Thread: Article: Thank goodness for safety chains

lucky nothing worse happened

Dang ,thought I had done all things that could gone wrong! guess I skipped one !

good thing nothing bad come out of it

A friend of mine had a new 20' Cobia with a 200hp mercury that I was dying to ride in. Half way to the ramp from his house I told him to pull over, something was tickling my senses. Good thing. No chains, lights and the hitch wasn't closed. No incident but a lesson I've never forgotten. Good story.

As a part-time truck driver who occasionally pulls doubles, I have a comment and I hint.
When you hook up the chains to your vehicle, cross them the right side chain goes to left side hook, the left to the right.
The reason for this is if the trailer should come unhooked while you're traveling down the road the tongue cannot reach the ground to wreak havoc on the trailer and what's on it because they chains being crossed catches that tongue before it hits the surface.

don't forget to use the rubber keeper straps that keep the S hook in place...



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