Serenity

David wanted to go camping this weekend, but duty called and he found himself replacing a radiator in one truck and changing truck tires on several others. When the guys drive all week, the only chance he has to work on them is the weekend usually (unless its something drastically wrong with it, and then we send it to the shop, regardless of what day it is). The last time we camped, he did some “wheeling and dealing”, and bought an older truck to pull our camper with. Up until then, he would borrow one of the numerous truck his boss owns. This truck has a different way of hooking up the 5th wheel of our camper than the boss’s truck had. I’m not sure if it uses ball lock pins, but it does have something that covers the ball and then pins lock in place. What his boss had was more like a semi, where he backed the truck into the 5th part of the camper until the ball locked into a 5th wheel plate. What he has now is something that is like a cup and he has to line the cup and the ball up, and then the cup is lowered down over the ball, and locked in place with some kind of pin system. I don’t quite understand it all — all I care is that it all stays in place and doesn’t come unhooked when its going down the road.

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