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What’s with the towball being top and bottom?
Different size for larger trailers over 3.5t. 50mm or 75mm typical use in Australia.
2" or 3" ball in NA to my understanding. They rotate around.
NA has 3 common ball sizes for pickup trucks: 1 7/8" for tiny trailers under 2,000 lbs; 2" for most trailers under 6,000 lbs; 2 5/16" for large/commercial trailers under 10,000 lbs
Theb you also have pintle hitches, and with wheel.
For when you’re towing in Australia.
easy way to solve this.
100 feet of chain, and 30 locks.
Be careful. You might search someone precious TrUcK
This picture irritates me so much
If this is the same picture I saw years ago. This is from a farm college. So they kinda need the toe hooks.
Most places it illegal to have them on when not in use. Most people leave them on as a form of crash protection, like in a parking lot.
I’m sure it depends if you are living in a state that’s governed by chuds.
Yeah though I imagine we disagree on who the chud is or why. Selfishness isn’t patriotism or freedom bud.
Sure, but could they teach them how to park then?
Toe hooks huh… Must be some big feet…
But even with or without hitches, their rear ends are intruding beyond their parking spots. I know that’s also a challenge with these long ass trucks, but if it were a lot designed specifically for this demographic, it should have the spots appropriate.
4x4 Off-Road
Has never seen anything but paved roads its entire life.
It’s just marketing, anyway. Stock trucks are garbage offroad.
I’ve heard the phrase “pavement princess” used for such vehicles
I’ve been using “emotional support vehicle” lately.
I call folks who drive them “rural identifying persons”
My buddy uses “gender affirming vehicle” all the time. 😆
I’ve also heard “mall terrain vehicle”
If it’s lifted on skinny tires it’s a bro-dozer. The tires are always bald all-terrain tires.
can’t help but notice that most of those trunks are empty too
They’re empty and almost every tow hitch is rusty. I think if they’re used the rust would get knocked off and they’d be shiny, like the one back there. They literally just buy trucks to make themselves feel manly, I guess because they can’t any other way. Then they never use it for any of the things they argue people need trucks for.
You’re backwards. The rusty ones are the ones getting used because the load and weight cause friction that takes the chrome coating off, exposing the underlying metal to the elements that cause rust.
Normally you grease the ball to keep it from getting bad, but a lot of people don’t keep up with that part.
Because I fucking hated getting grease all over my hands, pants from accidental brushing, and just everywhere else. The rusty ball still works for more than 20 years, so I took the tradeoff.
Yep.
I used to keep mine greased, got tired of getting dirty from it when it didn’t really make any difference.
My shins are already hurting by just looking at it.
Tie them together!
All of them are so proud of their back-in parking skills thinking that space is for them. Meanwhile handicapped and children have to walk in the way of them, ironically dodging the same trucks that are so tall that they can’t be seen
Parking like that is way easier than parking hood-first, lol.
This happens where I live and I keep wondering how crazy I would be to complain about it. The parking spots aren’t long enough for trucks, so they back in and completely cover the sidewalk. I need to use mobility devices to get around and usually have to fight my way through the grass because there isn’t enough room for my walker. I’m not looking forward to this fight when snow is on the ground
Yeah I think it’s time for an urbanism community here on Lemmy. I’ve been on the fence but I’m all for spreading more awareness that things like this are not normal.
Make a habit of removing their tow hitches so you can get past.
Note, do not steal them, just lay them on the ground under the truck so they can retrieve it. Reality is that they almost certainly won’t look at all before leaving and never know where it went.
Tuck it under the windshield wiper like a parking ticket.
Nah that’s extra effort that shouldn’t be required, especially for anyone with mobility issues. Leaving it in is just asking for it to be stolen anyway. Just put it on the ground right under. Not stolen, just moved out of the way, and they’ll inevitably not check and leave it behind. Probably never even notice until they try to use it to tow something again.
I get it, but what’s the difference at that point? May as well just start collecting them. Once you get enough, sell em for scrap.
Or you could just take the pin. On the odd chance one of these clowns might actually tow something, the towbar would come out when they pull away.
The difference is effort. Just dropping it over the ground is the least effort to accomplish getting it out of the way to move by. And not going out of your way to put it someplace else. You aren’t committing a crime in the process by stealing anything. And they’re likely to not check and just leave it there anyway for a punishment later when they notice it missing.
Taking the pin out means it’s no longer secure, it could fall out on the highway, damaging an innocent vehicle following at a later date.
As much as I love this idea, especially the suggestion to place it like a parking ticket, I have less dexterity in my hands than I do in my legs lol
Maybe I need to befriend a few neighborhood urchins xD
Perhaps a foghorn installed on your mobility devices?
And there’s a convenient truck bed right there to deposit it into.
What in the GPT is going on with the hitches in the distance?
I had suspicions when I say the asphalt or whatever it’s called…way too flat and prestige for a parking lot. looks very fake
Y’all and your AI witch hunt are ridiculous. Just admit that you’re easily fooled, can’t tell the difference.
Lol. I encourage you to zoom in and look at the details.
I don’t see any “ai-looking” things in this pic. Each hitch belongs to a truck. There are all sorts of shapes, but walk through the average Walmart parking lot and you’ll see them all.
- The nearest two hitches are pixel-perfect square to the camera.
- The tailpipe on the first truck on the right melts into a smudge.
- There is almost no detail in the concrete even though all the trucks are in sharp focus.
- All shadows have an ethereal quality and the light seems to have an inconsistent directionality.
- The ball on the white truck melts into the white line behind it.
- The green truck behind the white truck has a fender that seems to melt into a wheel.
- The box on the orange truck on the left seems to be about 3’ deep.
The shadows show it - exactly. The same from both directions, and weird looking to boot.
When a truck and another truck love each other very much…
Lifted trucks have to have extensions to lower the balls so they hang the right height for trailers.
Apparently a couple of them fell in love.
And the close ones. What is with the double ended tow ball?
different size balls for different size hitches. All hitches are removable, you can flip those over to fit different implements. Imagine that, removable, almost like there was a legal requirement they be removed while not in use.
There are different hitch ball sizes. I’ve got one lying around that has 3 ends.
The ones in the back need extensions to the ground to match their ridiculous lift kits, otherwise the trailer would tip ass backwards.
Different trailers need different size balls. If you look close those are triple/quadruple ended. Fun for the whole family.
What’s with all the free trailer hitches?
My first thought as well. Doubt any of these have locks. I don’t understand leaving it on. I travel on an RV and remove my hitch and store it as soon as the RV is disconnected.
My first thought. I couldn’t imagine the foot pursuit, but I could imagine opening the amazon trailer hitch shop.
And not a single dangling metallic ballsack on sight
But just the thought of all those ball sacks in close proximity makes this photo so redneck homoerotic.
Imagine trying to get a shopping cart through that. I imagine that’s probably a Bass Pro Shops parking lot.
Some evil part of me would be tempted to take some chain and knit those trailer hitches together all down the line.
Hmm, I’ve decided to down vote any post with the “tik tok screenshot”… Fuck that crap!
New boost =
Fuck TT screens
Is it illegal to own a sedan there?
Basically yes. Their emissions laws are written so that bigger cars can produce more CO2 and other emissions. So small cars are not viable while large cars are barely regulated.
I heard they are ICEs next target /s
They don’t make sedans anymore. They’ve gone the way of the station wagon
My shins broke just looking at that
If I’ve learned anything from decades of D&D, the answer is always “rooftop leaps and then drop from above”. 🤌🏻
