5th wheel bed saver

Bob Vaughn wrote:
I am contemplating purchasing a 5th wheel bed saver. Blue Ox is the only brand I can find. Surely there are other mfg. that make them or is the risk of not having one not that great.......

There are 2 types of bed savers:

One is the Blue Ox Bed Saver. This is "always activated" and nothing needs to be done for it to be prepared to catch the king pin. It's also about 4x to 5x more expensive than the next option.

The other one is Butch's Latch Kit. This requires you to slide a pin across the base of the hitch head in order for it to be ready to catch a pin. You can't just leave it and you can't hitch/unhitch with it in place. But, it's like 1/4 or 1/5 of the price of the Blue Ox.

Two entirely different levels of protection. IMO, if you're going to invest in this- the Blue Ox is the only way to go.

fj12ryder wrote:

Bob Vaughn wrote:

goducks10 wrote:
B&W makes a nice one:)

I went to their web site and did not see anything....

That's a bit of an inside joke, as B&W owners consider their(our) hitches to be drop proof. And they are.

Except for the guy with a B&W who dropped his. It wasn't a fault of the hitch- he latched it in the *open* position when he last unhitched (per the unhitching instructions from B&W). But, all hitches are fallible because people are stupid. :D (This coming from a B&W owner and fanboy!)