Mr. Tow It All

MChalkley · Dec 11, 2001

Kinda gets your attention, doesn't it? Does anyone know of a good source for this product at a decent price? It's a 4-way trailer hitch for a 2" receiver that has the 3 common ball sizes, plus a pintle hitch on it. Here's one site I found: here. I'm looking for something that will fit in the hitch adapter for my EF-5. This looks like just the ticket, but the best price I've seen so far is almost $250. Ouch!!! It also goes by the model number AM5900B, and is made by Action Manufacturing, under the trade name Roto-Eze.

MarkC

JimmyO · Dec 11, 2001

Northern Hydraulics has it, but for the same $250 that you already found it for. Boatersworld.com has the model with just the 3 balls and they are 20% less than Northern for that model so you may want to give them a call and see if they can get the one with the pintle also. What we used when I was using one truck to haul multiple trailers is use a pintle hitch that incorporates a ball as the bottom half of the pintle. Then replaced the standard ball with a converta ball. You should be able to do this set up for about 50% less. And from reading your past posts I know you will have a toolbox mounted somewhere that you could store the extra two balls in.

Jimmy

john_bud · Dec 11, 2001

Mark,
I saw the exact thing at "Blain's Farm & Fleet" about a month ago. I didn't get one, but it was priced about $150.00.

John Bud

MChalkley · Dec 11, 2001

Jimmy - I'll check Boater's World. I tried to do what you did with the Convert-a-Ball on the pintle hitch, but my pintle hitch must've had a narrower throat - the Convert-a-Ball was just enough taller than the normal ball to keep the pintle from latching closed. I'm using a Convert-a-Ball on my Dodge already, so that would be an excellent solution.

MarkC

MChalkley · Dec 11, 2001

John Bud - You don't have a phone number for Blain's do you? Apparently, they don't have a web site, or if they do, I couldn't find it.

MarkC

JimmyO · Dec 11, 2001

I wish I could remember what brand of pintle hook we were using.

What about taking a regular 5-ton pintle($30) bolt it to a pintle receiver adapter($30), then weld the convertaball ($35)shank to the bottom side of the pintle. All the prices are from Northern so you might be able to do better as I didn't look around for best pricing. Might be concerned about heating the pintle but I don't think that it would affect it much. Surely wouldn't hurt to ask the manufacturer though.

Also you might want to call and ask Northern if the pintle the carry would work. We got the pintle at Redneck Trailer Supplies about 9 years ago so I would not even guess as whether the ones they sell now are the same ones that they used to carry.

Jimmy

Edited by JimmyO on 12/11/01 10:05 PM (server time).

MChalkley · Dec 12, 2001

Jimmy - If I can't find the "Tow It All" at a reasonable price, I guess the least I can do is carry a Convert-A-Ball around with me to the tractor supply stores and check out all the pintle hooks... Thanks for the help!

MarkC

Anonymous Poster · Dec 12, 2001

Hi Mark,
Buyers Products manufacturers some of these components, I had purchased @ Central Tractor, now Quality Farm & Fleet…

You can purchase the components and “roll your own” as Buyers Tri-Ball Hitch {~$40.} and adjustable receiver {~$52.}… to make up this assembly:

…

Tractor Supply Buyer Hitch Components {p.264-265}
Adjustable Receiver Source for ~$52