True, but scary, hitch story
After a day's tow I discovered this: It was very cold and raining very hard when I hitched up. And somehow I managed not to get the hitch socket completely on the ball before closing the latc...
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TomG2 wrote:Reality Check wrote:
Reason #42 why I hate balls..
No questions; it's latched or it's not.
Glad it worked out well for you...
Nothing is foolproof. I had a driver hitch up a twelve ton trailer behind one of our tandem dump trucks with the pintle hitch upside down. All that kept it on was the flimsy little safety catch. He used the jack to raise the trailer up and into the hitch from the bottom side.
^^^ lol, boy is that a true statement. I had a guy argue with me once that the pintle on the transfer truck was upside down. He couldn't wrap his mind around how it worked.
dodge guy wrote:
What is that contraption? I know what a pintle hitch is but that looks sketchy at best!
^^^it's a dirty, well used, WD hitch. Should I paint it or what? I sure don't want anything sketchy following me around...
