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re: Ever had boat/trailer come off while driving?
Posted on 6/23/25 at 9:11 am to Mushroom1968
Posted on 6/23/25 at 9:11 am to Mushroom1968
My dad and I fished in Lafitte on a fall day a few years ago. Heading back home to Metairie we stopped at a red light on Transcontinental. It turns green, I pull forward and feel a thud. Get out and the pin that holds the trailer hitch to the truck slipped out... the spring clip that keeps it in place was nowhere to be found. Luckily it was an easy to get back on and we had a pair of vice grips to hold it in place till we got home.
To this day we think someone was being an arse at the launch and pulled the pin. What is scary is that we took the huey p home.
To this day we think someone was being an arse at the launch and pulled the pin. What is scary is that we took the huey p home.
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Posted on 6/23/25 at 9:39 am to Mushroom1968
On 165 north, south of Monroe, I once saw a nice bass rig pass the towing vehicle. Truck in right lane and boat in left. I guess the wind was strong enough initially for it to achieve some kind of aerodynamic lift? The truck had hit the brakes and the trailer just settled into the median. It was packed with dirt and grass but didnt seem any worse for wear. It was 25 years ago and can still see it. 
Posted on 6/23/25 at 9:47 am to Mushroom1968
Lost a trailer as we topped the I-10 bridge in Lake Charles. Amazingly in stayed in the right lane all the way down and tongue lodged in the dirt in the ditch at the bottom of the bridge
Posted on 6/23/25 at 9:51 am to SpillwayRoyalty
Had something similar. Pulled an enclosed work trailer to Covington from Baton Rouge. Got off the interstate and stopped at the end of the exit ramp to turn left. When we started to go the trailer came off. No pin, no clip, don’t know how far we pulled that trailer without a pin. Lucky.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:48 am to Mushroom1968
Yes, on the way to Toledo Bend. Country highway in a curve, looked to our left and saw the boat/trailer pass us and then get almost cut in half when it hit a pine tree. Good times.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:57 am to Mushroom1968
Funny one: I was helping an elderly man in my neighborhood with his yard. I already had my zero turn on my 5x10 from helping him prior week. This time my chains spring loaded hook carabiners were rusted and I couldnt open them so I said screw it Im only going a few streets over. Well while messing with the carabiner, completely forgot to close and latch the tongue or put in pin. Thankfully I made it to his house with trailer behind me. I parked on the slighlty sloped street, lowered my trailer gate and hopped on my zero turn.
As soon as I backed the weight of the mower past the trailer axle, the fulcrum action set in. The tongue lifted and the trailer, with me on mower starts going down the street, backwards. I made it about 6 ft and I went forward and now weight in front of axle, the trailer slammed down, with jack stands pad on asphalt. Now, trailer, mower and me start sliding towards my 2 year old aluminum bodied F150 and tailgate. I panic, reverse mower again and here we go again tongue up and I go too far and Ive rear of trailer on asphalt. The tongue is like 5 ft in the air and felt like I was going to flip the zero turn backwards. I go forward and slam trailer jack back down and again head towards me truck, entire trailer sliding.
This happens several times back and forth but less violently each time. I eventually competely balance my 5x10 trailer teetering on one axle an the gate just so where I wasnt sliding the trailer forward or backwards down the street. I was stuck because the trailer tailgate and stand foot pad would slide on the slick asphalt if I went too far forward or backward. I think it was like 90-120 seconds of teetering and eventually the trailer turned so that I could slide the trailer into grass without hitting my truck.
It is by far the craziest thing that has happened to me with a trailer and causes me to double check everything with a trailer.
