Re: Drawbar ball hitch

Posted by Kevin (FL) on June 02, 2004 at 21:48:46 from (12.77.200.172):

In Reply to: Drawbar ball hitch posted by CityBoy on June 02, 2004 at 20:08:16:

Cityboy--You can either bolt on at least one angle iron (on one side) to one of your stabilizer links or if you don't have those you can fabricate something to go up to your top link connection.

On the top link setup, I've seen folks use 2 pipes welded to a triangular shaped plate and then a small section of 3 x 1/2" flatbar is welded along the plate and it has a hole in it to line up with the top link connection. For the drawbar end they splice in a short length of flatbar and heat/bend as needed to line up with the drawbar surface and then drill holes to match the outer holes (or close to outer-most) on the drawbar.

On the side (stabilizer bar) setup you can trim about 4" off of one flange (say on a 3x2 angle iron) and drill a hole to bolt to your drawbar and then trim the opposite end and heat/bend a section of the remainging flange to bolt through the stabilizer bar. One side is OK for light loads but for heavier trailers you could put one on each side. Sounds pretty complicated without a drawing, but I think you'll see what I mean.

I welded my trailer hitch to my lift boom so I don't have the problem you're asking about--if you have a lift boom you could try that too. Some lift booms may be too shallow an angle to do that--the boom would end up hitting the boat, but mine is near straight up so it doesn't get in the way.

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