Couplemate has manufactured a rather simple pintle hitch to ELIMINATE excessive wear around the tow ball.
Note: Wear occurs with conventional combination pintle hitches.
2" Tow Ball rated at 7700lbs
Hook fits 3" Ring Hitch.
Snap closed under tension and pin for safety.
Safety is the largest issue concerning Pintle hooks and receivers. Ever seen one of these?
Producing a product that could hurt someone concerns me greatly.
My job as President of Couplemate Trailer Parts is to lead the field with our products by insuring all Couplemate products exceed National Safety Standards.
Pintle Hooks have long been regarded as too hard to fix ball wear on Combination Hooks. The problem has never been addressed until now.
Combination Hooks have been seen as a compromise product that does not really work with constant ball changes due to excessive wear when the hook is used in 3" Ring Coupler mode. The image below of ball wear is quite common.
Ball wear reduction is not an option. In our opinion, Ball wear must be essentially eliminated.
The above tow ball was removed from a Pintle hook and brought to me. The customer just wanted to replace the ball, get the same wear and replace the ball again and again until something else breaks and maybe hurts someone.
The CM532 is now being marketed as the Safest alternative to ALL existing Pintle Hook Couplers on the market today.
Towing can safely be undertaken with either a ball or Pintle coupler.
The success of this design is in the casting. The ring coupler cannot get close to the ball to cause wear.
To ensure Safety is maintained, two people are required to engage this Pintle Hook when connecting the trailer to the vehicle.
The winged bar must be held down by one person while the other person winds down the jack and aligns the ring coupler into the Pintle coupler.
The ring pulls on a higher rated surface in the casting and creates no noise from wear or slack.
This Pintle Coupler is certain to gain popularity quickly due to its cost saving and safety features.
It's not often a product comes along which is Safer and more Economical to use with No ball replacement.
See SAE Test results in Technical Specifications
