Recusant
Member
As long as thieves can't get to my guns they can have the trailer: its insured!
Trailer Hitch Locks
- Thread starter CZU
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There's a company in Tulsa that makes Rectangular security chains for the oil field business and they are sold by the foot and they ain't cheap but they are supposedly harder steel than bolt cutters are, you might Google it.
misswired
Absent Comrade
This subject reminds me of the reason I remove the lug nuts from my hunting lease trailer. One of our hunters keeps his Polaris Ranger on his trailer parked beside his house. (not very smart) He had a locking pin for the hitch, but he removed the lugs as an additional safety measure. One evening when he returned home from work he found a pickup - partially out his driveway- attached to the trailer, but one of the tires had come off the hub and the trailer frame was on the ground. The weight of the trailer and Ranger plus the sharp angle, prevented the thieves from being able to get it off the ball, so they split, leaving their truck behind. Thieves were tracked down.
I love a story with a happy ending.
Jon651
Member
These two have worked for decades, but, I don't live or park in high crime areas
Anyone can steal that trailer without even bothering with the lock just by using the next size smaller hitch ball. Any hitch locked like that will easily drop down over a smaller ball and as long as they don't hit any bumps hard enough to make the tongue bounce it will stay put long enough to leave the area.
I use to have a 19' Four Winns V6 ski boat that had a removeable tongue and hitch on it's trailer and it was designed to be easily removed so the trailer would be shorter so someone could store the boat in their garage, which I did. I just removed two nuts and pulled two big bolts out and then pulled the tongue and hitch off which I did a few times also while camping to make it more difficult to steal and I thought that was a simple but great idea.
flagman1776
Member
Years ago, one of my marina customers brought his boat in for us to set on his trailer first thing the next morning. He opened his garage door, ready to hook up the trailer. As he was getting a cup of coffee, he heard a noise and ran out in time to see his trailer turn the corner! He never got it back.
Cdog
Member
I live in a mostly rural area west of Atlanta.
The meth heads here have easy access to trucks and trailers large enough to get your trailers, 4 wheelers, tractors, mowers, etc even if they don't have wheels attached and are chained to an extremely "anxious" bull.
People on dope are crazy and will steal anything.
More than once my own family members have stolen from me.
I still use locks and chains. I have photos of this and the numbers in hopes it will make it more difficult for the insurers to say I didn't do my part to protect them.
The meth heads here have easy access to trucks and trailers large enough to get your trailers, 4 wheelers, tractors, mowers, etc even if they don't have wheels attached and are chained to an extremely "anxious" bull.
People on dope are crazy and will steal anything.
More than once my own family members have stolen from me.
I still use locks and chains. I have photos of this and the numbers in hopes it will make it more difficult for the insurers to say I didn't do my part to protect them.
