How not to do it

[rjreeves]

Exhibit A: Why I rarely let others do anything for/to me.

[tractors1]

Originally Posted by rjreeves

Exhibit A: Why I rarely let others do anything for/to me.

Actually that looks pretty good for an emergency situation!

[Ron in BC]

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Clever use of the scissor jack. Not sure what the muffler clamp does.

Very safety conscious though. Used the webbing as a safety chain.

Ron

[Centex]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

.... Not sure what the muffler clamp does....

First line of defense to keep the tow ring from jumping off the hitch ball.

I 'like' the redundancy of the effort (but no, I wouldn't want to tow it .... it's time to look for a proper pintle hook!)

[John in Santa Cruz]

That looks like a pintle hitch trailer to me, with a piece of a rusty old WDH hitch clamped to it then clamped to that ball mount with the vehicle crummy jack. Scary is right.

[Centex]

Yep, a pintle hitch trailer (tow ring rather than ball hitch on the trailer).

Methinks the rusty old WDH drawbar with ball is actually installed in the vehicle receiver, with the trailer tow ring set over / 'hooked' on the ball.

Looks like the muffler clamp and inverted loose drawbar 'clamped' on top by the jack are all attempts to keep the trailer tow ring from jumping off that ball.

It'd take one heckova bona-fide emergency need to move that trailer a very short distance to try that 'rig' ILO getting a proper pintle hook drawbar for the vehicle.



But then, if doing a one-time slow shuffle of the trailer 1/2 mile down a rural road to a neighbor's place .....

[DanK]

No duct tape? It'll never hold without duct tape

[Ron in BC]

Originally Posted by DanK

No duct tape? It'll never hold without duct tape

Yah, I knew something was missing. With duct tape and baling wire you can fix anything.

Ron

[Viajante]

I’d say it is ingenious. It even has the nylon safety strap hooked up. Hard to criticize it until you know how many miles it towed. Maybe it saved the day and brought the trailer home without a hitch.

[Centex]

Originally Posted by Viajante

..... without a hitch.

touche!