If you never use the top and bottom hole in that hitch, install a bolt with locking nut in both, if you lose your pins, the worst that can happen is that the hitch will slide up and down ;)
It's really scary when trailers go wonky. I had one come off the ball on the freeway one time. Safety chains saved the day. I just lightly hit the brakes and slowly got off the side. It rear-ended my truck but didn't do any damage because it hit the bottom part of the hitch instead of my bumper
Glad nothing major was broke. My guess is the chains pulled out the safety clip from the old pin, while making a turn. Drive the truck so it is pointing 90 degrees from trailer, as if you are going around a turn, Stop, and walk back to see what the chains are doing. I bet they are stretched up to those pins.
I would also suggest a third of those pins as a safety measure in the hole below the adjustable hitch (as long as it isn't all the way down, it will work). So if these 2 pins should ever break again, the hitch will be prevented from falling all the way down.
Looks like the safety chains are twisted up to shorten. BAD JUJU When a chain that is hanging freely and untwisted is shock overloaded, the links stretch but hold. The chain is junk, but this is what chain is designed to do. When the chain is twisted to shorten it, and is fixed at both ends so it cant untwist, like at the tongue and vehicle, when it is shock loaded and tries to straighten out, the twist puts a rotary motion to the links which the link welds are not designed to hold. The chain literally explodes. If you must shorten a safety chain, use tie wire, a shock cord or wire tie. TIP Measure a new chain and record inside length and width. If safety chains are used, simply measure links to check for damage. Damage = longer and narrower.
HI bill I want to try and help you on your trailer hitch problem now on that hitch it needs to be solid I know it won’t be as easy to pull some pins but they won’t come out when going down the road either I would put two grade 8 or 5 bolts in the hitch and put two nuts on each bolt so they will lock tight and won’t vibrate off and when you draw them tight it will keep your hitch tighter as well so it will stay strong hope this helps
I’m sure they’d say “ you must not have locked it” they’d have a way around it I’m sure. it’s not until the class action law suits that things get noticed lol
BILLSTMAXX what it will do is help distribute the tractor weight more and put less stress on the tongue and coupler cause what is the trailer you currently have rated for under 8 thousand pounds if you had a 10-14 thousand pound trailer you could haul the 110tlb and have the security of knowing that taking the AR or Boariss around and if the slingshot needs work you can take it to the dealership
I have the same hitch but i have the scale in mine and in 2 years. it has had to be replaced because the scale stoped working and the lock has had to be replaced because it wouldn't work any more
Would be quite handy if you could put an SD card in the reversing camera and have it record like a dash cam, gives it another use along with being a backup camera
@@joshdupont2209 I am 100% against Exemptions because of all the stuff I see on literally a daily basis. Today, some old person drove a rickety beater van into my lane to back three car length into a parking space, last week it was two young drivers in a row coming into my lane from oncoming as they were texting while pulling trailers, the week before that, it was this middle aged guy backed up to a door to load paint into his creepy looking white unmarked van obstructing the whole freaking passageway. All of this in a secure/private area while I was riding my motorcycle. We won't go into all the times I see people with faulty trailers, tow vehicles/safety equipment. Come on, get it together. Public roads are not an acceptable area to utilize as testing grounds. Contrary to belief, anything that requires a key/code/fingerprint to operate the functions is by law in both U.S. and Canada are security purposes only. Locks used as safety equipment are illegal and unsafe for use as safety equipment at any level.
@@chefmatthammerschmidt8408 well faulty equipment is illegal. I dint think there needs to be an inspection for that. Get pulled over and given a ticket for that. But then again I keeo my distance from people so If they have brake lights out I can see getting closer to them and I can brake. Or I wait until I know people will stop at red lights until I take off.
I've had ² bad experiences one while using a regular tow bar the car I was pulling up a steep hill came off the ball and stayed hooked up by the chains. Looked like the car was trying to pass me. Second one was pulling a used Jon boat home on the trailer the coupler opened up was also hanging from the chains.
BILLSTMAXX okay I just know it’s very easy to sometimes 😂. But I agree I wouldn’t think you would want to depend on just the lock portion to keep it on there.
I'd get some rod that is just big enough to fit through hole on hitch. Drill a hole through the rod to accept pad lock. Weld a flat piece opposite of hole and pad lock that sucker on there. Hell, do two rods just to be safe!
never ever use those stupid lock able pins that need keys or combination just hit them with a hammer and they pop off or break easily. especially with load of a trailer bouncing over time. only ever use the pin type u used to replace them with or the hitch pins that u have in receiver meant for towing use.
