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Regular or with a ball?

07-22-2003, 01:33 PM

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MarkF

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Regular or with a ball?

Have to buy a pintle hitch for my reciever. I already have a ton of othe recievers with various size balls. I use a nice adjustable (via pins) drop hitch rated for 10K with a 2 & 5/16 ball for towing my equipment trailer.
I have recently been towing two other trailers for someone else quite a bit and they are both pintle ring trailers. I have been borrowing a pintle with a 2" ball for this but need to buy my own. The question is: Which is better and why? A regular pintle hitch, or one with a trailer ball on it. I dont really need the trailer ball style since I have an assortment of other reciever hitches but are they better then the regular style?
Thanks in advance.
Mark

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