Posted by mkirsch on October 20, 2010 at 12:02:38 from (64.80.108.57):
In Reply to: Welded Hitch posted by Billy Shafer on October 19, 2010 at 14:32:46:
I believe the part that broke would be called the SHANK, or DRAWBAR.
This is the part that inserts into the receiver on the truck, and accepts the hitch ball.
Welded shanks are generally only rated to 5000 or 6000lbs. There is nothing wrong with them as long as you don't try to pull TWO to THREE TIMES as much as they're rated for!!!
In this case, the boss is the idiot for buying the shanks in the first place. He should fire himself.
Now go look at the ratings on the frame-mounted receiver on the trucks you're using to pull these spreaders... I bet they're the factory receivers, and not rated anywhere near what you're pulling with them. A loaded 6-ton fertilizer spreader is going to run about 8 tons gross.
That's pretty typical for a feed mill... The local feed mill delivered loaded fertilizer wagons with 3/4 ton pickups. No brakes, no lights on the wagons. Factory receiver on the truck, and a cheap shank from Walmart...
Those wagons shuck and buck like nobody's business. God help you if you need to stop.
Only in the past couple of years has the feed mill started delivering fertilizer using single and tandem-axle commercial trucks.
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