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I could set it on the loading dock with the forklift but then I couldn't get the forklift back inside as the trailer would be blocking all doors.Milacron,
Obviously nothing will keep a determined thief from stealing your trailer. This is the only avenue you have to secure it. Remove the axles, tongue, deck, ramps, lights and wires. Bury the frame under 40feet of concrete 80'x80'. Make sure to put an alarm system on it before you start mixing the sacks of quickcrete.
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I could set it on the loading dock with the forklift but then I couldn't get the forklift back inside as the trailer would be blocking all doors.
That's pretty much what I have been doing sucessfully for years. Place it against the dock wall such that no way a truck can back under the neck to actually get it out. (plus remove the landing gear crank handle) But figure someone determined enough could probably drag it from the wall with a chain...hard to say...with 8 wheels of friction on a 6,000 lb trailer, maybe not....perhaps I should try it sometime.With a forklift on your home grounds you could always position the gooseneck post up against a wall or something so it would be difficult to get to it with a truck.
Here "caravans" typically use "5th wheel" arrangements similar to semi trucks. They are unlikely to have anything for gooseneck trailers.Go to your local caravan dealer and look at the locks for different hitches. My present one I have a removable post in the ground with a ball fitted to it, park the caravan, insert post, swing caravan round, drop onto ball and lock with proprietry hitchlock. I can tow with this type still fitted and when I pitch the caravan I have a plastic ball (supplied) to stop you putting a temporary whatnot into the hitch, not worth the effort to try to get past that unless you have time and privacy My present hitch is a Winterhoff, my previous two were Alko, Iprefer the Winterhoff
Yes but a Reese hitch tag along like an Airstream might use is different from a gooseneck, which needs a different locking system in general.Airstream and at least one other US manufacturer supply caravans with a hitch (non US use perhaps). I looked on Google and there are a fair tidy few available, some which just go into hitch and lock, not using a padlock. May well be worth a look.
Ive got one like the Blaylock TL-50 on mine. Never had a problem other than I lost the keys for the lock and had to cut it off. They also make one for the downtube to prevent it being removed. It's been on the trailer so long I;ve got no clue where the keys are for it. I'll have to cut the lock on that one too when I go move the trailer this summer.
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