Re: [RC] Trailer Safety Chains...A MUST 3X I've lost one &*Safety suggestion - Truman Prevatt
What I've seen happen on a gooseneck is the pin that goes down to hold
the plate around the ball in place either gets bent a little, gets
corroded or the spring gets weak ( or a little of all three) and it
does not go all the way to seat properly. I should run through the hole
in the top, through the plate and into the hole in the bottom. If it
doesn't it can work out and the plate open up.
On a gooseneck you should always check this - and recheck it at stops.
I don't think a gooseneck coming off is quite as dicey as a bumper
pull, but still use the chains. I'd sure hate to look in the rear view
mirror and find that sucker coming hell bent for leather toward the cab
of the truck.
Truman
CS wrote:
I regularly pulled a gooseneck and only knew one person who
hooked up in the dark; drove 50 miles, mostly down hill before having
his gooseneck come loose as he pulled up his hill in his driveway. We
assume it was sitting on a closed latch...? luckily his tailgate held
the trailer till he got stopped.
Cindy
-- "It is necessary to be noble, and yet take humility as a basis
"It
is necessary to be noble, and yet
take humility as a basis.
It is necessary
to be exalted, and yet take modesty as a foundation."
