If you have an electric tounge jack, it'd be a simple matter to install
a disconnect switch inside the trailer to disable it. Just make sure
that the switch will handle at least 30 amps. Such switches are
available from your local autoparts dealer, some with keys; I installed
one as a Master Battery Switch in my trailer. Didn't think of it as an
anti-theft device, but it would sure work as such.
Another option is a Hitch Lock. I've seen one that pokes up into the
hitch where the ball goes and has a "collar" that slides around the lip
on the front/bottom of the hitch and locks to the other part. Makes it
impossible to drop the hitch onto a ball.
<<Jim>>
Conrad & Tricia Holsomback wrote:
>
> > Tuna bought a 65 GT in 76, and a few years later it was stolen,
> > absconded in the dark of nite, from a park in Santa Monica.
>
> This has been a concern of ours, at least a subject of discussion
> occasionally. Is there any locking device to prevent someone from driving
> off with our Dreamstream while we're off sight seeing?
>
> The first Airstream we looked at, about 50 miles away, belonged to a
> youngish widow whose friend had purchased an SOB and didn't like her vintage
> A/S. She had a buyer who looked at it several times before we did, checking
> out how it hooked up and how to work the electric hitch, etc., while waiting
> for the bank loan.
>
> One afternoon while working behind the house & garage, she heard noise and
> walked to the front of her house to find these guys trying to hook up to her
> A/S. They saw her and took off without the A/S. After that she disconnected
> the batteries, but we don't want to do that to protect it from thieves.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Tricia & Conrad
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