Thread: Towbar

There is a Hundred different ways of doing it.
Mine was on the vehicle when I purchased it.
I like it for the fact I can change from pintle hook to 50mm ball, haymanrease style and it makes a good foot step to climb in the back of the vehicle.

Probably not what you want to see, but you did ask...

The narrow track Sankey is the only thing I currently tow with mine and has a draw bar 3 feet off the ground, so I've never bothered to do anything else. I've just bought an old caravan I'll tow occasionally with this too, but I'll modify the draw bar on that to suit the pintle hook rather than the other way around.

I'll be making a hitch for the RRC that will give me the same height as the 101 so I can tow the Sankey and caravan with that too.

It may not be a bad thing to use a pintle, I'll be towing a Kimberely camper, it surrently has a treg coupling, but could swap to pintle....maybe I could just make a bolt on jigger for the treg coupling, its all I will tow with it

Some pics of my various tow arrangements.

The original Rapier Hitch - I have seen couplings that replace the pintle with a normal reciever hitch bit never seen them for sale.







I then went to a combined pintle/ball hitch that is a bolt on replacement for the original hitch. A good arrangement but you need to get the right one - the one I had I never trusted and the shank on the 50mm ball was smaller than a standard 50mm ball.



Finally one based on the Rapier Hitch but using a receiver hitch





Note all these rely in the integrity of the rear cross member so if you have doubts then you need something else. I was going to put a Disco 1 Hayman Reece bar on that has stabiliser bars that go back to the chassis bit that would have meant drilling through the chassis and putting crush tubes in and re-routing the exhaust so I did not bother.

The 101 has a 2 tonne tow rating - on or off road - so I was happy with that my rear cross member was good enough for that.

Cheers

Garry

Originally Posted by rovercare

It may not be a bad thing to use a pintle, I'll be towing a Kimberely camper, it surrently has a treg coupling, but could swap to pintle....maybe I could just make a bolt on jigger for the treg coupling, its all I will tow with it

Pintle hook is a dream to connect compared to a treg. Some say they make a lot of noise, but I've not found I can hear that much over the 101 anyway...

And, with a decent nose weight, that is minimised.

Originally Posted by bacicat

Pintle hook is a dream to connect compared to a treg. Some say they make a lot of noise, but I've not found I can hear that much over the 101 anyway...

And, with a decent nose weight, that is minimised.

And you will have fewer people asking to 'borrow' your trailer...

Originally Posted by drifter

And you will have fewer people asking to 'borrow' your trailer...

Yep, no one else in the street has a pintle hook on their cars that is 3 feet off the ground...

If someone really wants the trailer, they'll get it

Where did you say you lived, Gav?