Pintle hook

[plongson]

What are your thoughts on a pintle hook. I was looking at a HD trailer for moving a tractor and it had a pintle hook hitch. Is this just for "Around the farm" or can you tow on the highway with one???

 

[sscribner]

I use a pintle hitch for my jeep trailer all the time and all the heavy military trailers use the hitches. The hitch is noisier that the typical ball hitch as the ring can move back and forth in the pintle. You should be fine on the highway, look at the next dump truck that goes by towing a trailer and you will see a pintle hitch.



SS

 

[TKingsbury]

No problems, just clunky

Travis. .

 

[arollan]

We use pintles for towing our skid-steer loaders and misc trailers. This hitch does "eliminate" the chance of the trailer pulling upward off of the ball when there is a huge load applied to the rear of the trailer when loading the equipment on the trailer. In most cases, the tongue on trailers that use pintle hooks are much heavier built than the comperable trailer with a stamped tongue for a 2 5/16" ball. However, there are millions of trailers without pintle hooks...