How to tow with a nato hitch (1 Viewer)

[Warrenpfo]

I want to get a Sankey trailer but they all have nato hitches and my ARB bar does not have a nato reciever and on contacting my local ARB agent they say ARB does not make one.

Does anyone tow with a nato hitch receiver and an ARB rear bar and if so how??

 

[Rubiconcruiser]

If you are referring to the Pintle Hitch and Lunette coupler its all in your local stores, the so called NATO is a non entity. They are trying to convert all US apparatus to UN sanction, but that is another thread on mud under politica.

 

[spotcruiser]

You can buy bolt-on pintle hitches and pintle hitch receiver mounts. No big deal. You can also buy combination ball/pintle receiver hitches.

http://www.etrailer.com/dept-pg-Ball_Mounts-sf-Pintle_Hitch.aspx

 

[Mark W]

WTF is a "NATO Hitch"?


Mark...

 

[e9999]

a bit of context and details would help...

 

[Dell]

NATO



chinese std



adj. receiver mount





a well built hitch comes in handy... lol

http://www.google.com/url?source=im...wc4lAE&usg=AFQjCNEVOeAfloho7N0yWlxd43z0ssnOdA

 

[PAToyota]

Google Images of "sankey trailer" is just showing a military trailer with a lunette. So spotcruiser's link should work for you.

 

[FJ40-GARAGE]

WTF is a "NATO Hitch"?


Mark...

Its a Pintle hook for europeans.

Size:

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Additional information.

We do have different ones also *Zugmaulkupplung*

But they need their own counterpart.

Not rotating and much smaller than the pintle/NATO couplings.

I bought myself something different.

Combined Ball/Zugmaulkupplung manufacturer African Hoe.

 

[Warrenpfo]

Thanks all for the help and sorry for the confusion. In the UK what you call a Pintle and lunette the pommies call a Nato hook...dont ask me why but they do.

You have solved my problem but now i just need to try and source the parts as they are not common here in the stores so will require shipping from the US.

Sankey trailers are ex military and make a great base for a 4x4 trailer. they start out like this

and can end up like this

Standard they carry 750kg are braked and make a fantastic platform to mod from.

 

[FJ40-GARAGE]

I can only guess that you are from australia??

http://www.jostaustralia.com.au/pdfs/buyers/PH/bpcph5wmk.pdf

http://www.transparts.com.au/default.asp

http://www.etrailerparts.com.au/index.html?c387.html&1

http://www.wctrailerparts.com.au/shop/product/category/pintle_hooks/11

New Zealand ?

http://www.trailequip.co.nz/store/pintle-hooks

 

[Mark W]

Odd, you know that pintles and lunettes were in use in England/Europe long before NATO ever came into existence. Wonder what they called them then?

I would assume that while they may not be common in places most people have reason to shop, they have to be readily available via industrial/agricultural supply sources. If not, they are reaily available via mail order and internet sources too.

here is one site... http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/NTESearch?storeId=6970&Ntt=pintle

The pin type connection that Peter posted a pic of is also common in heavy duty applications for use with a lunette.

Mark...

 

[greentruck]

Odd, you know that pintles and lunettes were in use in England/Europe long before NATO ever came into existence. Wonder what they called them then?

SNIP

Mark...

I think the key to why the NATO terminology is called "national service" AKA in the US as "the draft." Many still have this, even though we abandoned the draft for all practical purposes 40 years ago. If you send many of your younguns through the Army, everyone in society will start picking that sort of standardized terminology up after a few years.

 

[western flyer]

Thanks all for the help and sorry for the confusion. In the UK what you call a Pintle and lunette the pommies call a Nato hook...dont ask me why but they do.




and can end up like this





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I had to look up what a "pommie" was. I learned something today.