Trailer Hitch
03-15-2019, 02:12 PM
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The actual hitch, or the ballmount? Really have to be pretty rough to bend the hitch.
03-15-2019, 06:51 PM
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I am Calling BS on this, 2 posts, no picture, just trying to make Ford look bad with a weak hitch to come up when it is googled 
03-18-2019, 07:37 AM
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Welcome to the site.
A photo would be great.
A photo would be great.
03-19-2019, 05:04 AM
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500# alone did not bend the hitch. If it truly bent, then the hitch ball had a lot of help.
03-19-2019, 06:17 AM
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I'm wondering of the authenticity of the thread as well. Can't see the "hitch" bending, the "ballmount", possibly. Just giving the benefit of the doubt, some people call the ballmount, the hitch.
03-19-2019, 09:37 PM
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Sub'd for the pictures that will never come! LOL
Back probably 20+ years ago, my father and I were trying to pull a LARGE branch (probably as big around as most trees themselves) out of one of our trees that had broke off, but got stuck in a "V" branch stopping it from falling all the way to the ground. At the time he drove an '89 (IIRC) 2wd GMC Suburban. I climbed the tree and put one end of a chain around the branch, the other end tied to the ball mount in the standard 2" receiver of the Suburban. Dad backing up then flooring it forward probably a good 10-15 times, the branch moving a little bit each time until it finally fell. Each time getting the rear wheel probably a good 3 feet in the air every time he jerked it. That hitch / receiver / ball mount / frame of the truck, everything, were all still perfectly straight after we finally jerked that branch out of the tree, If that old truck could take that kind of ABUSE, this guy's brand new truck with only 3500 lbs ever on it, did NOT suffer any damage like he says it did!
Back probably 20+ years ago, my father and I were trying to pull a LARGE branch (probably as big around as most trees themselves) out of one of our trees that had broke off, but got stuck in a "V" branch stopping it from falling all the way to the ground. At the time he drove an '89 (IIRC) 2wd GMC Suburban. I climbed the tree and put one end of a chain around the branch, the other end tied to the ball mount in the standard 2" receiver of the Suburban. Dad backing up then flooring it forward probably a good 10-15 times, the branch moving a little bit each time until it finally fell. Each time getting the rear wheel probably a good 3 feet in the air every time he jerked it. That hitch / receiver / ball mount / frame of the truck, everything, were all still perfectly straight after we finally jerked that branch out of the tree, If that old truck could take that kind of ABUSE, this guy's brand new truck with only 3500 lbs ever on it, did NOT suffer any damage like he says it did!