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I also cross the chains underneath the tongue as instructed by my superiors at work. Anybody else do this ?
Washington State law requires the safety chains to be crossed under the tongue. Might be a federal law, One that makes sense for a change. 😀
Crossing the chains saved me untold grief and destruction in the 70s. I was pulling a horse trailer complete with two horses down a curvy country road when the tongue came off the ball. We really don’t know what happened, but it seemed the piece that held the tongue together didn’t catch and a bump knocked it up and off. It was an unusual set up different that boat trailers. I just happened to look back and saw the trailer kind of floating up and down like a teeter totter, and parts of me puckered very tightly. I eased the speed down very gradually and stopped with no issues. The tongue was resting in the "cradle" made by crossing the chains. I wasn’t my trailer and I didn’t think anything like that could happen because others had used it with no problems. After some WD40, some thumping, and busted knuckles had it fixed so it couldn’t happen again and went on down the road.