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Safety Chains

This is a picture showing how my father attached the new safety chains to my '69 Scotty. It's pretty slick and is how I am doing the safety chains on the '62 Shasta as well. It is a big bolt that goes all the way through the coupler. The chain links are between two large washers and there's a metal spacer between the washers and the coupler. There is no slack - the chain links are firm and don't move loosely.

If you didn't already know this, when you attach your chains to the tow vehicle, cross them.  That is, attach the left chain to the car's right attachment and the right chain to the car's left. That way the chains form a cradle and should anything happen where the hitch comes off the car, the chains conceivably would hold the tongue up. In theory anyway...

This is 7/16" x 5" bolt

And, another variation.  My hardware guy didn't have the spacer so suggested using a larger nut - one that the bolt just slips through, instead. Looks, and works, great!