I haven’t used the trailer hitch on my somewhat new to me truck. I bought the things needed to tow our new trailer for DMS blacksmithing should it need to be towed and nobody else is available. Then I found out there was a class V to class III adapter stuck in the hitch. What do you do when you can’t get something unstuck with a sledge hammer, air impact chisel, and hydraulic ram? Move from the fine adjustment instruments to the coarse adjustment instruments, find a tree and a chain! Or as Allen would say, the Dodge is the coarse adjustment instrument and the sledge hammer is the fine adjustment instrument.
It turned out to be some kind of clay or something wedged into everywhere that was holding it in place. I suspected rust but it was just dirt and clay. @Brandon_Green and I test loaded the blacksmithing equipment into the trailer after the hitch was sorted out. It all fits and is within the capacity of the trailer which is awesome! I think it’ll take some custom rigging and storage to work well (and some kick ass vinyl!). That’s the next step and there will be lots of opportunities to volunteer to get it all done, I hope y’all will pitch in.
Maybe someone see’s this and thinks it’s dumb but I’m learning things I never would’ve otherwise. This happens everyday I’m at DMS and has been the case for years now. Today it was fine versus coarse adjustment instruments, tomorrow who knows? Maybe blacksmithing one of these days, my grandfather that I never met (he died decades before I was born) was a blacksmith.