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What’s with the towball being top and bottom?
For when you’re towing in Australia.
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.
Imagine having to rely on a wheelchair here.
Alright, which Deregulated Red Run Oblast is this?
People who drive trucks who don’t work in a profession that incentivizes them can all go to hell.
Even people that work in the profession don’t get the ones as huge as these peope drive.
How are none of these in their spaces?
Idiot lane
Because it’s literally impossible for these assholes to fit their unnecessary behemoths into a real parking spot. The same people who own these complain about parking spots being small, parking garage ceilings being too low, and gas being too expensive. They act like it’s society’s fault. Fucking chuds
I was at a family party where this guy with the largest pickup I’d ever seen constantly complained about how expensive gas was and how it was Biden’s fault. It quickly became apparent that he only drove the thing the hour drive back and forth from his office job. Truck looked like new despite being a couple years old, save for highway tire wear.
Why on earth does he think we should all subsidize his absurd and impractical vehicle’s fuel? And I’m sure he complains about entitled people on welfare.
It’s not, these guys just suck and they don’t have the first clue how to actually operate their vehicles. I can fit my full sized truck into spaces just fine when I have occasion to drive it. They all think they’re hot shit for having back-in parking “skills,” too, while utterly failing to comprehend that all they’ve accomplished here is making it impossible to load anything into the bed. You know, like what trucks are for.
(Postscript: So obviously, they’re not planning on putting anything in the back. Which means they could have just as well all showed up on Vespas.)
Yeah i was going to point this out. Its not just the hitches. All of these assholes have backed in, and deliberately gone in further than the boundary of the bay to minimise how far their nose overhangs the other end.
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…
And the close ones. What is with the double ended tow ball?
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.
Those vertical offset ones are great, because trucks are different and trailers are different.
I have what people call a “toy truck”, the receiver is ridiculously low, and one trailer we have is ridiculously high, so offset ball mount is a requirement.
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.
Different trailers need different size balls. If you look close those are triple/quadruple ended. Fun for the whole family.
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.
Had to take the hitch off my little convertible. That motherfucker is a TRAP! You will never see it that low, never suspect it’s there, then your shin is bleeding out.
I cast “invisible tether”.
This is not an actual DnD spell, but I’m wishing into existence because fuck all of these people.
Hmm, I’ve decided to down vote any post with the “tik tok screenshot”… Fuck that crap!
New boost =
Fuck TT screens
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.
4x4 Off-Road Has never seen anything but paved roads its entire life.
It’s just marketing, anyway. Stock trucks are garbage offroad.
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.
Nah, they’re just Harbor Freight cheapo balls. All stainless balls are like $60, plated ones are like $20. It doesn’t take much for the plating to wear off from a trailer, and then there’s no stopping the rust.
I’m no expert, but I’m not saying it’s stop the rust, just rub it off. Rust is a thin layer on the outside, and it comes off really easily. I assume actually hooking up a trailer and using it on occasion would wear the rust off (for a little while). I could be totally wrong though.
I can confirm that scraping the balls causes rust way faster than it might scrape off. If you see glossy balls, they are likely never used.
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.
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.
Imagine trying to steer a shopping cart to your car here
Imagine how nice it is to scratch every single car there with your cart
I wouldn’t dare
This is not legal advice. I am not a lawyer.
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.
I had enough spacial awareness not to block a walkway when I towed but the reason to leave it on is because it can protect your car.
Twice I had someone fail to break, and slam into the back of my car.
Twice my car was fine, and twice the dickhead on the phone ended up with a tow hitch sized hole in the front of their car.
My first hitch came with and got stolen within a 3 days of having it.
My first thought. I couldn’t imagine the foot pursuit, but I could imagine opening the amazon trailer hitch shop.
My shins broke just looking at that
easy way to solve this.
100 feet of chain, and 30 locks.
Be careful. You might search someone precious TrUcK
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