How to connect a trailer w/drawbar attachment to my truck's receiver hitch?

[plowhog]

I have an off-road farm dump trailer. It uses a standard drawbar setup to connect to the tractor drawbar. I hook the trailer tongue to the tractor drawbar, insert a pin, and go.

I want to be able to reposition the trailer from one spot to another using my truck. So I need some way to attach the trailer to the truck, except it doesn't use a standard ball hitch. I think I need some sort of drawbar adapter that I can slide into the truck's 2" receiver hitch, and will prove a "drawbar" that the trailer will attach to.

I've looked around and can't find anything. Do you know of something that might work?

 

[Diggin It]

Clevis Trailer Pin Mount

 

[LouNY]

I just use a regular ball mount without the ball.

 

[plowhog]

That Clevis Trailer Pin Mount is perfect. I will get one at Harbor Freight. Lou, I did consider using the regular ball mount but I wanted some extra stability. I'm sure at some point I will be dragging a trailer full of wood on a slope, etc. so a little more stability would add peace of mind.

 

[LouNY]

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This load is on a ball mount drawbar with either a 1" or 7/8" draw pin.

Is your trailer a clevis like the other drawbar mentioned, with 2 ears, one that goes above your tractor draw bar and one under it.
One item that can be a problem with two double clevis's is the limited movement in an up and down angle, the 4 holes will bind with any up an down travel.
And the larger the draw pin the faster the bind happens. Only one double clevis to a single draw bar.
Heavy farm trailers to very large tractors the tractor drawbar is a clevis to ring hitch on the wagon or trailer.
Normal tractor drawbars are a single bar, with the wagon or trailer hitches having a double eared clevis.

 

[plowhog]

Yes the trailer has 2 ears on its hitch end.

 

[LouNY]

Yes the trailer has 2 ears on its hitch end.

Then I would avoid the drawbar with two ears, it will bind up with up or down travel.
Enjoy

 

[plowhog]

Hmmm. Good point.

 

[ruffdog]

Then I would avoid the drawbar with two ears, it will bind up with up or down travel.
Enjoy

...or even side to side movement too.

 

[KennyG]

I just use a regular ball mount without the ball.

This is the way to do it. We towed farm wagons this way all the time.