[AT] Trailer hitch ball mount

[Dick Day]

The steel adjustable mounts make sense if  you have a variety of trailers to 
pull and they have different heights. The adjustable aluminum (Rapid Hitch) 
mounts look pretty but I would not trust them with much weight.

Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Trailer hitch ball mount


I saw something interesting on a hitch a couple months back. The ball mount
could be moved up or down about 5 or 6 positions so that the trailer would
run level. I guess if you had enough variety of towable stuff it could be
useful. By towable stuff I mean trailers of all sizes, cement mixers, log
splitters, farm equipment and pig cookers (that's a Southern term for a big
grill made out of a 275 gal fuel oil tank).

As for bent hitches, once at our clubs tractor pull we had a fellow hitch up
his day old F-250 4wd to the sled. He bent the hitch pretty bad by the time
they stopped him.

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:50 PM
Subject: [AT] Trailer hitch ball mount


>I always look at hitches and trailers etc. always on the lookout for
> an idea to steal.  :-)
>
> Any-who today we stopped at Mickey-D's for a Mcsalmonella or something
> and I spotted a heavy pickup truck (3/4 or 1 ton) with a large
> receiver on the back and sticking out of the receiver was a ball mount
> that looked about 2 sizes too small. It also looked bent from carrying
> too much tongue weight for it and it had bent right at the back edge
> of the large receiver. It also occurred to me that all that was
> supporting side movement was the lock pin. Now with an adapter sleeve
> it would be better but the way it was now any severe side thrust would
> have the possibility of shearing the lock pin due to the fairly large
> side gap and the ability of the ball mount to try to pivot in the
> receiver.
> Pulling an empty little trailer would be OK but since the under-size
> ball mount was bent it must have hauled a heavy load or two.
> Scared me and I'm not afraid of anything.  ;-)
> -
> On a side note I intend to slowly convert most of my tractor hitches
> to rigid receivers. I think they will be quite handy and will
> eliminate a lot of slop in some of them especially rather than using
> three point hitch drawbars.
> Son Scott sold his Oliver 1755 sold and I am selling my Deere 4020
> soon so they won't be on any higher HP tractors nor for extended field
> work.
>
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer"

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