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Title: Toad and Hitches
Post by: larryh on January 20, 2007, 06:45:26 PM
PLEASE CHECH YOUR HITCHES.

Yesterday and today 3 units coming into Quartzsite have lost their toads just flat came unhitched or hitch broke so far 3 totalled toads injury's 0 thank god all rolled over and left roadway all three received citations for faulty equipt.

LarryH
Title: Re: Toad and Hitches
Post by: Eagle on January 21, 2007, 06:26:25 AM
Would be nice to know the brand of the tow bars and if they were at fault, or just the home built hitches were at fault.
Title: Re: Toad and Hitches
Post by: larryh on January 21, 2007, 10:20:40 AM
Eagle I towed 2 of them in and all brand names hitches it's the mounting brackets on toads or on one it looks like someone pulled hitch pin out.

After any stop do your walk around and check that hitch.

LarryH
Title: Re: Toad and Hitches
Post by: pete81eaglefanasty on January 21, 2007, 10:33:23 AM
 On my Eagle last year the tow hitch on the bus broke it's bolts, a Reese Hitch and factory supplied bolts. I caught it when I stopped for the night. No damage to tow vechile.


           Pete & Jean
            Fantasy
Title: Re: Toad and Hitches
Post by: jjrbus on January 21, 2007, 04:04:23 PM
 Were there safty cables involved?  Anyone out there can take some pictures? This is scarry stuff!
Title: Re: Toad and Hitches
Post by: larryh on January 22, 2007, 06:11:29 AM
It looks like folks are playing with our equipt in Quartzsite a fiver lost yesterday they stopped at big tent show for a few hours and made it about a hundred yards and fiver came off pickup hitch handle was pulled when we lifted it up.

So padlocks on hitches may be the way to go.

LarryH
Title: Re: Toad and Hitches
Post by: jjrbus on January 22, 2007, 07:43:15 PM
First off, whats a fiver?



Started a new thread
Nick-
Title: Re: Toad and Hitches
Post by: larryh on January 23, 2007, 03:38:17 AM
A FIVER is a fifth wheel trailer sorry.

LarryH