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Offline piersm2

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Tow bar
« on: Sep 17, 2019, 05:22 PM »
What are people using for a tow bar that would fit a 2” ball?
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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #1 on: Sep 17, 2019, 06:45 PM »
Tow bar for??? Sled, flipover, what? 2" ball? Whaddya pullin' with full size vehicle?
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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #2 on: Sep 17, 2019, 07:05 PM »
One man flip over.  Either pull it with my atv or truck.  Rather than throwing it in the back of the truck all the time.  I used a rope behind my atv and it gets a bit sketchy
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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #3 on: Sep 17, 2019, 09:12 PM »
You probably won't find a beefier hitch than the Otter hitches.  Although, I'm not sure how it would work behind a truck.

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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #4 on: Sep 17, 2019, 09:19 PM »
as long as you only use it to tow you fish house you could go with the following stuff :

the hitch that plugs into your receiver on your wheeler or truck :

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001Q4VILY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

the put either one of these on your house for a tow bar :

https://shop.clamoutdoors.com/pro-series-hitch.html

or

https://shop.clamoutdoors.com/universal-hitch.html
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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #5 on: Sep 18, 2019, 06:54 AM »
https://www.otteroutdoors.com/product/hitch-pivot/ I'd add that to a hitch....it makes going over heaves or small cut banks easier from what I've seen


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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #6 on: Sep 18, 2019, 08:04 AM »
I made a tow bar out of 3/4 inch conduit and a carabineer style snap ring from Home Depot. cut the conduit to 4' lengths and flatten the ends. dripp a half inch hole and round out the corners. It snaps around the shaft of a two inch ball on my wheeler and won't lift off.
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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #7 on: Sep 18, 2019, 08:10 AM »
I made a tow bar out of 3/4 inch conduit and a carabineer style snap ring from Home Depot. cut the conduit to 4' lengths and flatten the ends. dripp a half inch hole and round out the corners. It snaps around the shaft of a two inch ball on my wheeler and won't lift off.

X2 on this, I did something similiar for my one man flip. Now if you were towing something bigger I would recommend something comercially made to handle the weight. For a one man I would make it myself and yes ditch the rope, that will mess some stuff up.
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Re: Tow bar
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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #9 on: Sep 18, 2019, 11:39 AM »
 Or you could  run a rope thru a 4' section of pipe and connect up close so it don't try to pass you.

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Re: Tow bar
« Reply #10 on: Sep 18, 2019, 11:26 PM »



Here is the style hitch I use. Plenty of flip over hitches for on the shack from multiple companies will work.

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