Receiver Hitch Must be Empty if No Trialer Attached?

[rivercat]

It is actually a good idea to take it out when not in use..... I have often seen severe frame damage result from rear end collisions when the hitch has been left in that may not have happedned other wise..... The greater the drop the greater the leaver... ... I don't give a dam about the knuckle head that hits my truck! but I sure care about my trucks being damaged!.

If this is true its a shame. You would think that the bolts would shear before the frame would crinkle.

 

[midlife crisis]

"Receiver Hitch Must be Empty if No Trailer Attached?"

That Figures- Now I'll get pullled over for my little propellor spinning in the wind.

 

[SnoKing]

I see a lot of ME ME ME in the posts on this subject. Inflick maximum damage to the other vehicle, no one should walk that close to my truck, I am to lazy to remove the insert when not using it etc. That is where America is headed, to a ME ME ME generation! SNOKING

 

[terrywerm]

Think about it for a second, Snoking... . this country is not HEADED there, it already IS there.

 

[nps]

I am to lazy to remove the insert when not using it etc. That is where America is headed, to a ME ME ME generation! SNOKING

Not too lazy - and I always remove it when I get home. But I'll be darned if I'm taking it out for the run from home to the RV storage lot and back. And I don't need it laying around the campsite while on the road - the receiver is the best storage place while camped. So if that makes me ME ME ME, so be it.

 

[midlife crisis]

NPS- dont mean to beat a lame horse, but after the little one & wife getting grease on them while unloading firewood or going into the cooler in the bed the first thing I do is take it out while camping. Fully agree on your other comment--

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

ME ME ME?



HARDLY!



It IS about ever-progressing of a police/nanny state constantly dreaming up new ways to intrude into our lives and "protect" us from every imaginal, and UNimaginal potential threat - THIS guy put it better than I can:



"i'm so thankful i live in a country full of bottom-feeding, ambulance chasing lawyers and imbeciles who spill hot coffee on themselves so now every company i do business with has already anticipated every possible "unconventional" way i might use their product and they've already applied a warning sticker, an alarm, a lockout or my very favorite, including a 3 page instruction manual that's grown to 94 pages because it's printed in 35 different languages. i've had it with this "nanny state" crap. mind your own business, leave me alone & stop trying to protect me from myself and should a few cretins "buy it" misusing a product, well there's too many idiotic people in this world anyway so it's no real loss and it's not called "stupid human tricks" for nothing AND they drive gas powered chevy so who cares. "



AMEN - and again, AMEN!

 

[nps]

NPS- dont mean to beat a lame horse, but after the little one & wife getting grease on them while unloading firewood or going into the cooler in the bed the first thing I do is take it out while camping. Fully agree on your other comment--

I keep a supply of plastic grocery bags in the trailer. As soon as I drop it I put one over the ball and loop the handles around the sway bar balls. Stays on even down the highway until I get ready to hitch up again.



If you do get grease on clothes, immediate application of paint thinner will take the grease out - won't even leave a stain on white fabric.



Don't ask how I know or why I use bags now. :-laf

 

[klenger]

My receiver is still a virgin, literally.

 

[Fireman]

:-laf :-laf :-laf



This is as good as the thread on Overnighting at Wally-World a couple of years ago !



Fireman

 

[CRuth]

Someone hits ME and I"m supposed to worry about the damage caused to their vehicle? /boggle

 

[Thomas]

This is as good as the thread on Overnighting at Wally-World a couple of years ago !

Some of the same participants too!