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  1. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    Sorry for putting you on the spot with the pins Gimp :oops: Even with what happened, I will continue to flat tow. I will pickup with my lowboy trailer more often than flat tow though, once I get the ramps fixed. But I'm not scared of it, and have done it safely many many many many times. I...
  2. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    Thanks DH, and thanks for changing the title of the thread to better reflect the content. Oh, when I say wire tie, I mean actual metal wire, like lock wire, that I tie. The lynch pins were not from TSC, they were from Fastenal. I've seen several trucks still in service in a convoy on the...
  3. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    Ok, you guys are correct, I *don't* know that the pin broke for sure. I guess we can change the title to towbar pin fell out, or towbar incident, pucker factor 8. (not 10, I've had a 10, 10 is way worse.) I do know that my lynch pin was new, and that I wire tie them in, so that's why I...
  4. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    Bump for the night crowd
  5. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    I have very little slack in my set up and the truck didn't move all that far to the driverside. I see what you guys are saying with two chains though. So I will pull the master link and get two 40k hooks and instead of going across over the front of the frame behind the bumper, I will loop each...
  6. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    Ok, here is the crudely drawn chain set up. You come off the towing truck, and go under and inside the towbar. Then over it ot the outside. Then under the towed trucks bumper, then across the top in front, down the otherside of the frame, back out from under the bumper, over the towbar down the...
  7. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    I have two 40klbs chains that CGarbee was selling for a long time. They have a hook on one end, and are connected together at the other by a master link. Gimpyrobb has new towbar pins- I PMed him and asked to buy 6, to replace all the ones in my towbar and have another spare new one. I wish...
  8. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    Yes, it was mounted with the flat part against the flat part on the adapter. The shackle hole was ever so slightly egged. When I first mounted it, there was no play in the towbar. I always wiggle everything after the pins are in. I don't know if it broke, and then on it's way out it egged it...
  9. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    No, it was a real deal towbar pin. I know it was properly pinned and secured, I replaced the lynch pin with new ones not that long ago.
  10. Ferroequinologist

    Towbar Incident Report

    I was delivering a deuce to Clintogf (Dawn) and one to TJP (new guy from AZ, I was dropping it off at his father in laws on the north side of ATL) yesterday. Angie drove my pickup behind me so I would have a way home after I dropped off both trucks. Anyway, she pulled ahead of me and headed...
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