I always found the pintle setup to tow/ride extremely smooth and nice with a load on compared to a 5th wheel or ball. Seems like it gives the load a bit of wiggle room to do its thing. Unloaded they’re like towing a Tanzanian Devel!! I’m a pintle fan too.
The set up you got is a handy one for what you do and by using the setup you got means you don't need to move the saws and what ever else you have on the bed floor. Keep up the great videos
I've never owned a gooseneck and probably never will,we pull equipment with our dump trucks so i grew up using pintle hitches.Also are pickups all have tops on them because of certain materials we haul so a gooseneck wouldn't work for what use are trucks for.Pintle hitch lets you keep your bed space.Pintle hitches turn a lot better.I like your set up.
I notice a lot more pintle hitch trailers in construction, hauling equipment, basically what you do everyday. Gooseneck seems to be more for farming/ hay operations or people that run flatbeds where the bed doesn't get used a lot while the trailer is attached.
I own a 5 ton pintle hitch trailer. Only a 16' deck, with custom made 3/16" diamond plate fenders. I love the trailer. Works really well for my small transport business hauling everything from small machines to cars, trucks, hay bales, bobcats etc. I do in fact have a 5th wheel and gooseneck in the truck and have towed a 30' triple axle gooseneck with kingpin a few times before when I needed a bigger trailer for particular jobs that my pintle trailer was too small for. I do however plan on investing in a 26-28' 14K kingpin gooseneck deck over trailer next year to run alongside my pintle trailer. Mostly just for larger loads and longer items. I've had to rent the bigger trailers when my pintle was too small. I do much prefer how a pintle/bumper pull trailer turns in tighter traffic areas in the city, but I also like how gooseneck trailers pull heavier items more stable. My trucks only a srw F350 so I don't pull anywhere near the weight as you do, but I do like the pintle trailers as well as the goosenecks. I think it boils down to personal preference. Also I hate dealing with lining the 2 5/16" ball of a gooseneck up Perfectly with the trailer too, that's why I'm running a 5th wheel hitch too, whenever I rent the larger 30' tri axle trailer, I always opt to use the kingpin hitch the owner has as it's way easier to hitch it up by yourself, and I feel that it's a more secure connection personally, as the large tractor trucks use them, so the kingpin oughta be incredibly strong. Kingpin and Pintle are what the semis use so if they are tough enough for their uses than they are damn well strong enough for 1 tons - 2 tons to use too.
They both have their uses but pointless are way easier and you can watch the tongue on trlr squat the rear of truck when loading keep up the good videos and doin what you do
bud whatever works for you Is what you see best for your business. everybody does things differently. just keep doing what makes you happy and makes you the dollars.
How much more weight is a pintel good for over 2 5/16 ball? That's the only ? I have. What is the benefit of the pintel? I've used them at work and they just seem "loose" to me.
