(1723) Harbor Freight Hitch Pin Lock (JUNK!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2020
- Video #1723 highlights the harbor freight hitch pin lock, which turned out to be a huge piece junk because they cut corners on the locking mechanism. That's a shame, because the body of the lock is really well done. Such a waste...
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One thing about any of these trailer hitch pin locks you should consider before using one is where you live and when do you use your hitch. I live in an area where we have long winters and they use salt or a salt substitute on the roads. If you leave your hitch in place like I and most do, come spring you will be removing one of these lock pins with a grinder, hammer and punch. The snow, ice, and salt will corrode the guts in any lock to the point where they might as well be welded shut in just a few months. An acquaintance of mine works for a trailer outfit and he told me that they remove dozens of these things every year with a grinder.
Adding a little grease to a lock every so often, once or twice a year, can help with this
But it makes it very safe, right?
Looking at the key, it appears all the pins are the same height. This would suggest these are keyed-alike.
I have one, and it's not keyed the same.
Ya, probably close enough
At least probably have batches that are alike
@@lobopiro4732 Yes, and with awful tolerances it just needs to be close. A lot of the disc detainer locks I been doing are like that, the keys are awful but it doesn't really matter because the gates are so big.
Haul Master puts the "Master" in "Haul Master"
I've got one these, I don't really use it for security purposes though, just wanted a hitch pin that locks instead of one with a cotter pin. And yeah I had the exact experience with picking it open. First dimple lock I ever tried and really gave me a false sense of how easy those are to open.
Harbor Freight sells junk!? When did this start?!
1977 apparently
Hahahahaha good one thanks I needed a good laugh....😂🤣😂
Lol funny
Being a Harbor Freight lock (you kinda know what you're getting) I'd say they did a pretty good job overall for the price. At least it wasn't a 4-pin tumbler or wafer lock.
I bought this lock a few months ago specifically to learn dimple locks. It’s one of the few I can find in stores that’s cheap. I think it was $10
I was actually thinking it's a terrible lock, but probably OK for beginner practice.
Can't wait for the next "master lock picked open with ------"
Longtime fan Bill! Always fun watchin' ya pick this stuff.
Honestly these things don't need to have a very good lock on them. They're really just there to make it slightly more difficult to steal your hitch so that the hitch thieves will go find another truck in the parking lot that doesn't have a lock and steal that one instead of yours.
Lol that's funny to see something on here I actually own, but I didnt buy it for high security. Just keeps someone from walking by and easily stealing my tri-ball hitch. Beats a cotter pin
Thanks for getting me back to Picking.
These tow hitch locks are pretty much only used to stop opportunistic thieves. If someone is planning to steal a tow hitch they will usually go for the first unlocked one they come across. These locks are pretty effective as a psychological barrier making the thieves move on pretty quickly.
I got one of these from Walmart same brand almost exactly alike. But how quick you picked it seems to be that they're keyed alike as well.
Aww dang, I agree it's a shame that they cheaped out on... well, I was gonna say "the most important bit" but I guess with locks the old saying about chains and weakest links is very apt.
That's what that pick is for?!
I have it in my collection, had no idea what to use it for, thanks for that info and great video Bill!
@Bosnianbill. "Don't need that. Let's get that out of the way." Love your style.
Yea! A dimple rake! That's satisfying but unfortunate that the lock tolerances allow that rake to work.
Hope you and your family stay safe and well.
I've always had luck with the dimple rakes on the chinesium dimple locks, one of the few times I get to make use of one of those goso picks! Thanks Bill!
The double sided wafer rakes in the goso set work well on a lot of wafer locks I've tried - you don't even need a tension tool, just jiggle and twist. The padlock picks in the goso set are junk tho, by the time you've filed down the thickness to actually fit in a keyway, they're too weak to be useful.
thanks Bill
I'd like to see a demonstration of you picking this lock While It'sAttached to Truck, PLEASE
Happy Monday Bill from oz
Bought the older style with a regular cut key years ago. It you leave it on out in the weather, forget about picking it. Even with the key to u lock it, the ball bearings that retain the lock rust and won't retract. We ended up cutting it off and tossing it. Junk!
"Made in China" I laughed. Some good honest chinesium right there.
As a newbie to lockpicking, a crappy cheap dimple lock was a lot easier to pick than a proper made more classic lock like a Tesa te5 (sxe branded) I found in the garage.
Even worse, I didn't have a nice multipick flag for dimple lock, just a flat flag which was too wide and not curved at all.
Dimple looks complicated to people not knowing anything to lockpicking, bad dimple locks are even worse for the difference between the feeling of security people have and the real security level.
