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Location: Leominster
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Tow bar
Fixed or detachable tow bar for towing horse box. Which is best.1955 SWB Series 1 86 inch
1960 SWB Series 2 88 inch
2009 Discovery 3 HSE Bournville Pearl
7th Mar 2020 6:41 pm
Sea Raider
Member Since: 01 Nov 2016
Location: None
Posts: 4450
Fixed every time
7th Mar 2020 6:49 pm
markagj
Member Since: 03 Dec 2015
Location: Wrexham
Posts: 185
Fixed for me too!
These are good reliable towbars, I had four years good use out of the first one but, didn’t get time to remove it before somebody came to view my old car and wanted it left on, so had to get another for my new car🤨
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Witter-Fixed-To...2749.l2649Discovery 4 HSE SDV6
Land Rover series 3 2.5 Petrol
7th Mar 2020 10:08 pm
riverblanche
Member Since: 31 Aug 2010
Location: retford'ish
Posts: 2227
Hi,
If you Tow every week Fixed
But
If you only two every other month either
Member Since: 05 Mar 2018
Location: ox3 8pp
Posts: 31
tow bar
no contest, take a chance with a removable tow bar, or if you think a lot of the horse or horses as I do with mine fit a fixed tow bar.
9th Mar 2020 7:01 pm
James W
Member Since: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Riyadh, KSA
Posts: 3079
Despite mass hysteria, if you're willing to remove the detachable one when not in use and keep it, and the receiver it goes into, clean and maintained, then it's fine. The exception to this is if you have a second hand disco where someone may have had a detachable fitted long term (managing to avoid theft) that corroded the receiver and removed it before you bought it.
If you can't be arsed with that, and want to leave it in, get a fixed. Nothing really between the price of the two anyway.D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
2018 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography - Gone to someone with less sense and more time to enjoy it
2016 Toyota Hilux Invincible - Liberating experience
I tow a 2 ton caravan at least once a month throughout the year.
And tow close to the max towing weigh, with a trailer with a Fordson Major on 1/2 a dozen times a year.
Also make sure you have good tyre's on for the heavy towing as horses are not light.
Be safe & go fixed.
Regards
Ray
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9th Mar 2020 7:17 pm
Discoed
Member Since: 16 Jun 2010
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 1020
It occurred to me today when fitting a fixed tow bar that you could use the socket mounted element (of a whitter tow bar) without the side bracing bars. The socket element is fixed in with a sturdy pin that is locked once wound in from above - if you have fitted one you will know.
Its a hefty cast lump (that must be as strong as the LR removable item) that can then be removed when not needed but fixed securely when needed.
I have twice seen the fixed bar fitted but with no bracing bars.
24th Apr 2020 9:14 pm
M3bobby
Member Since: 21 May 2018
Location: Sleaford, LINCS.
Posts: 857
I think if you just fit that section you will end up with the same situation as the detachable tow bar. The only difference I see when reading the instructions is that the spring loaded bar is operated by an M8 bolt rather than the lock knob of the detachable. Without the braces, I’d imagine this tow bar will vibrate ever so slightly (with no load) and ware the sling loaded bolt hole and the receptacle. Then your in the same position as the detachable.012MY RRS 5.0 Supercharged Autobiography (Current)
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now that is interesting. so if I got one of them and just used it as a removable tow bar could I put a jaw on it so that I can tow the odd trailer on site. infrequent use and always removed after use. it would never go on the road like that
29th Apr 2020 6:29 am
nigethecat
Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
Location: Marnoch
Posts: 4247
I know Ivan was selling a detachable hitch adapter with a 2 inch socket, if you got that you could change out whatever towing attachment you needed... simply pull the pin, slide out and install whatever you needed...I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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