Recent content by Ugly1

It says flatbed on its birth cirtificate. I would want to do the Spin Free locking hub conversion before I try torun 40s" Probably need at least an inch an a half more of wheel offset to not rub at full lock. Gonna need some decent wheel bearings on there or Ill be replacing unit bearings every...

Keeping center of gravity low seems like the right thing to do and so figured others would already be doing this....since I could never figured out what they are supposed to be called I never did find any discussions about others doing thjis kind of build. Maybe they are out there somewhere and...

This is for anybody who cares. And maybe I was too dumb to find the right keywords, or whatever. I searched here and everywhere else I could think of and never came up with what I was hoping for so ended up calling around with fabricators, since I live here in the middle of the land of flatbed...

Most of the Smittybilt hook is over an inch thick. They do not have the thinner areas in the middle of the body like that USCargo and most rigging hooks I've seen . Who knows, maybe the Chinese grade 80 is inferior but they sure do seem to use a lot of it in the construction. These things look...

Not made in thed USA but they come up for just over $30 on occasion. Both ends of a tree saver easily fit in there and it's big enough so it fits over one of my vertical fairlead rollers so most of it tucks in there pretty nicely between the horizontal rollers...

Couldn't tell you. I've never sold or bought any, personally. Nor can I tell you about the applications of the customers of those who do sell them. Though looking at my trucks frame I'm not so sure that would be the case. My eneducated mind is telling me the 30klbish range, the 1" kinetic ropes...

Presumably the designers (engineers?) of the grade 8 hitch pins figure there is a need for such things, or at least a market. But it's not as though the examples I've seen are being sold at take the money and run pricing. Maybe their customers have better quality hitches installed that can come...

Hmm. This idea that a 30klbish MBS synthetic recovery line can be thought of as a fuse, while using a factory class IV hitch that fails somewhere under 25klb's, seems a bit flawed. Even the class V I'm looking at will be barely enough for the dynamic ropee I'm looking at. The safety margin...

Your hitch, recievers and pins all have lifting equipment ratings? sweet. What brand?

That sounds one better than the Grade 8's. Thank you!

Weirdly my hitch, recievers or my pin didn't come with any instructions telling me how failures will happen. And when they do, I had no clue it could be assumed they will all behave the same, as yours did, under the varying conditions I am likely to put them through. And maybe even weirder I had...

That is a good thread, thanks. Though they never realy delve specifically into the pins very deeply. I think you could argue that whichever method you decide to go with, and there seems to be some pretty good ideas on that thread for sure, they all could potentially be even safer with stronger...

I just want the strongest hitch pin you can get. What is it?

Dodge 2500, Gas engine. Maybe 6000lbs up to 8000 loaded for camping. As before, not an ME. I thought my question was clear. Not looking for engineering data, but recomendations for better hitch pins. Thanks for the info about shear vs tensile. My intention was not to rewrite the rules but to...

You forgot to quote the rest where I warned everyone I, I'm not an expert in the subject. I thought that might clue people in but great catch. Do you happen to have any advice relevant to the topic of the thread?