I don't know about pintle hitches. I thought I should have one I can plug into my receiver hitch incase I need/want to pull a pintle hitch trailer someday. I have come across one which, by the size of the bolt on holes, I think is rated at 10,000 lbs. I found out this rating by looking them up in the McMaster catalog and the only size with 1/2" holes was this rating, all the others were larger with higher ratings. It looks like the size of the ring should be a min of 2" inside dia. Most of the rings I see listed are 2 1/2" or 3". This seems sort of big, would rattle around in use? Can anyone educate me about pintle hitches and what is acceptable for ring sizes. Thanks, Tom
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Butch(OH)
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Pintle hooks and the corresponding Lunette Eyes
are differing in size and grouped by capacity just
like other hitching systems and should be matched
even though miss matched units will sometimes fit
together and latch. Yes there is slop when
properly matched and the accompanying jerks and
bangs under braking and acceleration can be
annoying. The more tongue heavy the trailer is the
less the less you will even know the slop is
there. You WILL hate any trailer that is balanced
on the axles and hitched via Pintle. One way to
ease the banging is to keep the ring and pintle
greased. That may sound backwards but when greased
it can ease back and forth instead of hanging up
until it overcomes the friction. They werent designed for operator comfort however it is a good reliable hitch for H-D towing.
are differing in size and grouped by capacity just
like other hitching systems and should be matched
even though miss matched units will sometimes fit
together and latch. Yes there is slop when
properly matched and the accompanying jerks and
bangs under braking and acceleration can be
annoying. The more tongue heavy the trailer is the
less the less you will even know the slop is
there. You WILL hate any trailer that is balanced
on the axles and hitched via Pintle. One way to
ease the banging is to keep the ring and pintle
greased. That may sound backwards but when greased
it can ease back and forth instead of hanging up
until it overcomes the friction. They werent designed for operator comfort however it is a good reliable hitch for H-D towing.
If you don't have an immediate need and cannot forsee a definite need for a pintle in the near future, save your money. Don't buy until you have a trailer in your line of sight.
They're expensive and it's not worth having the money tied up in something you may or may not ever use.
They're expensive and it's not worth having the money tied up in something you may or may not ever use.
Tony in SD
Well-known Member
Pintles are more forgiving than a balls when hitching them up. Also
most of your neighbors don't have pintles hitches so that will
minimize them borrowing the trailers from you.
most of your neighbors don't have pintles hitches so that will
minimize them borrowing the trailers from you.
As I said I have the part that goes on the tow vehicle. I could change my trailer over to pintle as it has a bolt on ball coupler and I see that Northern has a bolt on ring. As I said I mostly want have pintle hitching available in case I have the need sometime just as I have different size balls even though I don't use them much as my trailer is 2 5/16 and that is what I mostly pull.
I always have tongue weight, and thanks for your input.
Tom
I always have tongue weight, and thanks for your input.
Tom
Butch(OH)
Well-known Member
I have that bolt on hitch system on my dump and tilt bed trailers and love it. In less than a minute you can remove the hitch to detour thieves, also allows me to pull the dump with a tractor without a ball and gives vertical adjustment for the 3 different trucks that pull the trailers. On the trucks I use one of the combination pintle /2" ball hitches plus a seprate 2 5/16 ball.
I have pulled this rig many thousands of miles with a pintle hitch and I have never noticed the slop or jerking talked about. I have been in Texas, Oklahoma, New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, of course Indiana, Michigan and Ohio where I live. I wonder what the difference is if people have those problems. Many of those miles I had a gripey female riding shotgun that would have brought it to my attention if it was not smooth. I did cut a foot off the frame and weld a piece of 1/2 inch angle iron directly to the frame and bolted the pintle receiver to it.
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