Helped out a guy yesterday that had his trailer hitch jump off the ball. He forgot to latch the coupler, thank God he had chains that held. Upon impact it broke the tongue jack off so he was on the side of my road with an under sized floor jack and a block of wood trying to get the tongue high enough to go on the back of his big fancy 70,000 dollar truck. The tongue weight was WAY too much, so I'm surprised it jumped off the ball really. I went to my house and got a good jack and we got him going. If the chains had not held it could have been a disaster. So make sure your safety chains are plenty big enough and you have some decent hooks that aren't gonna bend out straight in the event she breaks loose.
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1985 Wellcraft V-20, Evinrude ETEC 150: SOLD
1979 Marine Trader 44, twin Ford Lehman 120s
2006 Panga 14, Tohatsu 20
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