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Old 20th July 2008, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by incisor View Post
hyland are fine IF you have a fairly light ball weight. tho at any weight they can wear at the edges of the cup as the float and can bind which can cause the ball to undo and leave the towbar.. the design really requires an extended shank tow ball so that limits you to 2 tonne loading. seen way to many fitted incorrectly and have seen too many damaged units to even consider using one of them myself..

that said, heaps of people love em...
Thanks, I read through one of your threads on this topic and, even though the ball weight is only 130kg and the trailer is probably only around 1 tonne, it turned me off the hyland.
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