What a tragedy

[tractorshopper]

I have a triball B&W adjustable 10,000 lb hitch. I have a lock on it to prevent theft and it stays on my truck all the time unless I were to loan it out or put it on the Durango for some reason. I hear the arguments on here about bumping shins and more damage to whomever potentially rear ends me. I fail to follow them to the point of it should be a law though. It should be a law not to rear end me... Don't follow to close. Look where you're walking.

I look at my hitch as a tool like a 3PH on a tractor, etc. Why would I remove something that I use often? First, it's really heavy. Second, why would I waste my time and effort to remove and reinstall the truck's main tool? Third, my truck bed is pretty high and I use my triball as a step very often to get up into my truck bed.

If you legislate every potential could be problem, we'd no longer be allowed to do anything. Most foods would be off limits because if one person ate a certain dose or regularly enough, something could happen. Sports would be outlawed. Most work would be outlawed. Machinery of pretty much every kind would be outlawed, etc.

 

[TractorGuy]

In a perfect world people would care about other people and have enough common sense to act accordingly. In our world people don't give a rats behind about their fellow man and some don't even have enough sense to tie a mattress down before hauling it down the interstate. SOOOOOOOO we have laws.

 

[timswi]

In a perfect world people would care about other people and have enough common sense to act accordingly. In our world people don't give a rats behind about their fellow man and some don't even have enough sense to tie a mattress down before hauling it down the interstate. SOOOOOOOO we have laws.

That's true. Guessing either someone took the pin or the owner forgot to install it...Either way, it shouldn't have happened. My hitches come out the second I'm done..Too many shin dents to be lazy enough to leave it in these days. I keep the hitches in the trailer toolbox so no projectile risk..Just open the lid and install when needed. Have tool boxes on all my trailers. Only takes 30 seconds to install. If I don't have that much time available, I have no business towing anything.

 

[newbury]

In a perfect world people would care about other people and have enough common sense to act accordingly. In our world people don't give a rats behind about their fellow man and some don't even have enough sense to tie a mattress down before hauling it down the interstate. SOOOOOOOO we have laws.

In a perfect world where people care about other people and have enough common sense to act accordingly they wouldn't tail gate me so close at speed that they couldn't stop in time to NOT hit my hitch. And people would not walk so close to my truck that they could hit their shins.

I'd like to get a BIG pintle hitch to put back there

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

In a perfect world where people care about other people and have enough common sense to act accordingly they wouldn't tail gate me so close at speed that they couldn't stop in time to NOT hit my hitch. And people would not walk so close to my truck that they could hit their shins.

I'd like to get a BIG pintle hitch to put back there

Well said.

So, some people think I should take the hitch off my truck so that when I'm rear-ended by some idiot who's too busy texting to pay attention to his/her driving, the idiot's car won't be damaged as bad? :confused2:

 

[4570Man]

I don't care if other people hit their shins. Don't walk so close. I haven't ever hit my shins on someone else's trailer hitch. The trailer ball on the SUV is the only one we walk into so I take that one out.

 

[TMGT]

If I didn't have to occasionally change my BW adj. triball out for one of my trailers I'd weld it on!
The only time I tuck it under the truck is if I know I'm going to be parking in the city where I might have to parallel park.

When I had tow trucks there were parts that hung off the back, never heard anyone say anything about that being a problem, people would somtimes walk into the stinger on the rollback, if you can't miss that you should rethink your ability to walk.

 

[Howling]

As for having a tow ball on the back of your truck, I've been rear ended several times in stop and go traffic. The car hits my tow ball, bends up their plastic front bumper real bad, and there is absolutely no damage to my truck. For that reason alone, I love having my tow hitch in place.

I got rear ended last year. Car was off center so that my hitch went thru plastic bumper and hit end of frame rail. After her "sorry my flip flop slide off the brake pedal" realized my hitch was tilted down. It did protect my bumper. My truck went to body shop to get end of frame rails straighten and new receiver and hitch installed