Draw bar lock

Hobo,NC

Well-known Member
Location
Sanford, NC
I could not find my draw bar lock last week end so had to throw sum'n together fast... It worked great and took 30.min to make... My old one was lay'n on a implement I thought it needed to be out of the weather and just don't remember were I put it...

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That looks like something this northern redneck would have done!
Hey, it works don't it? Git 'er done.
 
That's nice but I don't have access to a welder all the time. here's one of mine. A J bolt and what ever scrap steel you have laying around.

kirk
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in my humble opinion:

I would not use this type hitch for my trailer, unless I included the other stabilizers that go from the ends of the cross bar up to the top link. These stabilizer bars will insure the lift cannot come up.

reason: if your trailer ever becomes rear end heavy (load shifts, etc:) and lifts the tongue up, lifting your lift arms up at a high rate of speed, this could jam or damage the internal lift system.

just food for thought.

you have a nice under belly hitch to use for general trailer use.

I normally use this cross hitch bar when I am pulling up old fence post or bushes for mama bear.
 
I like the pipe slip on collar.

All of my locks are ho-made.. can't see paying 20$ for a tractor supply one with soo much scrap in the pile to make em.


I suspect this afternoon at least a few locks are gonna be made ripping off your design. ;)
 
[i:fccfa0b9cf]" and just don't remember were I put it..."[/i:fccfa0b9cf]

Uh-huh.

I've got quite a few "extra" tools around here for that very reason!
 
Here is my solution. I would advise using stay bars
so that the hitch does not raise up on you.
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Hobo: That section of pipe is a great idea!!! Back in my ranching days in the 40's and 50's we did not have a drawbar lock for the N, so when using a trailer with a ball hitch, we simple hooked it up and when to work. Did that for years and never had a problem. Hitches may have been heavier built back then???? Never lost a trailer and never bent a hitch.
 
(quoted from post at 19:02:12 04/16/14)

I was only moving limbs/brush tree tops with a 5X8 trailer less than 300 ft and wanted to be able to raise the lift to make it EZ to slide them off the trailer... I fell some trees on my property into the back yard of my kin folk and to keep peace needed to move them pronto... I got the hint when my aunt told me she had someone that would clean up the mess for $600 :shock: so I went at it and made $100 a hr. I will stop what I am doing for $100 a hr. especially when its my money we spending... :lol:
 

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