How do you organize your towing accessories?

[4570Man]

I leave steel balls and chains in the bed with no problem. I try to fit everything I can in the toolbox. The tool box isn't very secure, but it reduces the theft of opportunity.

 

[Renze]

I keep a pipe, a protective cloth, a can of oil, coolant, and a chaos of ratchet straps in the boot. Dont see, dont care.

 

[Garandman]

Planning to put some Nutserts in my aluminum trailer deck. Should I use aluminum, steel, or stainless inserts?

I’ll keep a round head bolt in thrm when not in use to minimize corrosion.

 

[CanDo]

To avoid galvanic corrosion I use aluminum in aluminum. Stainless will cause a reaction in aluminum and regular steel in aluminum will cause a reaction in both.
You can then use good quality galvanised bolts/screws in the aluminum nutserts as the galvanisation coats the steel and provides some isolation between the two. I'd also help it out with some anti-seize.
Good luck.

 

[MossRoad]

I have a '93 Suburban that has a nice, large storage compartment in the right rear. I keep a triple ball hitch in there, a couple recovery straps, a ring hitch, various tie-downs, a 12v lamp with 20' cord, a raincoat, some 20' 3/8" chains, a magnetic tail-light kit with 25' of trailer wire, a bag of ear plugs, a 50' rope throw bag for water rescue, a few others things and sometimes a 5' fishing rod.

On my car hauler trailer, I mounted a pickup-bed resin toolbox on the a-frame that opens wing doors from the sides. I keep chains, tie downs, load binders, an ax, a shovel, a 5' crowbar, a machete, various pins and clips, some spray lube, some hand tools, a bundle of wire marker flags, a roll of paper towels, a grease gun, and some other stuff.

 

[Shaneard]

I keep what I need in the toolbox of the truck or the one mounted on the tongue of the gooseneck. Couple years ago I had my friend at powdercoat paint all mine so they would stick out if someone wanted to “borrow” one.

 

[MossRoad]

Did the powder coating interfere with any clearances? We had that done on some equipment at my old employer, and many pieces then wouldn't fit inside other pieces.

 

[Shaneard]

Haven't ran into any issues on this stuff, I know on some other things I've had done I either had to sand a little off/out to make things fit but most of it I can accommodate for ahead of time.