Anonymous-0
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Anyone Know of a Lock or a way to make one to lock trailer when its parked? It's a Titan Trailer, Don't know the brand of the hitch?
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weaver distribution sells gooseneck locks.
But you know what I do that's pretty cool? I run small chains through the holes in both sides of the rear axle wheels, tying them together. Cumbersome, but a lot of chains wrapped around the wheels looks like a mess to fool with to someone.
Just last month, I also welded a fat tab on the trailer jack shaft and it's hidden behind the frame of the trailer. This tab gets flipped up and locked to the trailer frame so that the jack shaft cannot be rotated. Can barely get to the lock with bolt cutters.
But you know what I do that's pretty cool? I run small chains through the holes in both sides of the rear axle wheels, tying them together. Cumbersome, but a lot of chains wrapped around the wheels looks like a mess to fool with to someone.
Just last month, I also welded a fat tab on the trailer jack shaft and it's hidden behind the frame of the trailer. This tab gets flipped up and locked to the trailer frame so that the jack shaft cannot be rotated. Can barely get to the lock with bolt cutters.
steel ball your trailer's size & weld to a steel plate. Weld heavy chains to the plate. When the ball is in the socket the chains are wrapped up over the gooseneck & locked with heavy lock. chains & lock to be too big for boltcutters. Or just loosen the two bolts & let the pipe slide down & out & take it with you. That worked good til the pro theives started carrying their own pipe.
Funny you should post this - I have a brand new gooseneck lock that I am going to sell. Got it a year or more ago for the warden"s horse trailer but she doesn"t want to fool with using it. We live in the country and, in all honesty, someone would probably steal something else before the horse trailer. Let me know if you are interested. I would sell it for $30 shipped. I think it sold for 40 or so new. Thanks.
Do what my Dad did years ago, switch the ball and hitch around, put the ball on the trailer and the coupler in the truck bed. We can park our trailer anywhere and not worry about it getting stolen as no other truck but ours will hook up to it. Cheaper to as you just buy a ball when ever you weld up a new trailer to add to the fleet.
David
David
jlmtractor
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I use a master craft hitch lock on my gooseneck.
but here is a pic of it cuz it is kinda hard to explain
but here is a pic of it cuz it is kinda hard to explain
Nancy Howell
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Put a mark on the coupler were it joins the neck of the trailer so you can re-insert the coupler to the right spot when you get ready to use the trailer. Unbolt the coupler, remove it and the bolts and store in a secure place.
Get a top link pin that fits through the holes for the coupler bolts on the neck of the trailer. Insert the top link pin with the hole to the inside in the lower bolt hole of the nose of the trailer where the coupler would go. Put a lock through the hole in the end of the top link pin. Very simple, very inexpensive.
You can't get a bolt cutter on the lock because its inside the nose of the trailer where the coupler would go. Thief can't insert another coupler because the pin & lock block it from being inserted.
Thief could use a hack saw to cut the top link pin, but most thieves aren't interested in stealing something that takes work.
Get a top link pin that fits through the holes for the coupler bolts on the neck of the trailer. Insert the top link pin with the hole to the inside in the lower bolt hole of the nose of the trailer where the coupler would go. Put a lock through the hole in the end of the top link pin. Very simple, very inexpensive.
You can't get a bolt cutter on the lock because its inside the nose of the trailer where the coupler would go. Thief can't insert another coupler because the pin & lock block it from being inserted.
Thief could use a hack saw to cut the top link pin, but most thieves aren't interested in stealing something that takes work.
TractormanNC
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What would the DOT have to say about that?
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