Semi-automatic quick hitch alarm system offers low-cost solution to a burning issue.

Every once in a while, a product comes along that you just think is RIGHT; an iPod moment, if you will. Well here’s the latest.

It doesn’t look like much but the semi-automatic quick hitch alarm is clearly the result of a considerable amount of homework by inventor Tony Bianchi. The result is a product that simply does what a thousand health and safety inspectors and a million toolbox talks have summarily failed to achieve – Ensuring that the retaining pin is in place on a semi-automatic hitch.

The video is pretty self-explanatory – An electronic system sounds an exceptionally irritating alarm if the retaining pin is not inserted. It’s worth noting that the tried and tested method of replacing the pin with a lump of rebar will not fool the system.

As we have discussed previously here at www.demolitionnews.com, European manufacturers have agreed to cease production of semi-automatic couplers. But this agreement is NOT retrospective, leaving a good many demolition contractors operating semi-automatic hitches whose safety can be compromised by a lazy or forgetful operator. In these instances, the Quick Switch appears to provide the answer.