Pintle ring type trailer
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SnowRidge
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Hmmm. There is no safety shroud on that PTO shaft, yet you are required to display a license plate? Your authorities have somewhat different rules than ours, it seems.
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ZJ_HR
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This WAS my only PTO shaft without shroud, because I didn't have time to rebuilt it before picking season. Now it is on /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
We need to have registration plate here (only one, usually on rear side), and full signalisation like on cars, if tractor need to be on road, and all tractors are. Police punish very hard if they catch you without registration (about 250$ !!!). /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Need to have done tech inspection every year, and payed liability insurance, similar as for car, just cheaper a little. Our tractors are used a lot for transport and hauling loads, as we don't use PU's here. Of course, trailors and attachments need to have lights, stop and direction lights, too. Just nobody ask for their registration (yet). /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
We need to have registration plate here (only one, usually on rear side), and full signalisation like on cars, if tractor need to be on road, and all tractors are. Police punish very hard if they catch you without registration (about 250$ !!!). /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Need to have done tech inspection every year, and payed liability insurance, similar as for car, just cheaper a little. Our tractors are used a lot for transport and hauling loads, as we don't use PU's here. Of course, trailors and attachments need to have lights, stop and direction lights, too. Just nobody ask for their registration (yet). /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Inspector507
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With something that short, you'll never back it up straight /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
No matter what type of hitch you have.
No matter what type of hitch you have.
RobertN
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My 8' trailer does not back worth a hoot behind my truc. The long bed xcab is a long truck compared to the short trailer. Even though it is ball type, it can be a pain to back up. My 16' trailer on the other hand, backs real smooth behind the long truck.
The short trialer though, was easy to move around with my old Jeep; short wheel base Jeep to short trailer worked well.
Have you towed similar length trailers in a ball configuration?
The short trialer though, was easy to move around with my old Jeep; short wheel base Jeep to short trailer worked well.
Have you towed similar length trailers in a ball configuration?
dos_perros
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Interesting discussion and posts. Yes, I have towed other trailers with ball hitch without problem backing up. However, the trailer was longer than tow vehicle. Current 1/4 ton military jeep trailer with pintle/lunette hitch is pulled by a Scout Traveler. Wheel base of the Scout is longer than trailer but not by much. Maybe this is the problem. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif In any event, will continue pulling my military trailer, unhitching when I have to back up and live with it.
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If your trailer is anything like the little one someone else pictured, it is most certainly the shortness of the axle to the hitchpin (in this case, pintel) that causes great difficulty in backing up. Pintel or ball or straight pin, would make no difference. It's all about wheelbase.
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Darren
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I had that problem with a dolly. If you've ever seen a double trailer rig, the dolly hooks to the first trailer via a pintle/lunette setup and has a fifth wheel for the second trailer. Those have a short tongue so backing them up is a real challenge.
I was using an E350 Ford at the time. I bought a step bumper and had a welder add a bottom plate of 1/4" steel. The center depression where the license plate mounts was cut out and a section of 6" channel formed the indention with the legs of the channel to the backside of the bumper. Plate was also used to fab the mounts which overlapped the frame. Mounted in the center section was a pintle hitch which had a 2 1/16" ball as the center post. After all that was done you really couldn't tell the bumper had been modified unless you looked close enough to see the 1/4" plate at the bottom of the indention. That adds a lot of strength to a step bumper because normally there's nothing on the bottom. That's why they twist when hit or caught on the ends.
It looked weird mounted on the front of the truck but it made parking short tongued trailers a snap.
I was using an E350 Ford at the time. I bought a step bumper and had a welder add a bottom plate of 1/4" steel. The center depression where the license plate mounts was cut out and a section of 6" channel formed the indention with the legs of the channel to the backside of the bumper. Plate was also used to fab the mounts which overlapped the frame. Mounted in the center section was a pintle hitch which had a 2 1/16" ball as the center post. After all that was done you really couldn't tell the bumper had been modified unless you looked close enough to see the 1/4" plate at the bottom of the indention. That adds a lot of strength to a step bumper because normally there's nothing on the bottom. That's why they twist when hit or caught on the ends.
It looked weird mounted on the front of the truck but it made parking short tongued trailers a snap.
I remember from when I lived in Germany that the farmers tended to all live in small towns and drove their tractors to the fields surrounding the towns.
I lived in a small town near Furth and there was a farmers field just outside my small backyard. Shortly after we got there, my wife hung our laundry out to dry and that was the day the "honey wagon" went through the field. Everything we owned smelled like the "honey wagon" and we had to do all the laundry again before we could wear it.
Lesson learned................
I lived in a small town near Furth and there was a farmers field just outside my small backyard. Shortly after we got there, my wife hung our laundry out to dry and that was the day the "honey wagon" went through the field. Everything we owned smelled like the "honey wagon" and we had to do all the laundry again before we could wear it.
Lesson learned................
