Two way trailer hitch for my lawn tractor
A standard 5 inch drop hitch was selected and mounted upside down in order to raise the hitch ball height.
A straight wagon hitch tongue was added to move my lawn cars without changing the hitch assembly.
Red highlights the over length thread 1-7/8" ball that was chosen for the added length of the stud.
1-7/8" was chosen for it's ability to move both that sized hitch assemblies and 2" ones.
Not too cool to do that on a road going unit of course because of the slop, but perfectly acceptable for crawling around my property on a lawn mower.
Blue highlights the custom machined flanged steel adapter sleeve necessary to fit the 3/4" stud to a 1" hole in the tongue.
Yellow points to the custom built straight tongue cut out of 3/8" 6061 aluminum barstock on my wood cutting table saw with a carbide blade.The holes were bored on my lathe.
The radius on the end was shaped with a hand file.
The tongue was made long enough to locate it against the hitch so it wouldn't try to rotate when backing up a cart.
Yellow, the bevel on it was hand filed for an exacting fit.
Hitch mounted in receiver on my tractor backed up to a road legal utility trailer with a taller tongue.
Blue, yard cart tongue and lynch pin
Red, pickup truck bumper mount 2" receiver assembly mounted upside down on my machine.
Yellow is the clip angle that got welded to the receiver to add structural integrity to the mount.
The flat tongue is just a couple inches higher than normal, but hasn't proven to be an issue.
The raised ball mount puts it at perfect height to go between a road legal vehicle hitch to the rider with very little adjustment.