I made a trailer hitch from an old bale spear I bought at auction for $5 a while ago. I was really happy with my project and proud of building it myself. There's only one problem. I never use it.
Generally speaking, the only reason I want to move one of my trailers is to mow where it's sitting which means I have my mower attached. I'm certainly not going to remove the mower, hook this up, move the trailer, take off the hitch and re-attach the mower then take it off and install the hitch yet again to put the trailers back.
Now, I'm not proud of this and am not recommending it to anyone... however...
For moving my trailers just to mow then putting them back, I just pull up to the tongue, hook the trailer's safety chains together and toss them over a tooth on my toothbar, tilt my loader up and raise my bucket. With that I can lift my trailer tongue and move it out of my way so I can mow. I've even now gotten to the point where I don't have to get off the tractor to release the trailer after I set it down. I just use the bucket to drop the chains.
As I said, "This is not a recommendation." "Do not attempt this at home." "Closed course." "Professional driver." "Your mileage may vary." "For demonstration purposes only." "Your results may vary." "Past performance not a guarantee of future results." /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif