Bolt on Transport reciever hitch

[Captn Roy]

The only reason I can think of for a guy wanting or needing one of these would be if they are in the business of going after or delivering various trucks and use either a tow dolly in conjunction with it or a tow bar hitch mounted to their drive home vehicle.
I wouldn't want to use it for towing a trailer that had a heavy tongue weight nor would I want to use it for towing anything much larger than a 3/4 pickup and even then if it were me I would wrap a safety chain around the unit and the nearest cross-member in addition to the required safety chains or cables connected to the towed vehicle.
Remember this is held in place by friction alone it completely depends on the ability of the bolts biting into the frame.
The guy that has the one I built sometimes uses shim plates between the bolts and the frames to help prevent damaging the paint This in my opinion reduces the holding strength but with a chain wrapped around a cross member and bound tight there are no worries
Good luck build strong be safe

Well Said Frank, the BEAST is not for everyone and should be used or thought of with a great deal of common sense. That said, If the person using this defeats the purpose of the cupped bolts hold on the frame with shims. They could be in for a world of surprises down the road. Your suggestion to safety chain it is logical but they are still playing a game of chance that they shouldn't. You have even put more than enough of those locking bolts into the build design and used the way it was designed to be used has to be a common sense thing. I've seen the frames that could be a problem here but that might be solved by carrying around a few longer bolts. I would think that a bolt that grabs the frame at a bit of an angle would be better than no grab at all. The edges of those bolts are often used on round hardened shafts and do the job fine. The amount of steel, Type of steel, Welds holding the steel in the build could and will certainly hold at a bit of an angle. Still though the safety chain you suggested is a very good idea nevertheless.

Great build, just needs a healthy dose of common sense as with the use of any tool. This is a HD tool for HD use on HD rigs. Nuff said.

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