Class 3 reciever install?

I have seen trucks before that put a ball hitch on the back and used the class 8 tractor to yank around an RV or boat. I have not taken a close up look at how they did it, but I have seen it done.

Technically, there is still a requirement to log it if you are pulling anything on there for hire. There is no requirement to log it driving if you are pulling your own stuff for recreational purposes.

 

etrailer.com sells a few that might work for you. Some are bolt in, others need welded up.

Towing > Specialty Hitches > Heavy Duty Truck Hitches.

 

i did something similar with by T2000

i got a "pintle hitch" with the bottom part being a ball not just a hook, i got it from napa for like $35

any ways i used it to pull out boat around one summer

 

Any small welding shop could fab something in an hour_ probably using a free or used receiver

 

My friend pulls his mud drag rail in a 30 ft trailer. He welded up the hitch and they make an air to electric brake controller that he installed for the electric trailer brakes

http://www.etrailer.com/Brake-Controller/Warner/1300-80.html

 

I may be wrong, But I also believe they do make a converter so you can plug your pigtail on your rig into the trailer lights so you don't have to run additional wires.

 

Just wire it into the tail lights, super easy.
I dont think a GOOD one can be designed, cut, welded and painted in an hour, but maybe I am just slow....

I used 3/8" plate bolted with 3 - 1/2" grade 8 bolts per side, to my RGN ramps, with a 6x2x1/4" wall tube between them, then the receiver tube with gussets on it welded onto the 6x2. A 7 pin RV plug into the tail lights, and all was done. A little more than an hour, but I have pulled a 30k lb trailer off my RGN with it, with a slide in pintle hook, and it never moved. It was also used one time as a lift point for a wrecker truck when I spun a rod bearing and got pulled home. So I think my extra few hours were well worth it myself

Martin