As soon as I backed the weight of the mower past the trailer axle, the fulcrum action set in. The tongue lifted and the trailer, with me on mower starts going down the street, backwards. I made it about 6 ft and I went forward and now weight in front of axle, the trailer slammed down, with jack stands pad on asphalt. Now, trailer, mower and me start sliding towards my 2 year old aluminum bodied F150 and tailgate. I panic, reverse mower again and here we go again tongue up and I go too far and Ive rear of trailer on asphalt. The tongue is like 5 ft in the air and felt like I was going to flip the zero turn backwards. I go forward and slam trailer jack back down and again head towards me truck, entire trailer sliding.
This happens several times back and forth but less violently each time. I eventually competely balance my 5x10 trailer teetering on one axle an the gate just so where I wasnt sliding the trailer forward or backwards down the street. I was stuck because the trailer tailgate and stand foot pad would slide on the slick asphalt if I went too far forward or backward. I think it was like 90-120 seconds of teetering and eventually the trailer turned so that I could slide the trailer into grass without hitting my truck.
It is by far the craziest thing that has happened to me with a trailer and causes me to double check everything with a trailer.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 1:50 pm to Mushroom1968
It's happened to me twice, both at work and both times had someone "helping" me attach the trailer. They lowered trailer onto the ball, hooked up chains and lights and never closed the latch. Both times (about 10 years apart) I was blamed since I was hauling, and I definitely should have verified. Luckily the trailer was empty both times so just a minor bend of the jack leg and chains held on.
Since then no one else is allowed to touch anything. Guide me backwards and step away.
Since then no one else is allowed to touch anything. Guide me backwards and step away.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 2:43 pm to Mushroom1968
1997.
I went fishing that morning and was returning home about 3 pm. I had just left the ramp and was only 2 or 3 miles down the road. I hit a bump and BAM!. I get a hard jerk from behind. I look up in my rearview mirror and I can see the deck of my boat since the tongue was skidding along the pavement. Safety chains held. I used a floor jack to get the trailer up and reattached. No damage except to the trailer winch that hit my bumper when I began to stop and the tongue slid under my truck. Thank God I was only going 40-45 mph.
I tell myself, "No way I forgot to lock the trailer down..."
2 weeks later a couple of kids got busted flipping the clamps up on multiple trailers at the same launch. I reported what happened to me but nothing ever came of it.
Since then I double check and use a trailer locking device instead of a simple pin.
Little frickers. One guy they did that to had a serious accident.
I went fishing that morning and was returning home about 3 pm. I had just left the ramp and was only 2 or 3 miles down the road. I hit a bump and BAM!. I get a hard jerk from behind. I look up in my rearview mirror and I can see the deck of my boat since the tongue was skidding along the pavement. Safety chains held. I used a floor jack to get the trailer up and reattached. No damage except to the trailer winch that hit my bumper when I began to stop and the tongue slid under my truck. Thank God I was only going 40-45 mph.
I tell myself, "No way I forgot to lock the trailer down..."
2 weeks later a couple of kids got busted flipping the clamps up on multiple trailers at the same launch. I reported what happened to me but nothing ever came of it.
Since then I double check and use a trailer locking device instead of a simple pin.
Little frickers. One guy they did that to had a serious accident.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 2:59 pm to SpillwayRoyalty
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My dad and I fished in Lafitte on a fall day a few years ago. Heading back home to Metairie we stopped at a red light on Transcontinental. It turns green, I pull forward and feel a thud. Get out and the pin that holds the trailer hitch to the truck slipped out... the spring clip that keeps it in place was nowhere to be found. Luckily it was an easy to get back on and we had a pair of vice grips to hold it in place till we got home.
To this day we think someone was being an arse at the launch and pulled the pin. What is scary is that we took the huey p home.
I pulled a 8.5X22x8 foot decoy trailer from Kennewick Washington to Lethbridge Alberta and back several times from 2017 - 2020, about 1200 miles round trip. On one of those trips I back the trailer into the shop, get out to disconnect it and the hitch pin was gone. How the hitch did not come out of the receiver is anybody's guess. I don't know when it came out but it never came apart. They say the lord looks out for drunks and idiots....
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