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Mark.Sibole

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Does anyone here have this on your machine?
Im wondering it it is stout enough to pull any major weight or support any major weight.It looks like it just bolts onto the small tabs on the frame.
I have no plans on purchasing it at this price but I do have skills and a few welders(wink)
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On my 05, as most do, I have a receiver already built in and just use that with the correct size ball for the implement I am working with. Biggest thing I did was get a converter from the 1" or so to the standard 2" receiver that I use on my trucks........God bless.....Dennis
 
I have more 2 inch pigs than 1.25 pigs lol.Would be nice to be able to set them up for each task.Im so tired of changing Balls and hooks and stuff all the time when you can just pull 1 pin and swap them out/
 
I am sure glad they put 2 inch on the new ones. Even with that,,,some of the the hitches have to be shortened to get them in. Make sure your conversion can take any hitch!

Since there is a shortage of storage space in 1100's,,,i use one of those "convert a ball" things. That way i just have the one hitch in, and carry the other balls instead of more bulky hitches.
 
razerface said:
I am sure glad they put 2 inch on the new ones. Even with that,,,some of the the hitches have to be shortened to get them in. Make sure your conversion can take any hitch!

Since there is a shortage of storage space in 1100's,,,i use one of those "convert a ball" things. That way i just have the one hitch in, and carry the other balls instead of more bulky hitches.
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That is true- I am glad the new models are 2". I think it was a Reese brand hitch I bought at WM and it was a bit too long for the pin holes to line up with the 'bota's. I got the chop saw after the Reese and fixed that in a jiff..bordercollie
 
Yes they are all pinned at different lengths.I keep 1 1.25 for the front end to move the boat in and out of the boat house and for the rear I have a 1 7/8 ball for smaller trailers a 2 inch ball for the bigger trailers and 2 pigs set up with heavy duty hooks for pulling logs out of the woods and pulling over trees in the direction I want them to fall.Then I have a spreader bar set up for hooking multiple sleds up on for pulling the kids in the snow. I still want to make 1 more for adding a winch on it so i can pull myself out of a snow bank if I go in to deep when plowing.Ive been fortunate so far this season as to not bury it in the bank.The grim reapers are hard to get stuck with.Got to love them tires.
 
We have straight shaft ball mount on the front, with a shackle attached
to hook the winch into. Hook stays there during non-use.

Then, have other mounts, one with 1 7/8" ball, and another with the 2" ball. Two incher stays on the RTV, the other, stays inside the box on
front of tandem trailer. Most are now 2", but some older things still are
1 7/8" around here .....
 

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Y'all make it too fancy. I have 1 drawbar with a 1 7/8" ball. I put all trailers on it, regardless of the trailer's coupler size. Never had a 2" coupler fall off a 1 7/8" ball and my trailer with the 2 5/16" coupler has so much tongue weight, it'll never flip off.

Straps, chains or whatever just get wrapped around the ball.
 
I've done the same thing, had one thing with 1 7/8 hitch so I just left that on all the time. Moved my 5000lb camper with it numerous times, it had a 2 5/16 hitch.
 
LOL,,glad you guys are getting away with it!

I have a 200 ford f250 (bought it brand new). On the 3rd day i owned it,,,a 2 5/16 tongue trailer came off the 1 7/8 ball,,,,and put a deep crease right up that beautiful new tailgate!

The next week,, a chain snapped and put the imprint of a chain right beside it. I still have that tailgate,,cause you would not believe what ford tailgates costs!
 
The only thing i have the 1 7/8 ball on is my portable hunting blind.The rest is mainly 2 inch .I had a trailer pass me up a few years back with a 2 inch set up on it hooked to a 1 and 7/8s ball.Ill never do that again.Im just glad the trailer was empty when it came off.
 
razerface said:
LOL,,glad you guys are getting away with it!

I have a 200 ford f250 (bought it brand new). On the 3rd day i owned it,,,a 2 5/16 tongue trailer came off the 1 7/8 ball,,,,and put a deep crease right up that beautiful new tailgate!

The next week,, a chain snapped and put the imprint of a chain right beside it. I still have that tailgate,,cause you would not believe what ford tailgates costs!
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.......... you got to believe in the FORCE ..... Think DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPLY what you are doing, before you do it !!!!!
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Going down the road, I would not chance it. Back in the good old days,we were pulling a tandem trailer loaded with antiques with our F250 and it came loose up in se MO. I won't forget that. It was a seldom traveled road but this nice farmer came by with a 4x4 and a long chain. He pulled it out of the ditch for us.I was grateful to him but also grateful that we didn't kill someone- like if it had come loose in Memphis...( somebody had fiddled with the hitch mechanism at the auction and it wasn't "locked down" anymore). The ball was the right size and we had driven from La up there and were on our way back. So another lesson learned, always check your stuff... bordercollie
 
Used to use a piece of old boot leather over a 1 7/8 ball to pull a 2" trailer, worked good. I also pulled a travel trailer with the 2 5/16 on a 2" ball about 120 miles, with 2 layers of old leather boot top over the ball. Wouldn't do that now, but in an emergency for short distance, then yea, probably so.
 
........ just to show folks how things happen.

A 'ole buddy showed up at the house one day showing us his brand new
Honda Rubicon Four Wheeler he just purchased for hunting, and was on the way back from the dealership. I asked him, " don't you think you need to strap this
machine down". His answer was no, you couldn't throw it out of this truck.
I asked him again. He said " you worry to much".
GUESS WHAT >>>

He NEVER made it home......

Where the blacktop ends and the gravel begins going to his farm. It's a small so called "drop-off bump". Right there, the Rubicon jumped out of his truck at approx 65 mph. The machine went flying threw a thicket of trees by a bayou, each tree about six inches in diameter. IT shredded that brand new four-wheeler like it wasn't nothing.

Ever seen a grown man cry ?
..............
................... I DID !!!!!
 

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I'll throw out 2 reminders on the couplers.

1. Make sure the locking latch that locks the handle down moves freely. Last year, more then once, my son was pulling a trailer around the property and the trailer fell off. I kept saying you're either not getting the coupler on the way on the ball before locking it down or not locking it down period. He insisted he was. Finally figured out he was doing it right but the pin for the locking mechanism was rusty and it wasn't locking and the handle was bouncing up. A little explanation to him and some fluid film and no problem since.

2. There's a nut on the underside of the coupler that adjusts the tightness of the couplers latch plate against the ball. If you have some play between the ball and the coupler, tighten that up some.
 
BC, that's why I always insist on a pin or lock of some type thru the lock hole. Even if it's just a bent nail. I figure it's real cheep insurance.
 
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