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Close call, luck was on your side that day for sure.
I was headed to Sardis early one morning. My boat was only a few months old at the time I got about 20 miles away from the house where there was a left turn to be made at an intersection. All of a sudden the truck is being yanked from the back. I pull over and the safety cables kept the trailer connected. I still don't understand how I made it that far before it jumped the ball. So yes safety chains are a must.
Glade you and your equipment are ok.
Must be something in the air, Yesterday when leaving work I observed a guy working on his boat trailer on the side of the road. His issue was the magic tilt trailer tilted the wrong way when traveling down the highway.
luckey dog
lucky
Haha man, that coulda been real bad
You could a been back fishing trail or And all. That would have scR Rd them crappie to death.
oops
easy to forget when your excited to get on the water... thanks for posting!
lucky nothing worse happened
Dang ,thought I had done all things that could gone wrong! guess I skipped one !White Flag Icon
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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number of years ago I knew two brothers who had been commercial fisherman on ky lake for decades . they had a routine of each having a job to do each morning to prepare for the days fishing and always left before first light.this particular day it was very foggy and cold they decided to fish with one boat instead of the usual two rigs.drove about ten miles to the lbl side of the lake in the dark and fog arrived at launch ramp and went to back down to the water only to discover no boat attached to truck.each had thought the other had dropped trailer onto ball and hooked it up and being foggy hadn't noticed trailer wasn't there . so even old pros screw up :Roflwould see them often when fishing in the years after incident and was always something to make me grin inside.