I'm looking (4 hours on web today) for a trailer hitch receiver to clamp onto my forks. Search keeps coming up clamp-on bucket types. I think I don't want to have my 72" bucket blocking my view and certainly don't want that huge thing blocking me trying to guide my log splitter into the garage!
One company in NH has a type that goes over both forks, clamps on and takes a 2" receiver but it's $540! I can buy new forks for that.
Any help appreciated.
I made several of these about 15 years ago rather than blowing a hole through the forks for a ball. Works perfectly on forklift forks as well as forks on track loader and tractor. It's the
only thing I use to move all of my trailers; gooseneck, pintle hitch or regular 2" ball. In my concrete floor barns or on the concrete areas outside my barns, there is nothing like it for moving trailers around with a forklift. Easiest thing in the world.
I also made a couple different hitches for a 3 pt. hitch that I sold on eBay. The next thing I know, I get notice a couple of years later that somebody patented my design and I'm told I can't make any more. I have pictures and drawings of where I made them many years before the bogus patents, but being that a hitch mounted on your 3 pt. hitch is so much more trouble than one on forks, I just said "screw it". If you see a 3 pt. hitch with a 2" Reese style receiver at the bottom and a larger ball on top for a gooseneck trailer, I designed that and built them almost 20 years ago. I made several different versions and it's the 2nd out of 4 versions (the only one I sold on eBay) that got copied and is sold almost everywhere....maybe even on here.
I don't have much use for people who steal other designs and call them their own.
Watch now and see if what I pictured here doesn't start getting made by someone and they try to patent it. I'll save the dirtbags the trouble of trying to patent it; I already did, so don't even think about it! I don't mind helping out other guys, but when someone tries to make a living out of my design and then has someone tell me that I can't build what I designed, I have an issue with that. Anyway, I won't post specs on this little jewel, but I use one probably each and every week of the year.
