There's a Flip side to that situation. Years ago Dad had both his tractors, My Super H and His M parked in a 2 stall garage right next to the road with the doors facing away from the road, and towards the house. Dad wakes up about 2 AM, hears something running, idling outside. It's a car backed up in front of that garage, backed up to the locked gas barrel. Without turning any lights on or making any noise, squeeking doors, etc. He sneeks down into the attached garage, finds his 12 gauge on the gun rack, finds his last 12 ga shell, opens the entry door next to the garage. He was hearing someone stir around in the tool boxes on the tractors, he sees reflexions of a flash light looking around in the garage with the tractors in it. He loads his shotgun, aims it out across the road and fires, the gunshot echos across the barnyard, takes 5-10 seconds for things to quiet down, He hears one guy loudly whisper "Lets get the He-- Outta here!" He hears some rustling around, tools hanging on the inside of the garage doors jingling around because the door moved when someone ran into it. Then Dad hears the unmystakable sound of a FARMALL M swinging drawbar moving about an inch when it hits the pin preventing it from moving any farther as it's hit solidly by someone's shin. The other guy managed to get in the car, the guy in the garage had to crawl out of the garage, and into the passenger side of the car, the driver floored the gas pedal and pulled the car into gear leaving two trenches in the crushed rock up to the edge of the blacktop where the black marks started. The black marks were 70-80 ft long, an at about 50 feet there was a streak of oil between to two black marks. Dad grew up neighbors to the County Sheriff when they were kids. Dad called him later that morning just in case someone filed a report that some crazy old farmer shot at them while they were changing a tire or something. He never had anyone snoping around in his buildings again.
So trailer hitches, even long extended exhaust pipes, or drawbars are good things. I had a long side exhaust pipe on my F250 diesel, exited ahead of right rear tire. I put about 250,000 miles on the truck with that exhaust. I gave it to SON, HE ripped the entire exhaust off from the turbo on back, put a larger downpipe on, full 4" stainless exh all the way back to the rear bumper which he had to remove my rear mudflaps, my DMI chrome 10" drop bumper, my spare tire would not have fit even if I could have found the hanger. So he spent almost $1000 because he bumped his shin on that exh pipe. I walked past the truck in my tight quarters of my shop for almost 20 years and never touched it!
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