Big John Son
Tremoraholic
This past Wednesday, I was towing a 20' covered trailer back to NJ from the NY Adirondaks. When I went to hook up the trailer, the hitch lock was frozen (was 12° there) so I had to make a run to a hardware store in east bumfuck jabib for map gas to heat it up so it would unlock. Finally got that out, so I backed under the hitch and hooked up my tow chains, plugged my lights in, and dropped it on my GEN-Y and away I went on my 300 mile trip. About 200 miles into my trip - moving at 65 to 70mph on the NY Thruway, a critical brain fart I had hooking up the trailer came roaring in out of nowhere... HOLY FUCK the trailer just jumped off the BALL!!! The emergency brake on the trailer engaged and while I watched plumes of white smoke from the trailer wheels in my side view mirror, and a trailer about to either ram me and start to fishtail, I made about as perfect an emergency stop as I could have hoped for. I was although in a fucking crazy ass precarious spot between the Thruway traffic and a sweeping on ramp. Traffic was wizzing by me on BOTH SIDES at 70 to 80 mph. I got out, and almost instantly realized, this dumb ass (that's me) hooked up to the 2 1/8 ball and it was supposed to be the 2 5/16!!!
I was lucky as hell the chains did their job and absolutley zero damage was done to either my truck or trailer, but now I had to get coupled back up and in a safer place!! I quickly jacked her up and backed under the same 2 1/8 ball to drag the trailer with locked up brakes to the shoulder where I was able to flip my hitch and hook up to the correct ball without the fear of being eaten alive by the front grille of a Semi.
> in before, I know..stupid.
I was lucky as hell the chains did their job and absolutley zero damage was done to either my truck or trailer, but now I had to get coupled back up and in a safer place!! I quickly jacked her up and backed under the same 2 1/8 ball to drag the trailer with locked up brakes to the shoulder where I was able to flip my hitch and hook up to the correct ball without the fear of being eaten alive by the front grille of a Semi.
> in before, I know..stupid.
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