Posted by Determined on December 09, 2018 at 05:27:38 from (216.130.212.201):
In Reply to: Pintle hitch posted by SVcummins on December 08, 2018 at 22:17:25:
Depends on what you are hauling and what you are hauling it with.
I have the style where the top piece closes fully against the top of the ball, has worked good for 30+ years but in all that time I have never used it to pull a ball type trailer.
Most of the trailers I have with ball hitch I needed to use a receiver with a 4-6 inch drop so they would ride level behind my old dually.
My new dually has a flat deck, the receiver hitch is built into the deck and is lower than the old truck but even with that I still need to use a drop hitch to achieve a level trailer.
If your truck or trailer is too high or low and you can't utilize it for pintle and ball applications then might just as well buy a dedicated pintle hitch.
Quite a few cobbled together farm wagons where the ring may not have been made of large enough diameter material for the style you posted to properly keep locked in.
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