Thread: Towbar

Originally Posted by stuee

When mine is on the road I'm keen to hire a camper trailer a few times so the dual pintle/hayman style hitches look great to me.

If you go a bar with a 2" receiver hitch you can just swap the from normal hitch with a ball to one with a pintle bolted to it.

Wth the lower mounted tow hitches ect ground clearance off road appears not to be a problem due to the back of the 101 being so short and close to the rear wheels.
A modified rapier hitch looks to be a good set up using the Hayman type receiver.
I have nearly gone completely over to Lunette and pintle on my vehicles, under load they don't rattle and much easier to just drop the lunette over the pintle than to stuff around trying to line up pins off a civie off road hitch.
Note dual purpose 50mm ball and pintle combination/all in one arrangements do have extra play in the pintle side of things and wear much more, but work OK for use every now and then.

Im planning to mount nato pintle directly onto plate on rear cross as standard however that plate will have a receiver hitch on much like some shown above and a step for SWMBO to climb into the back (side hinged rear gate)

Originally Posted by spongie

Im planning to mount nato pintle directly onto plate on rear cross as standard however that plate will have a receiver hitch on much like some shown above and a step for SWMBO to climb into the back (side hinged rear gate)

Now that's a whole new thread - how to get in and out the back of the silly things when you old, fat, unfit, have short legs or all of those...

I would like to make up something that folds out but haven't worked out what I want yet. We leave the trailer on when camping, so it needs to work to one side, not in the centre. I just use a set of fold out steps ATM but still looking for something better.

Sorry about the hijack...

Originally Posted by bacicat

Now that's a whole new thread - how to get in and out the back of the silly things when you old, fat, unfit, have short legs or all of those...

I would like to make up something that folds out but haven't worked out what I want yet. We leave the trailer on when camping, so it needs to work to one side, not in the centre. I just use a set of fold out steps ATM but still looking for something better.

Sorry about the hijack...

Might need a bigger one for some members here ?

Originally Posted by 101 Ron

Might need a bigger one for some members here ?