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Originally Posted by IKE
It may be worthwhile to bring a couple packs of these;
http://www.mcmaster.com/#92401a643/=tg77b
The actual hitch pins like this have a built in handle and a chain to keep the keeper attached.
We had pins with keepers like what we are supposed to use this year, and they would often become unsprung and then bounce out.
Anecdote. I was once hauling a manuer spreader back to our farm with one of these pins. I hit a bump, it can loose and the trailer passed me going down the hill. Not good. |
On a side note:Ive had(painful
) experience with the cotter pins in these breaking on my sailboat,I had two of these holding my sail-traveler-car onto the mail-sail blocks, the pin snapped and the blocks flew up, and the boom came accross and hit me square in the face
and broke the piece where the boom connects to the mast($80)
there plenty strong for the trailers though....