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Trailer comes off at 75mph
Cutter, it was as smooth as a ball hitch, no motion at all.
A properly sized and mated pair of lunette ring and pintle hitch will not have any motion since they are both supposed to be rounded on the contact surfaces, the lunette ring is round stock, and the pintle should have a matching rounded bottom of the hook.
Mind you my truck as loaded heading out (see my pic. # 5, except without the jet boat) wasn't likely to be anything but smooth!! 
Best of luck.
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I looked at that hitch this weekend Murf and don't see a way to convert it to a pintle without butchering the thing. If I need to do that I may try to convert it to electric/hydraulic brakes.
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Cutter, I take it from your comments that the coupler portion, the part the ball slips into, is an integral part that goes back into the surge brake actuator and is a single monolithic unit?
If that's the case, depending on the make, Atwood, Demco or others, you may be able to buy a replacement coupler, other wise you just have to buy a replacement actuator (the surge brake coupler) itself.
Best of luck.
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This maybe a simpler solution.
I took the hitch pictured below and ground a bit of metal off the top latch so it will close and lock over the top of the coupler.
I came up with this after consulting with Murf about the negative loads placed on the hitch when operating the dump trailer.
The side benefit is that it will certainly keep a firm grip on a coupler at highway speeds and is cheaper than replacing the coupler and all that brake stuff.
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EA
Actually I had the feeling like a Wild animal was watching me (Bear), Im sure you get that feeling (wild animals watching you) where you have been living this past few years. Its a creepy feeling and side tracts your thoughts. I already said I had my head up my behind! Pushing it further up is not required since I just got my bill for the new woods driveshaft parts. Try 300 bucks!
Oh, Anyone want to buy a "never used" KK drive shaft for a 72" brush cutter? I paid 165 will part with it for 90
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BS...er...BA, lemme bring ya up to speed, son: I have been back since March of '07--gone for a year and a half. That's a year and a half I'll never get back!
$90! I bought one from TSC new for $50--they had a bunch that got separated from the implements and were more than happy to off them cheap. I'll sell it to you for $85 plus shipping. Not.
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I had a class 3 hitch break off & snap all the bolt's mounting it to the frame of the truck. Luckily I was traveling on back roads doing 25 mph. Nothing was majorly damaged other then the hitch itself. The hitch did alot of damage to the asphalt on the road though as it dug in as it was sliding to a stop. The worst part was I has no way to get the trailer home which had my John Deere 790 on it at the time. It was an awkward situation because I had no cell service, I was alone & I had no way to rehitch up so I was forced leaving the tractor there on the side of the road while I drove down the road a few miles to an area that had cell service. I was praying that no theif's come by while i was gone!
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GG: Maybe next (if there is a next time), take the tractor off the trailer, hitch the trailer to the tractor and load the truck. Then yer off! My 33hp hydro NH can easily pull a fully-loaded 15,000 GVW trailer.
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Earth - That is a great Idea however I had the backhoe on at the time.
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I've pulled many a trailer into/out of backyards where I couldn't get a truck with my medium-size backhoe. Just hooked the safety chains together and hooked them to the BH bucket teeth.
Shoot, you could even pull it backward with a hole for the hitch ball in the front bucket (I did that too ONCE but pulled the ball clean out of the bucket since I couldn't keep the attitude of the bucket to the trailer correct)
Anywho... seriously though, I read about a guy up Murf's way that welded a hitch ball to the back of his BH bucket and installed a tow bar on the front of his pickup. What he would do is drive the backhoe to the job with truck in tow. Once at the job, and done for the day he'd leave the backhoe there and drive the truck home.
And having a ball on the back of a BH bucket is not only handy for placing trailers in/on/over obstacles to keep thieves at bay, but it's handy for hooking a chain or rope onto.
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