. Think of WD as a huge multi layered very stout coupler pin.

No, you don't seem to understand, TWO "WRONGS" DOES NOT MAKE IT "RIGHT".

Weight alone simply cannot 100% guaranteed that the hitch will "always" stay on the ball.

WD was never, ever designed to "prevent" the tongue to come off the ball.

My illustration shows that absolutely no WD is required to keep the tongue on the ball but only if no freak accidents happen like someone pulling out in front of you, no sudden stops, no sudden changes in directions.. In other words a "perfect world".

Get real, there is no "perfect world", things break, accidents happen and a simple $1.30 pin can help keep your whole world from suddenly being trashed..

I don't trust WD, the bar and contact areas can and do wear out, bars can pop out, brackets can get bent, broken, damaged.. Some of those brackets are so cheaply made even the act of latching them bends them. People have lost WD bars while driving..

The only latch I can say has some sort of chance of not opening without a pin is a "clam shell"..


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But, even that hitch has a hole for a pin..

in spite of what you may think, the pin hole is there, it should be used..