Box Trailer Lock

This morning I nipped out into my garden intending to spend half an hour sorting out my box trailer so that a friend of mine could borrow it over the weekend. Some chance my half hour, three and a half hours later the trailer was as you see it in the picture having removed two sacks full of leaves and rubbish, given it a quick clean, inflated the tires and found the spare, but I still have a problem. The trailer is kept with a padlock on its tow hitch (easily seen in the left side of the picture), so that no one can easily take it away; I have not yet found the key to this lock, which has not been unlocked for some while. At present it looks as though I will have to find some bolt croppers, when he turns up to collect the trailer.