Tow bars and the safety cables are usually quite safe.... But the coiled airplane style safety cables hook into the eyelets that are on the hitch and tow plate of the car and do assume that these items will not come off of their respective vehicles...
The hitch on the motor home is welded onto the frame of that vehicle.... These welds could crack, but having all of them crack enough to entirely drop the hitch seems beyond rare.... Now on the base plate end connected to the car, a set of cables is supplied on each side to further make sure that the base plate doesn't completely disconnect the towed car...
If all of the connecting bolts came completely loose, the base plate would come away from the frame, but the safety cables over the frame would limit the plate from falling off, more than a few inches.. In other words you still wouldn't have a complete disconnect...
The actual tow bar arms are reinforced with cables between the coach and the car's base plate... Having all of this fail all at once allowing the toad to go free seems almost impossible... Of course you can never say never...
Rich and I have been rather lazy here, since his arrival... He has an hour's time zone change which messes up his internal clock.. So he is early to bed and earlier to rise than I am.... And we have enjoyed a leisurely breakfast... Yesterday we were out to 5 guys for burgers and peanuts at lunch..
Then a trip to Ikea yielded us a new foot stool for a Po ang chair, that I already had... We went in the out doors to access the stock area bypassing all that long walk thru the warehouse areas... We had an awful time assembling this stool once we arrived home...
Seems the hole drilled for one of the little fasteners was tilted and sticking the 4 inch long bolt into the wooden holes was so misaligned that the threads wouldn't start... It took quite a bit of drill bit carving to get things to match up... If it wasn't so far back over to Ikea, I would have taken the piece back...
This morning I went on the motor cycle over to Valle del Oro RV park and attended their Thursday Country Store Swap meet... The place was swamped... Not a parking spot anywhere... Hundreds of cars... I finally angled the motor cycle in between two parked cars...
I found my Bamboo socks lady right off, and purchased some new pairs... Then just wandering, I found a fellow member of the Goldwing Club selling magnifier paper weights.. On the corner of his table was one of his air wings that go onto the motorcycles... I kind of wondered if he thought some of the RVers would know what they were...
I had to look at this fellow a moment to make sure he was the right guy, but it didn't take long to confirm we knew each other.. So rather than just purchase socks, I now have a set of these wings on order...
Let me explain a bit.... The Honda Goldwing is water cooled and has two radiators on each side of the cowling in front of your knees... In the summer, overwhelmingly excessive heat pours out of these vents.. These new plastic deflectors channel the heat away from you as the rider...
I was really hot last summer when getting slowed down in nasty traffic... These come highly recommended... They are much thicker in their plastic material and have very sturdy mounts... I have my fingers crossed...
Retired Rod
I JUST HAVE TO BE PATIENT WITH MYSELF
12 hours ago
30 miles from home when the car beside us honked and gestured wildly we discovered, on our Class C motorhome at least, the motorhome held up the frame rather than the frame holding up the motorhome! The U-Haul trailer we were hauling to move my mother was pulling the back end of the frame down. A bit later and 2 would have had a real mess.
ReplyDeleteI took Mom out to Tortilla Flats for lunch yesterday. She enjoyed the drive seeing the Tonto desert scenes and the meal was good as well. It's a great place fairly close to take visitors. I think we will head to Boyce Thompson State Park next, another of my favorite places in this area. It is on the way to Globe.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're keeping real busy with your usual interesting chores, Rod. 5 Guys is going to be on our menu pretty soon I think!
ReplyDeleteI need a picture of those wing thingies that will keep you cooler. I can't picture what they are or do. We're back in Yuma and finally got the internet working. Went to Verizon and they reset the jetpack and put in a new SIM card. Yippee.
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