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Old 10-04-2018, 04:07 PM
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I hooked up my trailer and went the whole way across town and back and saw this when I went to unhook. What are the odds that pin stayed on and didn't fall off in the first hundred feet?
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Old 10-04-2018, 04:25 PM
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My luck it would have ended up in a tire.
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I had one better. I went out one morning last week, getting ready to head out on a service call. Had a cup of coffee in my hand. Forgot something, so I set my coffee cup down on the step bumper on the back of the van. Got what I was looking for. Then I took off for my service call, 30 miles away. Done the call and returned home. As I was unloading the Van, I seen my coffee cup. 60 miles round trip and the coffee cup was in the same place. Who whadda thought..??

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This has happened to me numerous times with leaving everything from electrical tape to even roll pins on the step bumper. Sometimes staying all day and not moving. I think part of it is driving style and not accelerating like a mad man.
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Same here Mike. Several times I set small items on the bumper of my flatbed service truck when I had it. Like Roland, drove several miles and they stayed right where I'd left them..... and I don't drive like an old man either. I don't run like I'm in a race like I used to, but I get right down the road.
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I never get that lucky, lost a lot of stuff that way.
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I never get that lucky, lost a lot of stuff that way.
Lots of people have LOL! I have found lots of wrenches, screw drivers, and all kinds of tools on the road. I found many more left under hoods of cars from previous mechanics tho. I keep them in a special bucket. Its a 5 gallon home depot bucket and its about half full.
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When I was about 10, put my cigar box full of baseball cards on the bumper of my daddy's truck. There were baseball cards for 100 yards up the highway. He helped me pick them all up.
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Couple weeks ago, I couldn't find my cell phone. Then I had this sick thought of maybe having left it on my step bumper of truck when I left the job site. Got lucky and found the phone among the tools in the truck the next day.
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Ahhh….very good question, but to answer it we need to determine the measurements of the surface it is on and some measurements of the pin. It will require some geometric probability involving area of both the pin and the triangular platform behind the hitch of the trailer. The probability would be the ratio of the 2 dimensional surface area of the pin (since it is cylindrical, rectangular regions will have to be used as an approximation) and the area of the triangular region. Once these areas are put to ratios, then the odds may be figured as "success to failure". In this case, success is area of the pin and failure is area of triangular region minus the area of the pin.


Just a guess by the size relationships in the photo would be the odds of 1:89.


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