WDH upgrade
After getting a nasty leg bruise last fall while hooking up our 3 year old Eaz-Lift (the bar slipped out of my had while hooking the chains) I started looking for a safer option. After reading severa...
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camp-n-family wrote:
You could have made the old hitch work safely. The idea is to use the tongue jack to raise the tongue and rear of vehicle enough to take the tension off the bars before attempting to release them.. You can then release the chains and latch with as little as a finger.
Use the same procedure to hook up. Back ball under tongue, lower tongue enough to close latch, then raise the tongue jack again while hooked to the vehicle (raising it too). Snap up the bars easily with little effort, retract the tongue jack and away you go.
Yep, thats the right way to hook them up and the way I do it, but there still was a problem getting the chains to catch on the Eaz Lift
I have seen a couple of folks try to hook them up without lifting the hitch off of the ball, not pretty and almost impossible to do with out a jack.
I first helped set up a WDH in the late 1950's so I have experienced a few challenges with these beasts.
Thanks for the reply(s) Happy travels to you!
