We are a family run business that sells trailer locks Made in America! The production of our trailer locks was born out of necessity when our trailer with several thousand dollars work of equipment was stolen crippling our business. There was not a satisfactory option on the market, so we began designing and selling them and we now provide trailer security in all 50 states AND Canada.
You attacked the lock, the weakest part of this housing is the exposed hinge on the other side. With my metal experience, I can defeat this housing in under 3 minuets with a cutting wheel on a cordless grinder, enough said........
Blows my min that some "engineer" or "designer" brought this new style like to the team, went through what I assume would be a few meetings, and this company decided and started mass producing that lock.....and the whole time between concept and production.. NOBODY ever noticed that EASILY noticeable detail of how EASILY the lock can be defeated. And Im willing to bet this product is still being sold by that company without any shame at all lol. lmao. That company has never even heard the term "quality-control" much less know the concept and point of it.
The Lockpicking Lawyer could get into both of them in about 30 seconds. If they are Master Locks, I would say he could get into them in about 10 seconds. The device might be awesome but if your lock is garbage (Master Lock maybe) you are only going to keep the honest people out.
The onLy problem I see with this is you just use a battery powered angle grinder with a cut off wheel and you cut the head off both bolts and slap a new hitch on and both locks are useless. However this is probably more work then most thief’s will take on. It’s still the weakness of this c-channel lock system. If you built a box for the bolt heads it would cut down on the ability to cut this off nearly as easy.
I lost the key to my identical lock. I can attest that the lock in this video as shown is in fact this easy to bypass. I had just a tiny bit more trouble getting my crowbar behind the lock because I had it really tight, but as soon as I got it in it was mere seconds and the lock was off. It took longer to find the video and watch it that to get the prybar and get the lock off. 🙂
I just purchased the Bulldog lock and had no idea there was a RAM lock until watching this video. I was wondering why the lock was so loose. Mine happens to be the RAM.
Bought my Goosebox 6-weeks ago and this is not what Reese is shipping!! Buyer Beware! First - The Reese pinbox came without installation hardware or directions. The hardware took over a month for Reese to replace and again came without directions. Second - The Reese pinbox DOES NOT have the air valve as pictured on the websites. When I called I was told it was due to a parts shortage and the person I spoke to at Reese (Paul?) even told me that the new set-up was something the engineers threw together and was a horrible design. I TOTALLY AGEE! Send me the part! To inflate one person has to literally crawl under the pinbox, while hitched to the 5th wheel, to inflate while another watches the indicator bar. Not easy for a 60+ year old fat man! The valve faces OPPOSITE the side where the indicator bar is located! Plus, the valve is so close to the wall of the box you cannot install an extension hose. Just Dumb. After follow ups with eTrailer, I were basically informed by Hannah that I have to live with it. Either that, or I could pay to ship it back. Mean while, both Reese & eTrailer are selling parts that are not as shown on the website. There is now a Gen 3 with a redesigned air valve, but they are shipping out leftover Gen 2's with missing parts. NO - NOT HAPPY
Very nice heavy duty locks no lock is impenetrable. Thieves will drag a bumper pull trailer by the safety chains and take it somewhere and cut it off with torch. Can't do that with gooseneck tough just make sure to lock jam nut too.
This method of locking is useless anyway. A thief will just put the locked ball and all, over their hitch and ball and wrap a chain around it to hold it in place and drive off to a secure location. Then they can work at removing/breaking the lock etc somewhere quiet and secure. They can also cut off the tongue end later or the receiver head and install a new one. The smartest way to prevent a trailer from being stolen is to use a wheel jaw lock or boot style wheel lock. Nobody should bother with a ball lock like this.
I bought the c-channel lock. If it is installed like this video you can not pull the trailer with the lock on. The bumps and vibrations cause the lock to unlock itself and you will lose everything, but the portion bolted on. I also upgrade my puck lock to the sidewinder. So nearly $200 after tax and shipping down the drain. Maybe it can be installed upside-down to prevent this, but at this point I'd recommend the standard trailer locks, not the puck.
i think the best thing to do with the chains is to cut the first link in each chain (where it is mounted to frame of the trailer) and replace that link with a removable chain link so you can take the chains off altogether when you aren't using it. Chad Odom
I see several areas I could prolly cut through with a battery powered grinder ..30 secs or less.. Pry bar and sledgehammer are dinosaur old school tools buddy..
I think the casing is fine, but I'll bet I can drill that lock in less than 60 seconds and manually actuate the mechanism. The lock casing itself is not hardened steel which itself is a design flaw.
