mfrench
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OK,... any help appreciated, as I'm just taking my first look into a Pintel hitch.
Vehicle:
'99 Dodge 2500HD Cummins 4x4 5speed 3/4ton single axle
stock height, which is quite tall. This is going to require a drop mount mounting plate/hitch.
I see quite a spread of sizes of Pintel, raning from low tonnage rating, to quite substantial ton rating.
My mind has me thinkning about landing in the middle, medium range.
Objective:
To be able to rent a dual axle 2 or 3 yard dumping trailer. This might amount to 6k lbs of potential trailer load?
Past problem:
Rental yard does not have a drop down mount plate. To hook up to a straight Pintel mount has two of the trailer wheels off the ground; dangerous, and it looks like spinner rims.
I actually had the trailer try to jack knife me, because only two of the four wheels had any braking applied by the thrust brake. The rental yard assured me that the load of gravel that I was after would weigh the trailer down to cause contact of a lifted wheel pair. Fail.
So, to avoid that near-catastrophe, I'm looking at my own pintel hitch and mount.
please and thanks
Vehicle:
'99 Dodge 2500HD Cummins 4x4 5speed 3/4ton single axle
stock height, which is quite tall. This is going to require a drop mount mounting plate/hitch.
I see quite a spread of sizes of Pintel, raning from low tonnage rating, to quite substantial ton rating.
My mind has me thinkning about landing in the middle, medium range.
Objective:
To be able to rent a dual axle 2 or 3 yard dumping trailer. This might amount to 6k lbs of potential trailer load?
Past problem:
Rental yard does not have a drop down mount plate. To hook up to a straight Pintel mount has two of the trailer wheels off the ground; dangerous, and it looks like spinner rims.
I actually had the trailer try to jack knife me, because only two of the four wheels had any braking applied by the thrust brake. The rental yard assured me that the load of gravel that I was after would weigh the trailer down to cause contact of a lifted wheel pair. Fail.
So, to avoid that near-catastrophe, I'm looking at my own pintel hitch and mount.
please and thanks