Pretty simple question, I always leave mine in, but you also see a lot of truck running around with the decorative hitch covers, which I see as pointless. What do yall do with yours?

FWIW I pull a trailer 5-6 time a week.

 

Wish I could, but I can't. The garage door won't close with the drawbar on.

MikeyB

 

That must be annoying! I don't have a garage. I guess there is one good thing about not having one... My antennas wouldn't fit anyway.

 

I use it as a step to get in the bed and flip my B&W.

Course with Hunting season upon us I will have the 4 wheelers hanging on it now

 

I never take it out.

That big hunk of steel has been nailed 3 times by retard drivers. All 3 times it has taken out the rad of the car that plowed into me and not a scratch to my truck, well, they wiped the grease off the ball but that's it.

Used for protection as much as it is for towing.

Jeff

 

I have the b&w tow and stow and I also use mine as a step to get into the back of the truck. I have it locked in because in one year I spent around $150.00 in 3 hitches that were stolen. Thay only take the good recivers not the cheap ones.

 

current truck doesnt have one, but my K5 did. i would take it out because i didnt want ppl stealing it and i was too poor to buy a $15 lock. ahhh, high school

 

No, I take mine out. I bump my leg on it too often if I leave it in!

 

I leave it in. Otherwise it just takes up room in the toolbox.

 

leave mine in all the time...used to have a brake light down there but still got rear ended twice. Now i leave my solid steel hitch in all the time with a hitch lock.....and three cars have tapped me. I dont get a scratch and their radiator or hood has a new gash in it. I do keep a tennis ball or ball cover on the ball though to help keep it from rusting.

 

D'oh! I've dropped many a F-Bomb on the old hitch to the shin dance.

Geez that hurts!

I leave mine in mostly. I have one of those vending machine lock looking hitch pins,(made by Fulton) it was like $14.00 at TSC, works great.

 

I only use the hitch for towing the travel trailer. Most every thing else I use a goose neck.

 

I take mine out after i'm done towing. I hate hearing that thing banging around in the hitch when I hit a bump and Indian roads are bumpy. And I also have banged my shins on it many times in the past. But I don't put a hitch cover in.

 

My answer is yes and no.

I take the hitch out and insert it in from the back side, so it is under the truck, out of the way, but there when I need it.

I am working on a set of "holsters" to carry my assortment of hitches, conveniently accessible to the receiver, at the rear of the truck.

2" ball no drop, 2" ball drop, 2-5/16" ball, pintle, and clevis for farm equipment.

I never know, from one time to the next, which draw-bar I will need; and sometimes, I will use all of them in a day.

 

I always take mine out. Working a dealership I see traded trucks that you will never get it. They will rust fast and become part of the hitch