Everybody got lucky on that one. Glad no one was hurt.
I know folks that use bolts to lock the latch on the hitch. It can be a pain in the neck and folks tend to skip it. I use a hairpin clevis or whatever it's called, a straight pin with the spring wire that's anchored to one end and the loop that springs up and back in to latch over the other. No muss, no fuss, no excuse not to use it.
The other thing I do when hitchin' up is to only let the trailer down enough on the jack to latch the hitch into place. Once I THINK I have the hitch latched down properly, I crank the jack back UP until I can clearly see that I'm liftin' the back of the truck, and then let it back down.
You said you were in your way in for a new ball. He wasn't pullin' it on a 2-inch was he?
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