Question for Canadian trailer owners (1 Viewer)

[Jason YY]

Are the common couplers in CA measured in mm?

Have you ever seen and couplers from Trigg for sale in Canada in person or on the Web?

If you own a Trigg brand coupler where did you buy it, and are you happy with it.

 

[RockDoc]

My experience has always been the same as the standard US options. 1-7/8", 2", 2-5/16" balls, pintle and lunette, 2-5/16" gooseneck... the balls may additionally be stamped with an equivalent ##mm size.
1-1/4", 2", 2-1/2" receiver tubes.

I have not heard of Trigg. Curt, Reese, Buyers, Bulldog, Hit-N-Hitch come to mind as brands I see.

 

[ntsqd]

I believe it is these Treg couplers that are being asked about: https://www.tregtrailers.com.au/shop/treg-poly-block-couplings/treg-p-b-weld-on/ For whatever reason they are not available in the US.

I've come full swing on non ball couplers and now believe that if the lunette ring is sized correctly for the pintle hitch in use that they are reasonably quiet and undoubtedly the strongest solution available. The super critical key there is that the lunette's cross-sectional OD nearly fit tight in the pintle's opening. That is how they are designed to work, but some mfg's cheap it out and make that dimension much smaller than it needs to be. Which makes them noisey.

 

[Jason YY]

Trigg casting is an AU manufacturer , I am currently using a Bulldog Collar loc
Getting parts for my new project, noticed some interesting cast couplers made by Trigg.

 

[ntsqd]

Hum, never heard of them. Not a surprise given their normal market.

What's so special about these other than they lock onto the ball in a unique method?

 

[cruiserpilot]

Trigg is really old school. I had one on a 1965 Campomatic. Didn’t weigh much. Would trust it
off road. They wouldn’t meet legal standards of new anymore maybe, I wouldn’t think.
They are a lift, turn, couple kind of thing. It was neat. That Tregg is a completely different animal.

 

[ntsqd]

I've been slowly moving away from ball couplers on everything that I own. Only one of the fleet of potential tow rigs isn't 4WD. The pintle makes a better and much faster snatch strap anchor than any shackle system that I've seen. The trailers having only a lunette sure cuts down on the number asking to borrow one of them.

 

[Jason YY]

That’s one of the reasons I am inquiring, they have several different Cast Lunette options.

 

[ntsqd]

FWIW: My first swiveling lunette was based on this: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00153ZTXO (amazon lists it as NLA, but etrailer shows it)
It became part of this:

For a sense of scale, those 4 bolts are 9/16" X 7.00" long.

The next one didn't need to rotate, so I built it off of this: https://www.etrailer.com/Lunette-Ring/Buyers-Products/337B18128.html

 

[Chris Wilcox]

As a response to your first question. What you have in the USA is what we have in Canada. 1-7/8", 2" etc.
First time I every heard of Trigg.

 

[Jason YY]

I ordered some fun stuff , see if it makes it
look for my unboxing videos on YouTube