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04-27-2018, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eastern North Carolina
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Originally Posted by Archicamper
I've put the wd bars under the A frame for 5 years without incident. I guess I must just be lucky.
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Never had a problem either, I lay the bars across the a-frame behind the battery and set the hitch on the ground behind the axles. Along with a whole bunch of stuff that is a heck of a lot lighter to carry off and much easier to sell. Never had anything stolen from a campground. ever.
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04-27-2018, 06:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Ontario
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This was just on the news today. Someone is not storing theirs properly.
I made a wooden box that fits the bars. It can stay in the back of the truck box or in the storage compartment and not get grease on anything. And I have a wood baracade across the back of the truck box do it does not come flying through the box on a front end collision. I did not put them inside an SUV when we had one.
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04-27-2018, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Stevensville
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heres a good reason not to leave your hitch on your truck. This was in our paper today.
We put ours in the storage compartment it’s safe and out of the way, ever walked into one on the back of a truck in the dark??
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04-27-2018, 07:54 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: East Central Illinios
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I just balance them on the tongue. 
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04-27-2018, 08:58 PM
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
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I leave ours locked in the trailer receiver and put the bars in the passthrough. Haven't had a problem at any campground, though.
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I guess I am more trusting than most. I just store the hitch under the tongue on the trailer and leave the bars on the mounts. No way am I going to leave the hitch weight on the truck and definitely not sticking out of the receiver, waiting for my shins. Been camping in lots of campgrounds for 5 years and have not lost anything yet.
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Never had a problem...got away with it for five years...
Never say never...maybe the next campout you won't be so lucky!
Weird happenings in campgrounds are getting worse every day!
While in a state campground around 13 years ago we went out for a drive and came back to the campground to discover our camp stove and four chairs missing.
Thought we were safe...guess not!
At least I had my WD stuff locked up in the cubbies...that was about $1000 worth of stuff!
And I did come back with a good photo...
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04-27-2018, 09:32 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: West Michigan
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With my old system we just did like a lot of the others here and lay them across the A-frame and hitch underneath it. With the new 4 point I will hang the bars like Velosprout's picture above and probably put the hitch in the front compartment to keep it out of the weather.
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04-27-2018, 10:13 PM
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ARLO
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Location: N Chili, NY
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Really?
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04-27-2018, 10:43 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Monticello, IL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnD10
Never had a problem...got away with it for five years...
Never say never...maybe the next campout you won't be so lucky!
Weird happenings in campgrounds are getting worse every day!
While in a state campground around 13 years ago we went out for a drive and came back to the campground to discover our camp stove and four chairs missing.
Thought we were safe...guess not!
At least I had my WD stuff locked up in the cubbies...that was about $1000 worth of stuff!
And I did come back with a good photo...
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You seem to have a problem with the “say it once and let it go” rule on these forums. Please just let it go and stop trying to tell people they’re doing something wrong.
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04-28-2018, 04:59 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Keller, TX
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Originally Posted by Capt. Mike
When we had a travel trailer, we pulled with an Equal-i-zer hitch. Often, the hitch stayed with the truck, but when I took it out, it went on the ground, under the frame, chained around the front jack leg. The bars were just slid back and balanced on the L-Brackets...they stayed there just fine.
I do kind of like where the hitch is sitting in the second post.
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Kiss, keep it simple stupid. I really don't mean the stupid part but it is the saying.
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04-29-2018, 08:13 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fella10
for a couple of years, at home the bars took up space on the garage floor, in a cg they took up space in the camper shell, ... was never pleased with either, ... came up with this idea, mounted a bracket underneath on each side onto the frame and they hang there both at home and in cg, ... also mounted a receiver hitch on the bumper to hold the WDH, lock it there both at home and cg, ... one of my moms favorite sayings "a place for everything and everything in it's place", ...
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So are the bolts for the angle drilled thru the web frame, hard to see from the picture.
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04-29-2018, 08:47 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: eastern NC
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Originally Posted by howellma
So are the bolts for the angle drilled thru the web frame, hard to see from the picture.
tx
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no, the frame is not drilled, just clamped onto by the angle iron, ... on the back side of the bracket is a single bolt with large washer, to also clamp on that side of the frame, ... makes it easy to slide the bracket to wherever is best for your use and then clamp it to the frame, ...
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04-29-2018, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fella10
no, the frame is not drilled, just clamped onto by the angle iron, ... on the back side of the bracket is a single bolt with large washer, to also clamp on that side of the frame, ... makes it easy to slide the bracket to wherever is best for your use and then clamp it to the frame, ...
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TX, that's my project today, got the receiver ordered and working this now.
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04-29-2018, 09:34 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: ALASKA (World's Biggest Campground)
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Keep it simple as can be. When on the road, the shank stays locked to the receiver with ball covered. Torsion bars get stored in the pass-thru with greased ends inside fiberglass reinforced plastic bags from Tractor Supply. In the off season everything gets stored in the pass-thru. 
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04-29-2018, 04:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Where the wheels get parked
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now how do I protect the tent ends of my hybrid. sure hope they start making those tent ends out of steel mesh and Kevlar. 
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04-29-2018, 05:04 PM
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As lousy it would be, loss of your propane tanks or batteries won't strand you in a campground like the loss of hitch components. Keep them secure.
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04-30-2018, 06:10 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 360
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Quote:
Originally Posted by howellma
TX, that's my project today, got the receiver ordered and working this now.
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Got the receiver installed 
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04-30-2018, 08:19 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: eastern NC
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Originally Posted by howellma
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now there's a place for it, where it can be locked up if you want, ... not on the ground in the dirt under the trailer, or taking up space in the truck bed or even left in the truck receiver just waiting to jump out and kick you or someone else in the shins(I think all hitches love to do that), ...
since we have the same hitch, you might be interested in another idea that has proven to be better than I expected, ... I don't want to hijack this thread, so no pic just link, ... see post #14 for finished product,
http://www.forestriverforums.com/for...-143504-2.html
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04-30-2018, 08:35 AM
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Marshmallow Expert
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Medford, OR
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I second that!
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Originally Posted by tuckerdog1
Hitch stays on the truck. Bars get baggies put over lubed end, and stored in TT storage bin. Parallel parking....you jest.
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Exactly what I do.
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05-03-2018, 10:35 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Northern Illinois
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I just hang the bars and friction bar on two ladder hooks suspended from the battery box supports on A Frame. Almost out of site. I leave the hitch in the receiver for weekend trips, long trips beneath the front of trailer. If it’s stolen guess I just continue camping until I can replace it!
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07-15-2018, 05:50 PM
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#60
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Join Date: Jul 2015
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Bars in trailer bumper leave hitch attached
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