Yes but if you had a tractor on would thatve happened. Mom had her main brake line blow on her trk like your old one in Minnesota and were from michigan. She said glad i had parked the fifth wheel but i said wish you hadnt because trl brakes. So you never know how the other way would happen
Well I know at truck stops drivers are know to pull the 5th wheel leaver while a driver sleeps if they are mad at them. Maybe someone thought they be funny and partly pulled your lock
Bill i know there are evil people in this world . Could someone have tampered with pins since you said there were marks on the hitch. I don't know if it was out of your sight on the trip.
The importance of safety chains!
So many tow without them!
If you never use the top and bottom hole in that hitch, install a bolt with locking nut in both, if you lose your pins, the worst that can happen is that the hitch will slide up and down ;)
CROSS YOUR SAFETY CHAINS AND IT WILL HOLD THE TONGUE UP.
That was a minty repair, 👌 peg would be proud!
lol
Man sorry that happened to you glad you were able to have a something to get you home!!
Hello from Southern California, glad your safe and nothing seriously damaged. Stay safe my friend.
Bill, I use stainless steel shoulder bolts with stainless steel nylock nuts. Difficult to steal, no rust, and relative easy to change.
It's really scary when trailers go wonky. I had one come off the ball on the freeway one time. Safety chains saved the day. I just lightly hit the brakes and slowly got off the side. It rear-ended my truck but didn't do any damage because it hit the bottom part of the hitch instead of my bumper
Imagine if you had loaded a tractor on the trailer and the pin were to break...
Should you put one bolt one way and the other one the opposite way of the first one
Glad nothing major was broke. My guess is the chains pulled out the safety clip from the old pin, while making a turn. Drive the truck so it is pointing 90 degrees from trailer, as if you are going around a turn, Stop, and walk back to see what the chains are doing. I bet they are stretched up to those pins.
I would also suggest a third of those pins as a safety measure in the hole below the adjustable hitch (as long as it isn't all the way down, it will work). So if these 2 pins should ever break again, the hitch will be prevented from falling all the way down.
Nice vid
Good thing it happened fairly close to home and just before taking the off ramp.
Wow you are very lucky I've seen so many trailers without safety chains hooked up right or not at all
Them attachment pins are tuff I use them on my hitch.
Looks like the safety chains are twisted up to shorten. BAD JUJU When a chain that is hanging freely and untwisted is shock overloaded, the links stretch but hold. The chain is junk, but this is what chain is designed to do. When the chain is twisted to shorten it, and is fixed at both ends so it cant untwist, like at the tongue and vehicle, when it is shock loaded and tries to straighten out, the twist puts a rotary motion to the links which the link welds are not designed to hold. The chain literally explodes. If you must shorten a safety chain, use tie wire, a shock cord or wire tie. TIP Measure a new chain and record inside length and width. If safety chains are used, simply measure links to check for damage. Damage = longer and narrower.
If you drill that pin. You should put a lynch pins. That should keep in place.
I really don't like the idea of an aluminum hitch.... and bill you could really use a heavier trailer for the tractors of that size...
HI bill I want to try and help you on your trailer hitch problem now on that hitch it needs to be solid I know it won’t be as easy to pull some pins but they won’t come out when going down the road either I would put two grade 8 or 5 bolts in the hitch and put two nuts on each bolt so they will lock tight and won’t vibrate off and when you draw them tight it will keep your hitch tighter as well so it will stay strong hope this helps
You were very very lucky tgsg you did not lose the trailer. I see a ton of people down here that never use the safety chains. I hope they see this vid
bill you should get a four or a six inch drop sold cast hitch for your truck and trailer so that would never happen agin. or put bolts in it.
I put a rubber cover for those latches. They are not to expensive. You should be able to get them from the cap dealer or online.
It would be interesting to see what the manufacturer had to say about that.
I’m sure they’d say “ you must not have locked it” they’d have a way around it I’m sure. it’s not until the class action law suits that things get noticed lol
Wow Bill, that was unreal......
