Croft Pintle Ring Adapters

[Blueegg]

Thinking about easy and cost effective ways to tow military trailers and found this adapter:
https://www.crofttrailer.com/croft-ring-to-coupler-adapter/#page=page-1

Anyone tried one of these on a 101.

 

[sigo]

Only rated CL II, 3,500 lb limit? You'd be right on the limit with a fully loaded M101. Quite a few users routinely overload their M101's, seems like using this adaptor would limit your trailer's usefulness.

I'd go with a ball/pintle combo hitch for your truck. It's a lot more versatile, not much more in price, and are widely available rated for 10,000 lbs.

 

[sigo]

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[ODdave]

Ehh, Id pass. What happens when it flops to the side on a hard brake?

 

[Goose2448]

Get This https://www.crofttrailer.com/pintle...16-hitch-ball-16-000-lb-capacity/#page=page-1

With This https://www.crofttrailer.com/45156-...-hook-adapter-16-000-lb-capacity/#page=page-1

Pintle hitches are better IMHO. Easy, quick, stronger.

 

[quickfarms]

Thinking about easy and cost effective ways to tow military trailers and found this adapter:
https://www.crofttrailer.com/croft-ring-to-coupler-adapter/#page=page-1

Anyone tried one of these on a 101.

That is interesting but why not just tow it with a pintle hook

 

[Flyingvan911]

I would pass. You probably have a 2" receiver on your truck so I would get a slide in pintle hitch for it. It will be much stronger.

 

[WILLYSOVERLAND]

I spent the whole afternoon looking for something like that to tow a air compressor.
The one i saw had two cast iron forms that were round on the outside and the inside looked like a mold for a 2" ball. You put the two half of the mold looking piece over the ball and slide a piece of pipe over the two halves and two bolts went through it, one kept it so the pipe couldn't slide up and the other was so the lunete ring couldn't slide up off the pipe.
If anybody knows what they are called or where to find one, i would be grateful.

 

[sggoat]

Here's what I did with my M101A2
Had a ball/pintle combo installed on my Land Cruiser before I got the 101. Made a two piece pipe combo out of some 2-1/2" copper pipe I had. Just slips down over the ball and keeps the lunette from hammering-only has ~ 1/8" play in the hitch.

 

[KaiserM109]

The inside diameter on an M101 and an M103 (basic frame for M105s and MKTs) is 3 inches.

sggoat, I like that ring you put around the ball.

 

[Tplane37]

Lunette/Drawbar Rings M101-M103-M105

The inside diameter on an M101 and an M103 (basic frame for M105s and MKTs) is 3 inches.

sggoat, I like that ring you put around the ball.

Are these the specs that correspond with the M101/103/105 lunette rings?

 

[clinto]

I'd use that with an MBT/M100/M416 but nothing larger.

 

[MarcusOReallyus]

This is what I use:

http://www.tractorsupply.com/buyers-tri-ball-with-pintle-hook-10-000-gtw-1891048

Works for me!

 

[Tplane37]

I'd be pulling a 32ft 24k lb trailer (designing it at the moment) with a deuce on it from time to time. Wanting to be able to tow the same trailer with my XM211 or my dually depending on what I have on the trailer.

So I want the proper lunette on the trailer to match the pintle on the XM211, and the proper pintle on the dually to match said lunette.