Is This Legal?

[demiles]

On my home from work today and came up along side this guy with a gigantic hook sticking out of the hitch. WTH! Is this even legal? It looks like a hazard to me for sure.
The Hook

[Bedlam]

That hook for someone who constantly gets stuck and needs to be extracted. You wouldn't use that to extract someone else.

[downtheroad]

yup, only thing missing is the pit bull in the bed...
Man, we are having fun now.

[thomasmnile]

downtheroad wrote:

Probably just as legal as those idiot bull ba!!s

Those things still around??? Thought they were replaced by 6" bed stacks.....:B

[BarryG20]

While I was in the service long ago as well as current construction trailer use a pintle hitch with an open hook would not be secure and certainly wouldn't be DOT compliant. The pintle hook has a top piece that secures down with a pin after it goes hrough the ring on the trailer hitch. While they do sell hooks like that to go in a receiver hitch they are for recovery or show in this case not trailer towing use.

[GeoBoy]

romore wrote:
Next time you see it parked throw a loop of chain around it and hook to a tree.:B DutchmenSport is referring to a pintle hitch which that isn't.

X2

[Old-Biscuit]

Well........

I'm having to eat crow! (choking right now) :B


The dang thing is REAL.

Huge tow hook for 2" receiver----rated at 45,000 LBS and only $205!



Sold by Monster Hooks

[Bmach]

That is way way to big to be real.

[romore]

Next time you see it parked throw a loop of chain around it and hook to a tree.:B DutchmenSport is referring to a pintle hitch which that isn't.

[Old-Biscuit]

Come on gang...it's just for laughs not real. Made of plastic.
Like those bull balls or bloody arms hanging out of car trunks


If real it would be used on gantry cranes with 20 ton capabilities

[bagomike]

In Ill. it's legal, if it was over 4' it has to have a flag, but you could get a ticket for taking the picture with your phone while driving, LOL

[GordonThree]

A nod to Dutchmen, I've seen a lot of those around here on logging equipment trailers and the trucks that service them.

That one looks a lot bigger than the typical hook. I'm with downtheroad, it's a "compensator hook"

[DutchmenSport]

Those hitches are used for transporting construction trailers. The tongue on the trailer are a round donught . The hook catches the hole of the donught. We had those type of hitches in the Army on almost everything.

click here.

[downtheroad]

Certainly is just for show. Looking at the paint, it has never been hooked to anything.
Probably just as legal as those idiot bull ba!!s that I see hanging off the hitch of some trucks.