Bill maybe it's time to get a 83 inch wide and 20 foot long trail
that’s not much bigger than this one
BILLSTMAXX what it will do is help distribute the tractor weight more and put less stress on the tongue and coupler cause what is the trailer you currently have rated for under 8 thousand pounds if you had a 10-14 thousand pound trailer you could haul the 110tlb and have the security of knowing that taking the AR or Boariss around and if the slingshot needs work you can take it to the dealership
BILLSTMAXX that was your complaint about this trailer that the slingshot doesn’t fit
I have the same hitch but i have the scale in mine and in 2 years. it has had to be replaced because the scale stoped working and the lock has had to be replaced because it wouldn't work any more
pin it like I did. the locks are garbage. mine seized up once too
Well the safety chains work
Put a bolt in the bottom hole so if pins come out the hitch wont come off all the way
First time ever the safety chains actually did something
Would be quite handy if you could put an SD card in the reversing camera and have it record like a dash cam, gives it another use along with being a backup camera
or be able to look at it on the fly.
Speaking of pumpkins, hows the garden doing ?
Switch your trailers over to pintle hitches. Simple strong and have never heard of one coming unhooked
much bigger trailer than this one they are pintles
Nothing about the ball failed, just the adjustable hitch...which he'd still need if he switched to pintles to obtain level trailers...
Holy shit this channel still exists! Haven’t been here sense farming sim 13
aboot time you came back lol
That sucks and bad for the lock company if they can come off
You're supposed to cross your safety chains so they form a basket and catch the tongue of the trailer in case this happens.
the way their attached on the trailer you can’t cross them.
When was your most recent DOT inspection?
DOT inspection? They have to do that in Canada to haul a trailer privatly?
@@joshdupont2209 I am 100% against Exemptions because of all the stuff I see on literally a daily basis. Today, some old person drove a rickety beater van into my lane to back three car length into a parking space, last week it was two young drivers in a row coming into my lane from oncoming as they were texting while pulling trailers, the week before that, it was this middle aged guy backed up to a door to load paint into his creepy looking white unmarked van obstructing the whole freaking passageway. All of this in a secure/private area while I was riding my motorcycle. We won't go into all the times I see people with faulty trailers, tow vehicles/safety equipment. Come on, get it together. Public roads are not an acceptable area to utilize as testing grounds. Contrary to belief, anything that requires a key/code/fingerprint to operate the functions is by law in both U.S. and Canada are security purposes only. Locks used as safety equipment are illegal and unsafe for use as safety equipment at any level.
@@chefmatthammerschmidt8408 well faulty equipment is illegal. I dint think there needs to be an inspection for that. Get pulled over and given a ticket for that.
But then again I keeo my distance from people so If they have brake lights out I can see getting closer to them and I can brake. Or I wait until I know people will stop at red lights until I take off.
I've had ² bad experiences one while using a regular tow bar the car I was pulling up a steep hill came off the ball and stayed hooked up by the chains. Looked like the car was trying to pass me. Second one was pulling a used Jon boat home on the trailer the coupler opened up was also hanging from the chains.
It might sound like a stupid question to ask but did you maybe forget to lock the lock. I know sometimes it can be easy to forget so just wondering.
very easy to. and it should have some sort of backup like clips on the other side of the pins. but no I checked it when I put the hitch on the truck.
BILLSTMAXX okay I just know it’s very easy to sometimes 😂. But I agree I wouldn’t think you would want to depend on just the lock portion to keep it on there.
I'd get some rod that is just big enough to fit through hole on hitch. Drill a hole through the rod to accept pad lock. Weld a flat piece opposite of hole and pad lock that sucker on there. Hell, do two rods just to be safe!
never ever use those stupid lock able pins that need keys or combination just hit them with a hammer and they pop off or break easily. especially with load of a trailer bouncing over time. only ever use the pin type u used to replace them with or the hitch pins that u have in receiver meant for towing use.
What princess Auto do you go to
well this day was the new market one
Yes but if you had a tractor on would thatve happened. Mom had her main brake line blow on her trk like your old one in Minnesota and were from michigan. She said glad i had parked the fifth wheel but i said wish you hadnt because trl brakes. So you never know how the other way would happen
Well I know at truck stops drivers are know to pull the 5th wheel leaver while a driver sleeps if they are mad at them. Maybe someone thought they be funny and partly pulled your lock
Bill i know there are evil people in this world . Could someone have tampered with pins since you said there were marks on the hitch. I don't know if it was out of your sight on the trip.
Bill next time you use the trailer cross your chains
the way their attached to the trailer you can’t cross them.
BILLSTMAXX I’d change that , so you can cross the chains.. as it is law in Ontario to cross your chains .
@@462ANIMAL I'm from Texas didn't know it's a law there .
That happened to about three weeks ago
To me
Hi
Oh crap , good thing it didn’t come up and hit your truck. If you have an air chisel.. it will push out stuff like that .