Cheater neck.

I'm pretty happy with it. The stinger is pretty solid; as a matter of fact, my co driver happened to smack into it the other day while I was loaded and grossing 154k+ and didn't so much as scratch the paint (he was careless and pulled up behind me and forgot to pull it out of gear; hit it hard enough to where he ####-eyed his hood and broke one of his leafspring hangers on a Pete 389...)
Hooking up isn't too bad as long as you drop/hook it on a flat and solid surface...A pry bar and a second pair of hands helps immensely though! As long as you get one side pinned you can hook your lines up, air the stinger up and pull forward/backward to get the other side lined up.
My one real complaint is there is no air adjustment on it. Once you put the shims in and air it up, it's full pressure- period. Makes it so that I have to jump out and pull the shims before I go over any large speedbumps, etc. because I'm wary of how it would end up putting all that torque/pressure on the spreader frame! Other than that one thing though no complaints so far (we got it new June of last year)