Deen wrote: Too many stories about pins mysteriously disappearing and then the RV operator being robbed when they stop.
Can you clarify this? How does one thing have anything to do with the other?
Your pins are missing so then you get robbed? If someone is going to rob you, (the operator), locking pins will make a difference how?
I think the OP was referring to someone sabotaging your equipment, then following you. When you stop to check it out, he robs you. Sorta like the bump and rob senario I guess.
Really never heard of it but it's probably more likely to happen than the TOAD catching on fire and allowing you enough time to safely get in the burning TOAD, apply the emergency brake, get back out, pull the pins (but not enough additional time to unlock two locks), disconnect the chains, get in the RV and pull away.
Deen wrote: Too many stories about pins mysteriously disappearing and then the RV operator being robbed when they stop.
Can you clarify this? How does one thing have anything to do with the other?
Your pins are missing so then you get robbed? If someone is going to rob you, (the operator), locking pins will make a difference how?
I think the OP was referring to someone sabotaging your equipment, then following you. When you stop to check it out, he robs you. Sorta like the bump and rob senario I guess.
Really never heard of it but it's probably more likely to happen than the TOAD catching on fire and allowing you enough time to safely get in the burning TOAD, apply the emergency brake, get back out, pull the pins (but not enough additional time to unlock two locks), disconnect the chains, get in the RV and pull away.
And you can't get "bumped over the head" any other time? What a bunch of BS that is.
The thief would have to have some big gonads to "bump" you over the head right next to, or behind your MH anyways. If you pull into a remote area that might considered "bad", and get out, then you made the wrong decision to stop there in the first place! PLUS, you SHOULD have checked for sabotaged equipment BEFORE you pulled out. It's called checking your equipment. I do it all the time. I think you watched National Lampoons Vacation too many times.
I still believe locks are a waste of time on the toad end. I have one on the hitch, since the tow bar stays on the MH. But just regular pins on the toad end. I NEVER got bumped over the head in all the years of checking my trailer hookups on any thing I had.
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Deen wrote: Too many stories about pins mysteriously disappearing and then the RV operator being robbed when they stop.
Can you clarify this? How does one thing have anything to do with the other?
Your pins are missing so then you get robbed? If someone is going to rob you, (the operator), locking pins will make a difference how?
I think the OP was referring to someone sabotaging your equipment, then following you. When you stop to check it out, he robs you. Sorta like the bump and rob senario I guess.
Really never heard of it but it's probably more likely to happen than the TOAD catching on fire and allowing you enough time to safely get in the burning TOAD, apply the emergency brake, get back out, pull the pins (but not enough additional time to unlock two locks), disconnect the chains, get in the RV and pull away.
And you can't get "bumped over the head" any other time? What a bunch of BS that is.
The thief would have to have some big gonads to "bump" you over the head right next to, or behind your MH anyways. If you pull into a remote area that might considered "bad", and get out, then you made the wrong decision to stop there in the first place! PLUS, you SHOULD have checked for sabotaged equipment BEFORE you pulled out. It's called checking your equipment. I do it all the time. I think you watched National Lampoons Vacation too many times.
I still believe locks are a waste of time on the toad end. I have one on the hitch, since the tow bar stays on the MH. But just regular pins on the toad end. I NEVER got bumped over the head in all the years of checking my trailer hookups on any thing I had.
Back in my motorhome days, I used black wire ties to secure the pins in place and when I was ready to unhook, just cut the wire ties. It will not prevent theft, but would make it harder for someone to release the pins.
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