Most people would trust the bad dimple lock more than the good pin tumbler.
The shafts on this type trailer hitch lock is, I’ve found anyway, to be of a very brittle material . A smart tap with a hammer and you’re in.
If the Goso dimple rake can open it, it's probably good practice for beginners.
The 'Master' part of the HaulMaster logo looks suspiciously like the Master Lock logo - same font and size. Hmm. Probably made in the same factory? MasterLock have a reputation for physically tough locks but junk cores.hmm
"Look we have a dimple core!" BosnianBill picks it and rake it under 4 min....
While explaining what he's doing and while reaching around a camera to ensure a good shot.
He starts picking at around 1:55, and has it open 30s later.
Not to in any way talk down how good Bill is, there is absolutely no reason why a (conventional) dimple lock is any more difficult to pick than a normal edge-cut pin tumbler.
Particularly when they may not have many pin differs, as is normal with cheap junk.
@@StyxHackshop any kind of dimple lock has less travel in the pins than a standard pin-tumbler lock, which might have 7 different cut heights over 8mm of travel, where a dimple lock will have 5 cut heights over 3mm of travel, so inherently much easier to jiggle open. Some cheap dimple locks have only 3 cut heights. I really don't know why dimple locks are still being used, it's far too easy to have a full depth bump key.
Looks like a half diamond pick might work with that lock. I have no dimple locks or picks but there is a harbor freight store in town and I do have several half diamonds.
I'm shocked. Shocked! I tell you.
oh noes i have one of these! but hey, if they really want to steal my hitch ball then go for it lol. but why bother with mine when there are many more out there not even locked?
odd that they didnt use a simple bar, drill a hole in the end, and you use your own lock.
Bar isn't thick enough.
I suppose you could use it as is with the lock part of a decent cable lock after someone cut through the cable. Perfect recycling opportunity
All over the world, stuff produced that is such a waste of the earths precious resources, filling up landfills daily. Saddens me.
I haven’t seen one of these that couldn’t be defeated with a piece of pipe. I’ve had 3 get seized on my car and didn’t pick any just sq.40 pipe, either 3/4” or 1”; inset the lock portion and pull. They’ve all snapped without much force. You’d think someone could design a good coupler lock.
Yup don't even bother with those because i have seen someone use a big round tube and bust one off .
That was a fast open
"Raking attack, RAKING ATTACK!
Keep your dimples down!"
Junk.com seems to be one of those domains that is parked or whatever the call it. It could probably be bought for a reasonable cost. It would be fun to buy it and set it to redirect to harbor freight's website.
I can almost guarantee junk.com is being sold for 10s of thousands somewhere
might be secure if you tig welded the keyhole shut
Locks keep honest people away from stealing!
Sure it's junk, but how hard is it to pick when it's attached to a hitch? Rolling around on the ground, under a truck and/or trailer.
All you need is a rake. He's demonstrated this outside and on attached locks.
Still better than no lock
He's not taking credit because he works at harbor freight.
How many times property is stolen after picking a lock? I think most thieves prefer force over skill.
You are right, and because of the simple fact that this is a dimple lock, it is almost guaranteed to not be picked.
So no need to buy a lock, just get a proper sized bolt and nut and tighten it really well so that the theif needs tools to unscrew it and you are secure. ????
@@JohnDoe-bd5sz That might work as most thieves carry tools for breaking locks, not for unscrewing tight bolts. They are not likely to have a socket set, a spanner set and a breaker bar.
@@Murgoh But the same die grinder that will cut a lock or chain will buzz through a bolt and nut.
Wouldn't another lock core fit this?
I don’t think anyone would admit sending them to you. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to say then get locks from there
If someone is willing to go through all that trouble just to steal a trailer hitch, that person needs to do some serious thinking about the purpose of life.
I think the issue is that it's from Harbor Freight.🤔
Can anyone recommend a good hitch lock?
Maybe this:
th-cam.com/video/xVtHiX12TVw/w-d-xo.html
Compared to a lot of the locks tested, a bolt with purple loctite on threads might be better
Maybe this:
ftknoxlocks.com/shop
of maybe this one
krakenlock.com/products/kraken-lock
I took my standard pin drilled it out to accept a shackle where the cotter pin went and have a decent ABUS or an older American lock I rekeyed with all security pins
If nothing else could throw it at a thief.
