Dec-01-2013 07:35 PM
Dec-03-2013 06:05 AM
Dog Folks wrote:rdhetrick wrote:
To the OP - glad you're doing better.
But I just don't understand all the "fear" about stepping over. If you have trouble lifting your legs, or are too short to do it comfortably - fine, walk around, but there is nothing unsafe about stepping over. There is no pinch point, nothing is moving unless your doing something else seriously wrong. How do you get the safety chains hooked up? Use a long pole?
All of that "fearmongering" is unfounded.
I respectfully disagree. This is not "fear mongering," but rather a notice of a possible problem and that is what this forum is about. The sharing of ideas.
May you never fall over your hitch.
I fasten both safety chains from one side.
Dec-03-2013 03:56 AM
rdhetrick wrote:
To the OP - glad you're doing better.
But I just don't understand all the "fear" about stepping over. If you have trouble lifting your legs, or are too short to do it comfortably - fine, walk around, but there is nothing unsafe about stepping over. There is no pinch point, nothing is moving unless your doing something else seriously wrong. How do you get the safety chains hooked up? Use a long pole?
All of that "fearmongering" is unfounded.
Dec-03-2013 02:40 AM
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Dec-02-2013 07:00 PM
Dec-02-2013 05:31 PM
Dec-02-2013 04:47 PM
Dec-02-2013 01:52 PM
camperforlife wrote:
We all do it. Unhook the weight distribution bar on one side then step over the hitch to do the other side rather than walk around the truck.
I brought the trailer home after having a slide seal replaced and did exactly as I described above. I've done this more times than I can count. Well this time I stepped between the brake-away cable and the trailer frame without realizing it. I came down like I had been lassoed! I smashed my left shoulder into the truck bumper before I face planted into the gravel.
I have over 80K invested in two previous left shoulder surgeries and I certainly didn't need this. I wish I had taken the extra 15 seconds it would have taken to walk around the truck. Time will tell what my laziness cost me this time. I hope only it is only a few days of soreness. Please think about this before you step over the hitch!!!!
Dec-02-2013 12:43 PM
Dec-02-2013 12:14 PM
old guy wrote:
I'm old, I can't get my leg up that high any more.
Dec-02-2013 11:50 AM
old guy wrote:
after reading this post a second time to see some of the answers, I wonder just how much grease do you guys use on the hitch and bars? In my younger days I always climbed over the hitch and I have never gotten grease on my pants or if I am wearing shorts, my legs.
Dec-02-2013 11:47 AM
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