Talking big rigs, semi's have the best and safest hitch over a truck and trailer's pintle hitch setup.
Pintle hitch and ring are half the size of a semi's 5th wheel pin, pintle hitch requires safety chains should the hitch fail, due to the slack in a pintle hitch it has a rougher jerky ride over a 5th wheel.
Truck trailer combo does have advantages.
Trailer trails the truck better with less chance of dropping the trailers wheels off the road in tight turns, you can unhook the trailer and still use to truck for small jobs or in tight locations where a semi can't go.
Our local mill uses both depending on the job, semi's haul all of the lumber and waste wood from the mill and use a truck with out a trailer for small local deliveries.
Truck trailer combos are used for hauling logs from the woods with occasional use of semi's depending on roads traveled and yarding room to maneuver semi's in.
Here logs are cut to length in the woods, in areas where tree length is hauled a semi would be needed.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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