Pintle hook onto removable flat tongue towbar

[thedrover]

Howdy everyone!

I am in the process of restoring a #5 army trailer, which comes ready to be towed with a pintle hook. I want to keep it this way. After restoration, it needs to be towed home, some 000's of kms, behind a tarago.

Some of you may be familiar with a tarago towbar. It is a flat tongue removable mount for a 50mm towball.

I have seen the adapter plates for the square hayman reece hitch, where you then bolt on the pintle hook to that.

Haven't seen anything like that for a flat hitch, so I guess it is down to making it. Is the consideration purely physical (ie if it is strong enough it will do), or is there an engineering/legal consideration too?

Be assured the trailer will be embarrassed being towed with this combination, but I'm not about to tow a 16t trailer with the pintle hook.

[pop058]

I made an adapter that would fit into a standard 50mm ball mounting hole. I used it to secure my camper trailer on my car trailer (when I needed to move both at once). The winch base plate (which was designed as removable) fitted into my car trailer winch mount pedestal.

I cut a 150mm boat trailer roller down to make 2 cones that clamp (16 x 125mm HT bolt and nyloc nut) the lunette ring. I don't know how legal it would be on the road, but worked great in my situation. I have heard of this type of thing being available from trailer shops, but would probably cringe at the price, particularly for a once only job like yours.

HTH

[Mick_Marsh]

I think there may be engineering considerations.
Have a chat with Hayman Reece or some other towbar manufacturer. They may have a solution. It might be expensive though.

What I would be doing is replacing the lunette on the No.5. It's held on with six nuts I think. There is a fellow on this forum who made a "L" shaped bracket that bolted to those six studs and a 50mm ball hitch was bolted to the bracket. When you get the trailer home, swap them back.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/11/148.jpg

[thedrover]

I guess that's probably easiest. The picture you posted has a nice looking 50mm hitch example.

[thedrover]

Here is the solution employed. It drops the hitch 140mm from centre of drawbar to centre of towball. Looking to put the original hitch back on (which I don't have)

PM me if you have a spare pintle ring (lunette) you would like to sell.