Hey Rustyj14

From my trailer post a couple of pages down, you replied:

[i:654c4848f0]If you hauled with that hitch set-up, here in PA. and the law saw it--you'd be settin on the road-side, reading a big, fat, ticket! Whew! For anything heavier than a small row boat, they require a hitch like the Reese, as used for travel trailers. for heavy equipment, they require beefier hitches. And also, anti-sway stuff, too[/i:654c4848f0]

What exactly is wrong with that setup? The hitch on the truck IS a Reese-type, with factory hitch, ball and mount. It is a frame mount receiver, not a bumper-pull.

The hitch on the trailer is also factory installed, with NO modification, other than the winch mount welded to the A-frame.

And I HAVE hauled with that rig in PA with no problems, not so much as a funny look.

WE just look at you funny cause we don't know if you love guns and go to church. put your rifle in the back windor and paint a cross on zee fender and we won't look at you funny anymore.

Well, my truck is all the same color too, that gets me funny looks in Pennsyltucky. I need to find me a primered front fender and a Bondo door...

"8^)

Well you try driveing in Penn's woods very much and you have your primed fender and bondo door too. just too dang many trees round here, oh yeah I used to have a Ford 8n but I sold it.

Hey, fellers, i have the required Ford pickemup with the primered fender and hood. Got them from a deer that didn't stop when i went by!
As for the hitch: Yes, i recognize the hitch as pictured, but here-a-bouts, it is called a boat trailer hitch. Not to be used for a big flat-bed trailer made from a travel or mobile home trailer. Safe for a tent trailer, or one that folks use to haul a small lawn tractor, or something similar. Here, they get down-right huffy if they see ya pulling a heavy load on that small hitch.
But, of course, you can use whatever you want, but i've heard of folks who saw a large trailer(only) passing their pickup, on the hiway, and remarking that the other guy had a tractor just like the one they had just bought 10 miles back!
Being in the Fire company, and doing wrecks on the Interstate, i saw travel trailers that had been hitched to a boat trailer hitch, which had broken or twisted off while going down the hiway. Not much stays on the trailer, except the commode! Or, the trailer sails down the embankment, with the removable slide in hitch part still in the coupler.
OTH--i saw a nice Oldsmobile Station wagon hauling a travel trailer, on a boat hitch, without anti-sway bars and still attached to the trailer--hung up on the divider fence on the Pa. Turnpike. Driver looked slightly bewildered!
And, PA. doen't allow a hitch ball in the bumper, for anything heavier than hauling a canoe, or a small lawn tractor. But, folks say:"Aw, pshaw, the state boys don't know anything about hauling a trailer!" as they go weaving down the hiway!