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Originally Posted by 841K9
Pins have almost no articulation. Especially when connected to a drawbar.
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Sorry for the confusion - I thought "pin" referred to a euro-style pin-and-jaw coupling, but it appears to mean a clevis and pin. I agree that the clevis setup would have minimal roll or pitch articulation, and I didn't expect anyone to use that other than on a farm or on a cheap lawn tractor (like mine, where my plan is to upgrade to a common ball and coupler some day).
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Originally Posted by 841K9
Pintles in the most common solid mount have almost the same amount as a standard ball hitch.
Now, the rotating pintle on my m1008 is a completely different beast.
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I should have said
pitch articulation (not
roll); pitch movement is about 90 degrees up or down for a pintle hook and ring - that's why I have heard of some people using them off-road, including Darrel who described his setup in
1973 Compact II by Hunter. Of course if you want serious off-road articulation, you can use something like a
Treg.
Pin-and-jaw and pin-and-clevis are dead simple, but still need some safety device on the pin. Pintle hook-and-ring doesn't appear to me to have any obvious stay-coupled advantage, except that it might be a long way to bounce the ring up over the end of the hook, versus the distance to bounce a socket coupler up off of a ball. Of course, because they are normally used in heavy-duty applications, using any of them on a light-duty trailer would be durable, due to the construction rather than anything inherent in the pintle hitch design. Depending on either to work without a proper latching mechanism would be risky, but they usually come with something suitable.
And now back to pinning/locking that conventional ball coupler...
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