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It happened to me once with my SeaDoo right as I bought it. I trusted that the mechanic doing the set up knew what he was doing when he hooked it up to my vehicle. A couple miles down the road I noticed it bouncing a lot when I went intentionally slowly over some railroad tracks. I pulled over and sure enough he didn’t latch it. I can only imagine what would’ve happened had the tongue of that trailer fallen off and gotten jammed into the tracks while the safety chain was still attached.I bet he forgot to lock the hitch......I did that and luckily it was with jetskis and going slow. Just fell on the gound.....no damage! Hope his damage was limited!
Hats off to your buddy for helping the guy and not just pointing and staring and moving on down the road.Buddy of mine is in Myrtle and sent me this.... ended up helping the guy. Apparently his trailer came off the hitch somehow and his boat crashed into the back of his SUV. Sucks to be him!
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I always do this as well!I always get on my knees and make sure that the cleat is under the hitch ball. I think most problems are catching the cleat on the top end of the Ball.I also lock the pin so no worries about a pin slipping out. View attachment 165510