My cousin did the same thing with my car hauler trailer. My advice, other than not letting people use your trailers, is to be there when they get hooked up. They hooked it up and took off using what I considered to be a homemade ball that had the bolt going in rather than a stud with a nut. And then they wrapped the safety chains around the ball. They had to haul a utility tractor with a post hole digger. Went 20 miles to get it. Drove 20 back here, 20 more taking it home, and on the way back unloaded the ball came off, safety chains around ball. Trailer came up next to him and went through the median on the freeway crossing two lanes of traffic without hitting anybody and crashed through the fence of a horse pasture. Mangled the trailer up a bit. I was mortified that it had happened. People could have been wiped out. I am pretty much over letting my trailers go out on a whim now. Scared the heck out of all of us.
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