Though the hitch is bent at an angle, it swiveles OK on the ball, so I was able to haul it to SC and back.
Here is a view of the driver's side.
Look at the angle of the hitch, to the bed rails. It should be 90 degrees...
This is the truck that hit me.
We returned from S. Carolina Thursday evening. Since I last posted, a lot has happened. When I left on my trip, I was accompanied by thousands of others fleeing hurricane Ike. While exiting the freeway in Carthage Texas, I was rear-ended by a 1 ton dually pick-up truck, hauling an RV, bumper-pull trailer. Traffic ahead of me had stopped, so I stopped too. He wasn't paying close enough attention, and plowed right into the back of my horse trailer, totalling it! No one was hurt, except, maybe his dog, after the fact. He had a small, terrier type dog with him. She was fat, and looked old. She drank some spilled anti-freeze. I told him it was likely to kill her, and he said, "I guess she'll learn not to drink it then."
The back door on the trailer was pushed into the trailer, the frame is bent, so that I can't get the tack room door open, the roof has a half inch crack in it where the weld let go from the impact, and the hitch, which should be at a 90 degree angle with the truck bed, is at about 35 degrees forward of the ball. I was able to continue my trip to S Carolina, but the trailer is toast. We couldn't dis connect the truck from the trailer but we did get the back door open, so we loaded it up and came home. I now need to go trailer shopping, cause I need my trailer for work. I'm adding pictures of the damage, and one of the truck that hit me.
We were very fortunate! Ike was a bad storm, but the farm, where no electric, means no water, or septic, never lost power. The house in town was without power for 3-4 days, but has no structural damage. We lost some fence in the back yard, and several banana trees, but other than the contents of the refrigerator, and freezer, and the shed we stored our feed in, we haven't lost anything to the storm.
