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37chief

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I'll bet I am not the only one to have done this a time or two. Stan
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I get the jack on my dump trailer about once per year when moving with the tractor. Repaired so often, it probably should be replaced next time
 
Guilty. Last year I think ..... I spent a while fixing the innards of my trailer jack with parts from another I had laying around. It's the flip up style.

When I went to park the trailer I just used the skid Steer with a ball in one of the forks. I never flip the jack up, just pick it up and go. Ended up snagging a root with the foot of the jack and mangling the outer housing. Pushed it right back to the barn and swapped all the guts over to a different housing.

On the plus side, it ripped the root right out of the drive so it won't cause any more trouble.
 
Not always your fault.
The one on my car hauler slowly turns itself down on rough roads.
Twice now I have hauled it to a friends place an hour north of here.
Just as I was reaching his driveway I could hear a tinging noise.
Finally figured out what was happening so now after the jack is cranked up it gets a tarp strap on it to hold the handle from turning.
 
Not since I was a kid. Dad wasn't happy. I always unplug the light/brake cord first then take the trailer stand up all the way. I always open shed doors all the way. I always open the gates all the way. ETC. Dad passed away in 1982 and Im still looking over my shoulder. Guess its paid off over the years.
 
So far I have never had that happen yet and hope it never does happen. Those 12,000 lb. jack stands are not cheap.
 
Last spring I hooked up the brillion packer behind the disc and used the disc the raise it up. Hooked up the hydraulics and forgot to raise the jack. When I started discing I noticed a rut and thought something was caught in the disc and then I seen it, A $200 mistake.
 
Yep btdt. You haven't lived till your trailer passes you going down the road.......or so I've heard.
Ron
 
Tony, I know what you mean about having your Dad still watching. When I would go delivering equipment with him I would unchain and throw everything on the ground and he taught me to leave the chains and binders at least hooked to the truck. And if I threw them in the mud I got to pick all of them up.I automatically do that with my boys, always thinking about Dad.
 
Dad went to putting a block under them . He says then you don't bend it if you forget. That's his excuse. I say when you hitch up do the jack first thing. Like the fuel cap. I put it on when I pull the nozzle out. I have bent a few jacks though.
 
I crank up the jack first too after bending a couple of jacks. Last time was on a brand new auger owned by a neighbor. I went straight to the dealer and bought him a new jack. I had one jack that would plow a furrow without bending, I forget what it was on.
 
I had a similar issue. I unhooked the trailer raised it off the ball and finished unloading a few things off the pickup. My 4 year old - seeing how the jack worked lowered the hitch (it turns easier that way) just enough to catch the ball - and the jack has a dolly wheel. Pulled ahead with the pickup and wondered why the trailer was moving.... It bounced off the ball and rolled down the hill through a lagoon fence and flipped over onto its side. Just what I wanted to start working on at 8:00 that night. Bent the jack enough that it still works but gets very tough once its a 1/3 up.
 
I have one worse than that on my camper right now.
Camper was in a area of my yard that was flooding.
Went in with tractor and used ball on 3 point to lift up.
Told son in law the roll jack up all the way.
He went wrong way and rolled it all the way down.
Could not tell as it was down in the water.
It plowed a nice furrow for about 6 feet before it bent.
 
I don't think he's talking about the bent jack (who HASN'T bent at least one?) I believe the question is about the open catch on the hook. Leaving that open will ruin your day. I've left the latch up on a ball hitch, thankfully the trailer never jumped off. I also left the rear slider unlatched one time and it worked it's way open about 18". When I went to check on things at the first stop (for gas) the llamas were just staring at the opening, fortunately they didn't want to jump out. About had a heart attack thinking of all the bad things that could have happened on the road had they wanted to bolt.
 
RBnSC, becareful what you say this form don't like people that don't hook up safety chains, they will call you names
 
After making about every mistake you could make hooking up a trailer I made a new rule for myself. Even though I already thought I checked everything, I do one more total walk around the unit at the end of the drive before I pull onto the road. It doesn't keep me from screwing up in the yard but at least I cut way down on risk out on the roads.
 
My first trailer was a 4x8 utility made from an old Falcon axle and a lot of steel in the 1960's. I bought it in the 1980's and by the 90's the tongue was pretty wore out. The last time it came off the ball and passed me it had a JD #5 mower in the bed, skittered across two lanes of busy road toward a steep incline into a 40' swale. Crashed into the utility pole at the edge of the road. That was the only thing that saved it. I left it there and went home for a tractor to drag it out, parked it in the fence row and never took it on the road again. Four years ago I hauled it out, loaded it on the car hauler that replaced it, and took it out to the farm. It now has a new (and final) life behind a tractor doing general hauling on the lanes around the place. Actually a lot more useful now than it was before.
 
I've fixed a good many that look like that over the years. Surprising how many wives and brothers-in-law there are that will do that. Lol
 
I never said it was me.... Well not out loud. As far as calling me names I Have been spoken to unkindly before, so I post more often just to tick them off.
Ron
 
That's why I get the implement jack that pins to a tube. A small piece of angle welded in the proper place over the tongue, with a hole blown in it, stows it out of the way. Once the hitch is on the ball you pull the pin and stow the jack, just like on a piece of equipment.
 
(quoted from post at 10:55:10 03/17/16) If that pintle hitch will latch with a coupler on the ball, he has bigger problems than a bent jack.
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I believe that pintle has a bottom jaw that accepts a standard bolt on ball. Works as a pintle too. My concern was what appears to be an inop breakaway coupling. From the perspective of the pic, either the chains need to be longer or the tether shorter. But with a pic it's hard to say. The DOT cop in me could go on, but I'd just make people mad..........
 
I thought I was fairly legal. I have a 2 5/16 ball bolted to the pintal hitch. I have a 5/16 in bolt to keep the traile reciver from rattling open The brake away battery is always charging from the truck battery. Brake away cable hooked to the truck. Break away chains hooked to 5/8 clevis hooks under my truck. Graded chains holding tractor front, same on the rear. Let me know if you see something I should fix, so I don't get pulled over. Stan
 
I can honestly say I have never done it. I guess I learned my lesson vicariously through the customers who do, and then ask me to fix their mess up.
 
That is a standard 2 5/16 inch ball not different that other trailer ball, mounted to the lower pintal hitch. There is no reason for it to jump off with the right size trailer receiver properly secured. Stan
 
There's always that sick feeling you get instantly when you hear/feel the commotion, and know exactly what you've done.
 
(quoted from post at 21:58:36 03/17/16) I thought I was fairly legal. I have a 2 5/16 ball bolted to the pintal hitch. I have a 5/16 in bolt to keep the traile reciver from rattling open The brake away battery is always charging from the truck battery. Brake away cable hooked to the truck. Break away chains hooked to 5/8 clevis hooks under my truck. Graded chains holding tractor front, same on the rear. Let me know if you see something I should fix, so I don't get pulled over. Stan
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Will the breakaway pop before the chains come tight? Is the tether wound around the chains or anything? Is it attached to the frame of the truck or something that isn't likely to come unhitched or is it hitched to a chain or maybe the pin holding the pintle shaft in the recvr? Those are basic questions that anyone needs to consider. The breakaway has to be free to be pulled prior to the chains coming tight or it's useless. That's a biggie.
 
If this reply is for me, I have that style hitch and I still say you shouldn't be able to lock the "clamp" down with a trailer coupled to the ball!
 
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