Thank you for enlightening me.

I like to get the dolly-pads clear of the ground, hold the trailer-brakes, and scoot the trailer tires a little, before I raise the dollies all the way up.

This "high-hooking" business sounds scary.

 

They have their place. The extra expense and lenth of a GN are hardly justified for many applications.
A GN is totally unusable for me, since I use my bed for hauling a lot of things that can't go into the trailer. I guess I could make two trips, or have someone drive a "tender".

Then I'd be broke, or at least insane.

Big Jimmy

 

I have my tools in a bumper pull trailer, because I frequently have stuff in my bed, or trim leaned over my headache rack. I could not have a gooseneck for my tool trailer. I need my bed, and the trailer.

Both have their place. The problem in not the trailers, but in attentive owners.

 

Sunday is my free day to move equipment to new job sites

So I loaded and moved my equipment trailer then when back to move my tree chipper.......got to the new site and started to crank the chipper off the ball when it just popped off without unlocking it.......looked at the hitch from the underside and could see the lock was worn out

Decided to check all my other ball hitches for wear.....and found about 1/2 of them worn more then I like......so today I'll be replacing the worn hitches with rebuild kits........I can't afford to have a tow behind unhitching and causing a accident or equipment hitting the ditch and wreaking it

Guy's check your hitches for wear .......a hitch rebuild kit is cheap compared to a accident......I'm embarrassed that I didn't catch this sooner since I'm a stickler for safety

 

Good catch Pappy. I had one do the same thing. Only we were rolling/pushing a Dodge Ram onto the trailer. The only thing I did not check was the coupler and its latch. My bad. It was a borrowed trailer and with all the urgency to get this truck moved...I missed that. I checked the brakes, tires, lights but not the latch. Got the truck part way up and BANG, off came the coupler and up went the trailer. Two of us would have been seriously injured if we had not had the safety chains hooked up. The chains stopped the trailer just in time.
I figured the damage was caused by having the load too far back over the axles but its just as you said...they wear out.

We should post our encounters like this in order to give a heads up to all.

Scotty