This afternoon we were leaving a friend’s cabin in northern Wisconsin and I went to hitch up my snowmobile trailer. I backed the truck up to the trailer and my friend lowered the hitch onto the ball and hooked up the safety cables and lights. When he said I was good to go we left. About a mile down the road the hitch jumped off the ball. Luckily, we were going pretty slow, there was no traffic, and the trailer tracked straight behind the truck. The safety cables held and did their job. Scared the heck out of me!
My friend has a travel trailer, boat trailer, and at least 3 utility trailers and tows often so I trusted everything was done correctly. Lessons learned: 1: in the future I will personally hitch any trailer attached to a vehicle I am driving myself. 2: if I ever get distracted or interrupted I will start over. 3: if anyone else does anything I will double check their work. I’ll double check my work too, every time.
We were extremely fortunate that no one was hurt and nothing was damaged.
Be careful out there!
Mark
PS. The trails were pretty good!
My friend has a travel trailer, boat trailer, and at least 3 utility trailers and tows often so I trusted everything was done correctly. Lessons learned: 1: in the future I will personally hitch any trailer attached to a vehicle I am driving myself. 2: if I ever get distracted or interrupted I will start over. 3: if anyone else does anything I will double check their work. I’ll double check my work too, every time.
We were extremely fortunate that no one was hurt and nothing was damaged.
Be careful out there!
Mark
PS. The trails were pretty good!