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Can you Keep
your Trailer from Going South?
 It's
getting common, someone telling me their white stock trailer was
stolen while parked at a sale barn or their new Living Quarters
horse trailer was stole while at a fair grounds equine event. The
horse and trailer websites are posting the latest missing trailers.
Desperate times increases the population of desperate criminals and
trailers are an easy target. I'm getting calls from companies that
want me to review coupler locks, jack locks, wheel locks and alarms.
No system will totally prevent theft, but the devices that make
stealing your trailer a long drawn out process, should discourage
the bad guys, sending them to look for easier targets.
 My
trailer is different as it is covered in banners and sticks out
going down the road. I've seen pink trailers and horse trailers
covered in daisies to keep the thieves looking elsewhere.
  GusHill Industries has
several trailer locks, the one reviewed here is the DaBull for
Bulldog couplers. DaBull encases the coupler and the lock. Some
couplers have holes for a padlock but all it takes is a smaller ball
or peg to fit the smaller hole and drive off with your trailer.
DaBull covers the coupler in cast aluminum and a puck style lock
from Pacific or ASSA Lock is covered too. Cast is hard to cut or
torch. ASSA locks are 11 pin high security locks.
http://www.trailerlocksonline.com/bumpthis.pdf I took the
lock to a locksmith, and he said it was a good lock with it's
special cut key, it would be like picking two locks. We are waiting
to see if the locksmith can pick the lock, the results will be in
the next update with DaKing, kingpin lock.
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| Bulldog couplers from
Cequent, are a staple with horse trailers, you can find them
on 30 year old trailers. |
The DaBull ball goes on the
coupler..... |
then the cast aluminum
sleeve slides over the coupler.. |
the ear exits the sleeve.... |
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| Then the Pacific or ASSA
hockey puck style lock secures your trailer |
The key goes up from the
bottom, with most of the lock covered |
Cast aluminum ball and
sleeve |
Case-hardened puck lock,
ASSA is 11 pin, Pacific is 6 pin |
For more info:
http://www.trailerlocksonline.com/
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