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check your trailer balls and couplers from time to time! just had mine come off today on the hiway doing 60mph! also use safety chains and breakaways.
thank god for my safety chains and breakaway. was on my way home empty from the scrap yard when my coupler decided to come off the ball on the bridge of all places. just got it hooked back up and rolling again. when i seen the state patrol coming the other way with its lights on. luckily i did not get caught. stay safe out there!
Had that happen to me last week. Loaded up the dump trailer, hitched up and away I went. Get to the yard, raise it and pull forward. Trailer is jerking around like it does when scrap falls out then rolls under the deck. I hop out and see the trailer is off the ball. Thing about some of these dumps, the weight shifts back when the bed is fully raised.
But why did it come und...DOH!
Yeah, I overlooked the fact I set a 2 5/16 down on a 2 inch ball. I use a tri ball and didn't even notice I had it set for the 2".
Then of course the trailer isn't even close to being in line with the ball to hook it back up, so I held the brake controller at full lock then pulled forward. It pulled it inline with the ball, switched it to the proper size and away I went.
During all of this a yard guy walked over and said "your trailer came off". Thanks, Captain Obvious.
I only use pintle hitches on my trailers (bumper pull-well class 5 hitch I mean)
Almost no way to lose a trailer-much safer than a ball.
Also way easier to hook up.
Also most thieves don't have pintle hitches so its an added anti theft device as well.
You can almost jacknife a pintle whereas if you jacknife a ball hitch you will bend/break the hitch.
I use a 15 ton pintle-best 200 bucks I ever spent
also, the best way to hook the chains on is by going under, up, and towards you though the safety chain loop/hole on your hitch
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