After months of searching I finally found the right tow receiver. 2 & 5/16 ball with pintle hook. It's massive and if some idiot hits this it should do a number to their car.

 

Nice, except that it is not locked so anyone with 10 seconds to spare could jack it. Also, your pin is in from the wrong side. If the keeper pin came loose (they do) the pin could slide out leaving your trailer on the chains. You always should put your pin in from the left side. The crown in the road causes the trailer to pull to the right this can pull the pin out.

Joe

 

How much did it cost?

 

Thanks for the tip! I am actually leaving right now to go get a lock for it.

 

$167.00:o

 

Whatcha' plan on towing with that thing -- rail cars?!

 

What??? I don't mean to be ugly but I'm calling BS on this one. Thats the craziest thing I've ever heard. There is NO way the trailer "pulling" to one side is going to make that pin come out. First of all, all of the actual pull or trailer weight is pulling that draw bar back against that pin, whether braking or pulling forward. I've been towing stuff for almost 30 years and have never had one come loose. Hell I pulled a boat 30 miles to the lake once without the locking clip even on....the cheap lock fell off the end of the pin!

 

That's what we use on our trucks at work.

 

There are massvie downfalls to the pintle setup. when towing a trailer and you come to a stop, the trailer will bang into the front of the pintle, causing a loud crashing sound and pushing the truck forward... I love it! I also have a HUGE ball and hitch on the back of my Expy, fo when joey jerkhoff hits my truck in the back he gets pwn3d!

 

I can see some very sore shins in your future...

 

You're going to need some of these.

Hockey goalie leg pads.

 

O gawd YES!. At work we had an F-350 dumper with a pintle on it, countless times I've walked into the pintle, talk about bloody shins. Paint it neon GREEN lolz

 

And you need that becauuuuuse??? This is coming from the guy who bought a Rapid Hitch to tow his 16' boat....

 

"First of all, all of the actual pull or trailer weight is pulling that draw bar back against that pin, whether braking or pulling forward." Without getting too deep into the physics of a trailer hitch, this statement is wrong. Actually the pin is under forces in three directions, up & down, left & right, forward and aft. True, most of the force is in the forward & aft direction when you are traveling straight. Every time you turn the loading changes direction. The crown of the road lends itself to a constant, slow right turn. Thereby imparting a constant yet slight pull on the pin to the right. Any time there is a change in the amount of force the truck exerts onto the trailer there is a brief moment where there is not a forward & aft load on the pin, only the side load. Given enough of these cycles the pin can work loose. I have seen it happen before. I helped a guy just outside of Springfield, Mo. He had a brand new Harley that he just picked up from getting a custom paint job on the back of a trailer. The locking pin came loose and sometime later the pin came out. The trailer hit the chains, flipped over on top of the Harley and was drug behind the truck leaving blue and chrome stripes on the road. When I looked at the odometer on the bike it read 00000.7. I felt so bad for the guy I gave him an extra pin that I had with me.

Joe

 

I just think it looks bad ***. From time to time I move some larger trailers around that have the lunette rings that require a pintle, and with this receiver I can use it for a standard trailer with a 2 & 5/16 coupler and the trailers with the lunette ring without switching receivers.