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farmerjohn

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I am going to move a small building, using a heavy trailer with a pintle hitch. How can I hook it to a farm tractor, I did not want to go to a lot of expense or work/manufacturing, this is a one time job, 1/2 mile, no public roads, but I do not want it to come unhooked and lose my load.
 
I use a clevis to move a dump trailer around, off road, with a tractor. It can be as much as 15,000 lbs. I never had a problem doing it.
 
Just yesterday we had the same question. Ended up putting a hammer strap on the drawbar and a hitchpin thru it to connect the trailer. A little slop, but that depends on the diameter of your pintle hitch.
 
How I have used pintle hitch rings on tractor draw bars is to take a large bolt an a piece of pipe that is larger than the bolt and the hole in your drawbar. The pipe needs to be small enough to fit through the eye on the pintle hitch. Then cut the pipe to make a bushing taller than the hitch eye is thick. I also use two larger washers or plates cut out of flat steel top and bottom of the bolt.

The hook up, back up so the pintle hitch is right over your drawbar hole. Then put one washer between the pintle eye and the drawbar. Then lower the pintle eye down on to the washer/drawbar. Then but the bushing/pipe in the eye with the other washer on top. Put your bolt through the drawbar/washers/pipe/bushing. Tighten the bolt up and your good to go. The bushing will allow the pintle eye to move but the top washer keeps it form coming off.
 
Bolt a pipe or something round with enough diameter to fill the pintle ring using at least a 3/4" diameter bolt, onto the drawbar set the pintle ring down over it and you are good to go. If you are concerned about the pintle ring jumping off, bolt a heavy strap or something similar across the top of it. Clear as mud? It's really simple. I pulled a one ton pintle hitch trailer behind a pickup for several thousand miles that way.
 
A simple plow clevis is your best bet. If the load is heavy use a bolt and but rather than hitch pin so it doesn't spread.
 
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