Thought I would go ahead and elaborate on this one...
Near disaster.....
Summer of '03 - late leaving for the camground. I hooked up the 28' TT and drove very aggressively such as pulling away from intersections fast and driving/towing 80mph on the freeway, total drive was about an hour. Stopped at the camground station to dump the tanks, then as I pulled up in front of the camp site and the trailer tongue dropped to the ground....forgot the hitch pin.
This is so embarrasing I hate to even re-tell it thus displaying my stupidity. I can only assume that it must have been the hand of God holding things together on the drive. To state that this could have been a serious disaster is an understatement! Yes, the pin stays in the receiver full time ever since.
So, there I was in front of the campsite with the trailer tongue on the ground, 6:30ish on a Friday night in the middle of summer, yep the CG was busy! I jack up the TT with the tongue jack, but of course did not chock the wheels. Although I got reconnected (Hensley hitch, square receiver bar into a squar receiver mounted on the TT) and pushed the TT back enough to bend the tongue jack! It was too bad to retract back intot he jack post, and of course traffic wa really stacking up behind me now.... So I pull forward dragging the tongue jack on the asphalt. I finally found a spot where I could pull over (QC/LB truck with a 28' TT in a tight campground) and let traffic past. I cut the tongue jack off....
Now I am at the campsite which of course is on a slant, so I had to jack up the TT tongue quite a bit to level out the TT. I used a screw jack from my buddy's van and numerous wood blocks for this. I ran home the next day and picked up my floor jack to get re-hoooked up and home.
Potential cost of an accident: unimaginable
Cost of Power Tongue Jack: $230ish
Embarrassment factor: Priceless....