Good morning! I have a sort of me-too statement. A few years ago, I was pulling a small cargo trailer with a garden tractor on it. My hitch ball was on a steel tubular shank that is slid into the receiver, and a steel pin is put through horizontally, then a hairpin clip keeps the large pin in place. Very common arrangement. My problem occurred when the hairpin clip apparently came out, and the main steel pin came out. The shank slid out of the receiver, and the trailer tongue was held only by the safety chains (crossed!). The chains did not break, but allowed the tongue with hitch/ball assembly to drag on the blacktop pavement while I was stopping. I had been going about 40 MPH, got off to side of road OK. So the crossed safety chains saved the day for me. I still have the ball on the insert shank. The nut that holds the ball shows where it slid along the blacktop, a good reminder! BTW, if that trailer had come entirely loose, it might have rolled into on-coming traffic, or who-knows-what. All for a lost or forgotten hairpin clip! As we all know, we should check even the simplest items before driving off. That's my story..
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