Reading the Alko thread has got me thinking.
When we had caravans in the past I religiously would attach a Bulldog antisnake bar on them because my father in law would predict awful things happening if we didn't.
Wind the clock forward after fifteen or twenty years and we noticed most caravans have sprouted a red thing on their tow hitches, upon enquiry we are informed that they are Alko hitches and are a modern form of an antisnake.
Where we store our caravan there is a shop at the front and they also sell second hand kit, including Alko hitches and they ain't cheap even second hand.
We have been down to Devon a couple of times and recently down to Brighton without any form of stabiliser in tremendously strong winds without a twitch from the caravan but it's been on my mind that we really should have something there.
Looking at the new prices they are up to £300, that's a lot of money, a Bulldog is £140 ish.
Then I got thinking, in many years in farming I have pulled many trailers with stamping livestock or heavy machinery with Land Rovers and Range Rovers and not had any form of damper on the trailer and never had any trouble, fast forward to the Brighton run and that was a seriously windy day and again not a twitch.
Are they really necessary?
Hopefully I haven't cursed myself!
When we had caravans in the past I religiously would attach a Bulldog antisnake bar on them because my father in law would predict awful things happening if we didn't.
Wind the clock forward after fifteen or twenty years and we noticed most caravans have sprouted a red thing on their tow hitches, upon enquiry we are informed that they are Alko hitches and are a modern form of an antisnake.
Where we store our caravan there is a shop at the front and they also sell second hand kit, including Alko hitches and they ain't cheap even second hand.
We have been down to Devon a couple of times and recently down to Brighton without any form of stabiliser in tremendously strong winds without a twitch from the caravan but it's been on my mind that we really should have something there.
Looking at the new prices they are up to £300, that's a lot of money, a Bulldog is £140 ish.
Then I got thinking, in many years in farming I have pulled many trailers with stamping livestock or heavy machinery with Land Rovers and Range Rovers and not had any form of damper on the trailer and never had any trouble, fast forward to the Brighton run and that was a seriously windy day and again not a twitch.
Are they really necessary?
Hopefully I haven't cursed myself!
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