Thread: Poor man's Pintle?

I had this conversation with my dad yesterday he said he has done it before.

Yep.
As you said, find out how to convert a No.5 pintle to rotate.
The 1 ton cargo (Crump & Cornish) lunettes rotate.

Holy smokes batman, that was some quick responses!
Thanks fellas.
Do Army Track trailers have rotating lunettes?

Originally Posted by isuzutoo-eh

G'day all,
Can one use the pictured hitch for towing a lunette equipped trailer, such as those spiffy green ones that keep coming up for auction?


Obviously it can't rotate so the lunette would have to do so.

Is it a long-term solution or just to get the trailer home ?

From memory farm trailers in the UK didn't always have a rotating lunette. There is enough slack for the lunette to move by quite a few degrees but they do rattle a bit when towing.


Colin

Long term solution. No trailer purchased yet, or for quite some time. The question had been bothering me though.
Both my Landies have the same set-up, so if I could get a trailer that suits both, it would be more useful. Neither has a receiver style hitch so can't just get a proper pintle on an adapter and swap across.

Dixon Bate in the UK would have something but too heavy to make it sensible to ship out here.


Colin

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Thought they were expensive here !!

Colin

Dont have to go UK still expensive though

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