They put effort into strength and then put a really bad core in the lock... WHYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOOK no one is gonna lay under a truck with a pick set. This is designed to keep the honest thieves...not real ones from stealing. Good video tho
HELP! I ordered product from Sparrow well over 1 month ago. I discovered my order was delivered to somewhere in Illinois. I'm in California. Sparrow has no email address. No customer service. No phone number. I'm at a loss. So, you. Do you know how I can get a hold of them?
Its 'sparrows' as in 'sparrowslockpicks', not 'sparrow'. Anyway, I would contact the postal service to retrieve it. Sparrows does have an email address, ive just checked, it's on the 'company info' link. It used to have a phone number, maybe they've had to temporarily remove it from the website.
Dammit, I just bought one of those.
It's probably gonna be fine, though herdly ideal of course. I doubt many thiefs would even attempt to pick a (dimple) lock.
Will at least keep the neighborhood kids from messing with it. Until they become teenagers.
Honestly, the chances of someone jacking your trailer are really low to begin with, you really only need a high security hitch lock if you run a business where you haul a lot of equipment around regularly or something like that.
Next video: the Sky is blue.
8/10
Why don't they create more locks where you can't reach the pins with anything than a weird looking key or tool?
Changing how the pins look is surely not the right way to go since Bill will pick the lock if he can reach them all.
I would never design open standard locks such as these if I was in to creating locks.
They do, then new tools that can access that new keyway become standard.
There's bowley lock. That thing has never been picked afaik
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I meant something more like the Dual Fork Bowley Padlock, you can probably add something to make it hard to rake open.
I don't know if it has been picked but it seems to be close to impossible without special tools because of the dual fork key.
Does anyone else get some strange noise in the audio while Bill is talking?
That is the lock shaking from fright.
It’s his singers voice
Yes it's a problem going on for years. He has tried lots of different equipment. It sounds like a technical error but it seems it's his voice.
More useful as a baton lol
That lock is so weak. 1 hit with a hammer while in the hitch. It breaks right off and your receiver comes out. Just that simple and easy
As a brit i am not even sure what this does but i have a suspicion... correct me if i am wrong
Y'all in the former colonies don't actually attach the ball hitch to the car (as is normal)... you have some kind of weird tube i n tube thing to allow one to attach the ball hitch to the car/truck... or not attach it, for no particular reason?
We used to have the hitch balls attached to the car frame with extra struts. I think that went away about the time chrome bumpers went away, and probably for the same reason: you can trip over a trailer hitch and get hurt, or run into one and perhaps cause damage to something. Our version of H&S probably disallowed them. Or maybe the yuppies just decided they were ugly.
So now we have frame struts that attach a square tube "receiver" that doesn't stick out quite as far as the plastic bumper, and you can insert any of a number of hitch types (including ball and pintle) into the receiver and pin them in place.
You can also use the receiver to hold a bike rack, or a boot of some sort to hold extra stuff that won't fit in the minuscule boot of a modern car.
Never banged your shin into a hitch ball walking around a car in the dark, have you?
@@JPaganel no because they don't stick out far enough to do that. It would be illegal
Most of Harbor Freight stuff is made cheaply.
Wow, what a piece of junk
Is it reasonable to assume an average thief would go to the trouble of picking a dimple lock at all to steal a hitch? I suspect this is likely ok for the application as a defense against crimes of opportunity
I'd guess only drunks, dopes, and idiots would steal a hitch. Most would probably see the Master #3 locking the trailer to the hitch ball and decide it was easier to just pull the pin holding the hitch into the receiver and take the trailer or boat that way.
Not a great lock bill 😂
Once again looks are deceiving.
Agree with a previous post, that maybe the only way to ever get a high security lock is to have ‘one of a kind’ weird keys/tools; but it would cost more than what you are securing.
Is your channel now gonna spiral down into what we should "stay outta" as well, Bill?
All of those hitch locks are garbage. A socket large enough to slide over lock and an extension for the socket and just break it.
Isn't Harbor Freight SYNONYMOUS with Made In China junk?
Breaking news! Harbor Fright sells cheap junk! Who knew? Alert the media!
I disagree with that being the most important bit. The overwhelming majority of people looking to steal your shit aren’t going to even try to pick your lock. They’re gonna try brute force and bypass. That being said, harbor freight sells shit.
Never trust anything that has a logo resembling of Masterlocks logo.. :)
It came from horrible freight, what do you expect?
You’re using them wrong, you need to have it on your car for a few years, get it full of rust and mud - no way you will get it open, even with the key.
So, question, where did your fake ass Sparrows Vault pick video go? You know, there one that you had 3 different sets of contact points but still managed to “get” to combination and get an ( not possible )open? Why’d you delete that video?