Sabotage or just unlucky?
Submitted by Akers67 on Sat, 2014-04-26 20:51
We have been up in exmouth over the last week and the other day as we were retrieving my mates boat the Reece hitch came away from the tow bar as the pin was missing fortunately the chain held and we managed to winch his boat on and drive the car and boat off the ramp but when we came to a stop the boat kept going and smashed into my mates tailgate and glass, grrrrrrr still all good though lucky no one was hurt and lucky it didn't happen when doing 100 km/hr.
My point though is that I think some one has pulled the pin out at the car park and not that it has either sheared or come loose?
Interested to know if this has happened to someone else.
btw in excess of 100mm of rain today here could drop a line on the flooded roads!!
meglodon
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Wear
I have heard of a case where the banana retaining pin was nearly worn through.
heath
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Sabotage
Happened to me about a month a ago.
Travisd
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Run a bolt thru it
Hi tensile with a nyloc nut on the end and then tighten the geezers out of it
only prob is the high tensile bolt does rust after a while
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tim-o
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Yep, I always check the hitch
Yep, I always check the hitch before headin down to retrieve, don't trust no one, wankers. Reminds me, I gota get a small padlock for the pin in case of this. I always remove the tongue, saves walkin into it
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Shimka
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Sabotage, wankers everywhere
Sabotage, wankers everywhere that just like to mess with other people's stuff. I use a locking pin for my hitch, best $25 I've spent in a long time.
Swompa
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Had all the wheel nuts
Had all the wheel nuts 'fall' off once at Point Peron. Luckily as the wheel came off, it got stuck in the wheel arch so the trailer didn't hit the road.
roberta
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Have friends here
in Leeman and when coming in from fishing to put boat on trailer had a flat tyre, this happened so often they reported it to the Police. They then parked their 4x4/trailer right in front of sea rescue and no more flat tyres.
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C.P
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Sabotage
I'll have $10 on Sabotage to win.
kempy
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Defintley sounds like someone
Defintley sounds like someone stole it. You can buy the hitch pins with a key lock on them.
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troy fuller
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I've had some one steal
I've had some one steal flares out of our tinny, lucky we didnt need them that day we went out... Shit like that could cost some one there life
this was in exy at the caravan park
tot
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alot of pricks out there
agree with the rest with it sounding like theft.
I have had both shackles flogged off the trailer from the giant retirement village of Augusta. Lucky a resident walking by offered to give me a couple which I swapped a kg for - they were not my missing ones.
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OLD BANGA
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Theft
I noticed when we got back from our last trip up to Shark Bay that someone had removed the split pin and the holding pin from mthe Reese Hitch, the only think holding the hitch in was the small locking bolt on the side of the hitch that stops the hitch ratling when not towing. The boat and trailer could have come off any where on the way back to Kalbarri and done some serious damage or killed someone coming the other way. Very dissapointing that people can be that calous to remove the whole pin, what type of person are these people?????????????? It always pays to check and check again.
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OLD BANGA
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I will go with stolen
I don't have to worry about that capper any more as I replaced pin with hi tesile bolt then welded the nut so no chance of it going missin.
Also got rid of the shackles on the boat trailer and now use a heavy duty barrel lock...all but thief prove.
Can leave ute and trailer without the worry [ will my as new boat trailer still be there when I return ]