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03-05-2015, 09:43 AM
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Ouch!
Nuff said! 
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03-05-2015, 09:48 AM
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Been there, felt that!
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03-05-2015, 10:01 AM
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I have heard through others that is not legal in some states and provinces to leave the ball attached while not actively towing. Beats me, but my thinking is, if you hit your shin one time, lesson learned.
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03-05-2015, 10:07 AM
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Also if it is not your truck and you hit your shin on it .... you are too close to someone else's truck.
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03-05-2015, 10:11 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jaxfl
Also if it is not your truck and you hit your shin on it .... you are too close to someone else's truck.
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Not likely.
There to close to you! [emoji15] [emoji12]
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03-05-2015, 10:15 AM
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Has also saved me some pain in a few parking lots from other vehicles. 
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03-05-2015, 10:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTJohn
I have heard through others that is not legal in some states and provinces to leave the ball attached while not actively towing. Beats me, but my thinking is, if you hit your shin one time, lesson learned.
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Was told that when NE PA by the safety personnel at weekly safety meetings. Heard the ticket around $100 to $200. Took mine out. Sure the target were the out of state trucks. They were a couple of hands that said they got one. Think it was a secondary offense. Speeding was the main thing.
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03-05-2015, 10:29 AM
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It's amazing the amount of injuries the body sustains when your eyes don't do their job! VOE here 
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03-05-2015, 10:31 AM
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1969 f250 at a local tire store I was walking back out to it when a car drove in way to close truck rocked a little till the car stopped.
Sliced it open like a pop can....
Cops called, paper work exchanged we both agreed to pay for our own repairs.
Now that's pain.........for him.
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03-05-2015, 10:41 AM
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Works great ripping open the grille on the idiot that pulls in too close to you in a shopping mall parking lot.
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03-07-2015, 10:01 AM
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I guess I never made it far enough out of evolution and need to keep running into mine.....I take mine off the truck and lay it under the trailer coupler or I put an orange traffic cone over it....don't seem to miss that though!!!!
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03-07-2015, 08:10 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mcnabbwr
Has also saved me some pain in a few parking lots from other vehicles. |
Also keeps other drivers from tailgating me.
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03-09-2015, 04:08 PM
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Ouch!
Would love for someone to bury their nose into a WDH head just to see the damage caused! Sorry-I'm an evil person cause I sell body parts!
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03-09-2015, 04:46 PM
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Did that just yesterday. Rarely tow anything with the SUV, but Saturday was free dump day in my part of the county, so we hooked up our little utility trailer loaded with 2 trees and sundry odds and ends that we finally came to the conclusion we weren't really going to fix "someday." Had to make a quick run to Wally World and ran into the hitch 3 times while loading and unloading. Looking out my front window as I type and it seems to be mocking me even now.
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03-09-2015, 04:59 PM
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HONDAMAN174, I was sitting at a light on a hill at the bottom, and a lady slide down the hill (it was icy) and hit my WDH at about 15 miles an hour. The little Honda civic did not make it well. Hitch went into motor after it went through the radiator. She was mad at my truck!
Jester
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03-09-2015, 05:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharon455
Did that just yesterday. Rarely tow anything with the SUV, but Saturday was free dump day in my part of the county, so we hooked up our little utility trailer loaded with 2 trees and sundry odds and ends that we finally came to the conclusion we weren't really going to fix "someday." Had to make a quick run to Wally World and ran into the hitch 3 times while loading and unloading. Looking out my front window as I type and it seems to be mocking me even now.
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Yes, I can hear it.
(bottle clinking, FX in background)
Sharon, come out and playayay, Sharon, come out and playayay, Sharon, come out and playayay!
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03-09-2015, 05:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ford Idaho
Yes, I can hear it.
(bottle clinking, FX in background)
Sharon, come out and playayay, Sharon, come out and playayay, Sharon, come out and playayay!
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Where's the Like Button? 
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03-11-2015, 09:37 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jestercyco
HONDAMAN174, I was sitting at a light on a hill at the bottom, and a lady slide down the hill (it was icy) and hit my WDH at about 15 miles an hour. The little Honda civic did not make it well. Hitch went into motor after it went through the radiator. She was mad at my truck!
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Did you at least apologies to her for your truck not sustaining more damage......lord some people need to stop and think before opening their mouths.....I know...I know.....wishful thinking.
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03-11-2015, 09:44 AM
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lol. So true my friend.
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03-12-2015, 12:22 PM
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these do a number too...
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