A school buddy of mine hacksawed the police parking enforcement boot (similar device) off his car.  It only took a few minutes while we watched and laughed. 

An unused lock is worthless, so if this allows you to unfailingly use it, it's worth the $180.

Otherwise a grade 7 chain and strong padlock will provide the same protection.  (A few minutes of theft delay)

On your gooseneck.... Lower that trailer before you remove the crank.... Then at least they can't get the truck under it without raising it first. It will take too long to get it jacked back up.... Might get caught in the act!! 

With the trailer still jacked up, you can use a long phillips screwdriver through the jack handle mount bolt hole or a pipe wrench to lower the trailer tongue down on your trailers spare tire that's been thrown over the trucks hitch ball in the truck bed (rim goes over the ball with the outside of the rim facing down). This trailer spare is used over the ball because you got the latching mechanism all locked up with those fancy locks so it won't sit down on the ball. The trailer will slip around a little...But, I don't have time to get everything just right. I've got to GO, you may drive up at anytime. The truck rim will fit over the ball and the trailer hitch will sit down in the rim. You can't latch it but unless you jump a big ditch or something it will sit right there.... In about 1/4th the time it took for me to write this I could have stolen your trailer and been long gone.... And I'm in a wheelchair!! Just make sure your seperate trailer insurance (that insurace you got to cover your trailer when it's not hooked to the truck) is going to pay you for your trailer and all the LQ stuff you've added. Be sure your tack you got stored in there is insured also.

Yor best bet is to somehow, lock a wheel...... Or remove three wheels and the spare and let the trailer down low on blocks!!. I keep at least one of my trailers hooked to the truck all the time, all they'll need is the truck key and they'll have the "total package"!!

Good luck locking your trailer up. I don't think there's a good way.... Most of those locks are for honest folks.

P.S.  If your trailer takes missing and there's wheelchair tracks all around..... It wasn't me, I didn't do it!!

Retento hit it right on the head. Locks are for honest people, so the best locking solution is three locks. Coupler lock in combination with the coupler bolt locks, a jack lock, and a wheel lock. Too many things there for them to take time.

If you saw someone hooking up a trailer, you would probably never look twice at them. If you saw them hacksawing a wheel lock and a jack lock, it would catch your attention.

The most important thing that Retento touched on...keep your insurance up to date on the trailer!

Depending on what kind of wheels you have on your trailer, you can always run a chain/padlock through the wheel/wheels to the frame, or to each tire.  If I'm going to leave my trailer unattended for any length of time, I chain the tandem wheels together on one side so that both tires on the that side won't turn and have to slide if someone tries to steal the trailer when I'm not around.  If you have fancy wheels, a really strong cable with swedged eyelets and padlock will work just as well, maybe better?

deranger

That is it. It is actually the only one that I know of. It will make Retento's screwdriver useless. My opinion as far as the coupler locks ago...it's main purpose is to make them realize it is locked. A sledge and a wedge will break them in a heartbeat. But with the tire and wheel it doesn't have to be broken.

Someone makes a lock that you use on the crank handle, landing gear, gear box... Don't yet remember where I seen that one. It clamps around the shaft near the gear box, preventing the shaft from turning.

DUH!! Ya'll done found it... Trailer Bullet

P.S.  If your trailer takes missing and there's wheelchair tracks all around..... It wasn't me, I didn't do it!!

I am still working on this image (Lots of Ice and snow out there 4x4??)

(Our 7 lb Yorkie is a 6 inch high terror and my wife's Appy is just about the nastiest creature you will come across)

But seriously.  Is theft a big thing?  Or is it generalized to specific areas?  Should I be worried in my yard or on the road?  I am really not worried in my yard.    I never disconnect when on the road or in the woods.  Well have not yet anyhow.

I would be devastated.  I do carry a coupler lock but have never used it.  I have a 3/8 chain and a hand full of master padlocks for my generator and access doors.

You got me thinkin.

Keep on thinkin!!! Sheriff's dept. is laying off deputies. Police are laying off folks.... More and more bad guys... Money getting harder to come by. Big ole hunk of tin trailer would bring some good cash down at the junk/scrap yard.  If it ain't locked down or nailed down, it may be gone in 60 seconds, chopped up, sent to China, to only be returned as steel belts in their crappy tires.

When was the last time you tried to cut through a cable with a pair of bolt cutters?  I think I would rather sort mountain lions from wild cats in a phone booth than cut a cable with a bolt cutter! 

deranger

I am glad we are having this discussion.. as I have a two horse BP that I have parked in my driveway that I have concerns about.  I have a lock on the hitch, but as stated, for honest folks or petty theives that don't want to dink with that, but the real big boys probably would have no problems with it.

I still may get a wheel lock and put the cable in the tires, would that be more of a deterrent?  Plus get a driveway alarm so that it would wake me up, as do the dogs.. they are a big help there.

Jbsny

A wheel lock or cable through the wheels is another layer of delay.  A thief balances delay with getting caught.  So another layer WOULD be a deterrent.

I consider the driveway alarm (I have one) ... a layer of personal protection.  If you're not home to hear it, it doesn't deter anybody.  But if you're home, it alerts YOU to a visitor.  Welcome or not.

If a thief stole the trailer with the wheels tied together, he would probably get caught!  Is he going to try to turn around and park it back where it was?  NO!  Is he going to keep driving and hope nobody notices, like a law enforcement officer on patrol and wondering why the wheels are not turning on that trailer? Probably.  Is he going to take the time to try to cut the cable while he's sitting on the side of the road with the flashers on drawing a lot attention to himself? Maybe. 

deranger

Should be easy enough to locate... Just follow the black dotted line!! LOL!

How much of a problem is large lq thief?  Most of the places we go are private camps with pretty good neighbors.  What would they do with it if they stole it?