towing a trailer

[Lawn Services]

just wanted to know if anyone put grease on the ball
of the trailer hitch i've been running mine dry for sometime
with no problems just wonderd if it was a good idea
and if so what type of grease

 

[CCLC]

We grease certain trailer balls. Just the ones that have screw latches. The flip latches we don't usually bother with. It is something that doen't have to be done but a couple times a summer for us. We just do it to keep the balls from wearing out.

 

[Lazer]

We only grease the ones that have the same truck/trailer combo all summer.

Most of them we're using a different truck/trailer combinations and the grease messy.

 

[mowerman90]

click on the search button for this subject and you should find several responses that were absoultly hilarious.

 

[Eric ELM]

See if you can keep a straight face reading this.
http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?threadid=4233

[Edited by Eric ELM on 11-24-2000 at 03:48 AM]

 

[toddman35]

lol, i remember the 1st time i read that tread, i couldnt stop laughing for 5 mintues! lol it still makes me laugh.

 

[chrisbolte]

like the jumping things

 

We changed all of our trailers to pintle type hitches, I feel that they are much safer and that way every truck will have the right hitch on it and would not have to change every time you change trailers. I think that the pintle types are much more heavier and every time you hook up you don't have to worry about the hitch coming loose or popping up. Just My Two Cents,

 

[John DiMartino]

Pintles are the way to go,I wish I had gotten one when I bought mine last year.

 

[thelawnguy]

Originally posted by SLC1
We changed all of our trailers to pintle type hitches, I feel that they are much safer and that way every truck will have the right hitch on it and would not have to change every time you change trailers. I think that the pintle types are much more heavier and every time you hook up you don't have to worry about the hitch coming loose or popping up. Just My Two Cents,

Do you have a red Ford pulling a Big Tex by chance???