Ball hitches off road

Discuss. It'll be on my M100 which will have rotational movement, and pivot movement regardless, but not vertical movement, as it would with the pintle. I'm afraid of going up something with the trailer and hear POP.
No receiver, only a 2" ball on the Jeep. I'm hoping to buy a hacked lunette and use it.
Thanks

 

There's no way of using the pintle hitch on it my Jeep. PTO winch is in the way and no way of mounting a receiver.

 

I've been over some pretty rough trails towing the trailer behind the Jeep.
I was concerned at first, but I've had no problems. The trailer just follows along.
I would not do a pintle hook on mine; I can hear the noise they make from the guys towing their trailers behind me......too much noise/racket on or off street/trails for me.
I did replace my coupler with a new 2" type, got rid of the original screw type coupler that uses the 1-7/8" ball.

 

Check out our own Posimoto's trailer "coupler" here: http://www.jpmagazine.com/eventcoverage/154_0901_jeep_cjs_on_the_rubicon/index.html.
Almost at the end of the article. Not sure if he did a write up on it in the forums.

 

Hehe, that's what I was basing my original ideas off of. I was going to consider a U joint for the center, one of the bigger semi ones. No, not that big, think smaller.
But, his is based off of a hitch as well. See the ball will go up or down a small bit, but, if you do the ball with a joint in it to allow it to go up the tongue would always look like this \ / if you can invision that.

 

You're not encountering problems when going up or down hills such as something looking like \____/ ?

 

I popped mine on the tow bar like that. Oops.
I'm looking into the bull dog for my application

 

I <had> a receiver front and rear. The front is legit for moving the big trailer around, but when I was towing it with the Jeep I bent my receiver mount off the drawbar about 25*. That marks the end. I'm not going to weld one on the drawbar either on the top, as the drum spools there.

 

I swear this is going to drive me insane...
I like this hitch though!
http://www.etrailer.com/pc-COUPLER~2B2.htm

 

Here's a couple of pics. It's impossible to get this hitch to bind at any angle.

http://community.webshots.com/album/573242497KEcxKc

 

Sammy, have a look at this page. it's in Oz but if there is anything that interests you i could get it over to you http://www.campertrailers.org/couplings.htm

 

Omg i'm moving to Oz

 

That looks awesome!!! I'd like to see a write-up detailing how to build that. (not that I really need it, with a non-built Jeep and no trailer)

 

Enjoy
http://www.earlycj5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49203

 

There's somemore pics here: http://good-times.webshots.com/album/561337968FsBssD
I made the hitch from a D27 front hub and spindle. The studs for the locking hub are used to mount it to the trailer tongue. To see how it works go here:
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/563265126QcXLwK