Saw this wierd looking hitch thing on a KJ this morning.

chetos · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:38 am

Sorry no pics. Wish I had my camera phone on me. Maybe it's no big deal and I am the only person whose LOST. I was walking into Wally World and this KJ had a what looked like a regular hitch (back of KJ) receiver but in addition it had to other receivers on either side of the 'middle receiver'. So instead of one it looked like three.

tommudd · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:17 am

They have those so that you can pull different trailers with different size balls, ie 1 7/8, 2, 2/14 You have all 3 sizes on that one hitch ready to go.

bmg9b · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:18 am

Sounds to me like those things that have 3 different size balls on a single hitch. So, if you want to use a different size you would pull it out, rotate it, and then shove it back in. Is that what you saw?

EDIT: I guess TomMud and I were typing at the same time.

chetos · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 5:43 pm

No. I've seen those. The reciever was where it's supposed to be. Then the other two were located on the sides just to the inside of each tire.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:43 pm

Hmm, wow, you talking about the hole the reciever goes in? Never seen a hitch with 3 of them?

chetos · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:44 pm

Yes! That's what it looked like. Hook up to an RV maybe?? but why from the rear??

Cacher123 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:09 pm

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the other two were located on the sides just to the inside of each tire.

I can't believe those are to haul a trailer. If they are that close to the wheels and you used either one, the trailer center would be to one side of the lane or the other and nevermind what it would do to trying to drive straight. They must be for some other kind of attachment, maybe some type of farm equipment or something.

Just mentioned it to my dad. He says it's possibly for a light motorcycle mount longways across the back so the weight is distributed on 2 mounts and still allows the trailer hitch to be used.

I know! Wheelie bars!!! :shock:

chrisroth1 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:16 pm **Posts:** 69

i have seen a hitch like that also, it only had the ball mount in the center and nothing on either side, I have also worked on a farm for years and never have seen any type of equipment use a hitch like that. My only guess would be for some sort of weight distribution also

05kjrenny · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:44 pm

weight distrabution, i cantspell

KJ_Dave · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:47 pm

The only place that I have seen that is on the farm where I was making hay bales, or backing a trailer into a spot with a wall or something on one side when my tractor is widerr than the trailer.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:03 pm

Ive never seen a WD system like that? Ive seen alot of WD setups too. :wink:

MattyMac1 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:05 pm

They might be used for just moving trailers.Backing them up into diff positions not actually using them on the road...

chefdab · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:24 pm

So does anyone have a picture of something like this? I'm kinda curious.

Jeger · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:32 pm

This is the only thing I could find

http://www.motorcyclecarrier.net/rv_mot ... rrier.html

chetos · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:36 pm

Yep, that's what it looked like. Look at the 2nd pic. with the '3' receivers.

Jeger · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:42 pm

They actually make all kinds of cool stuff, thats a site worth checking out.

Cacher123 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:27 pm

I dunno, I'd be leary of buying anything from a site with that many semantic and spelling errors!

Fishin' Dave · **Joined:** Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:19 pm **Posts:** 18

3 things come to mind.

Dirt bike hauler
Bicycle/cargo rack
Wheel chair carier

rocketjocky · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:44 pm

there is one ther possible reason for the extra hitch points; single wheel trailer. one wheel and two hitches the nice thing is the trailer will never jack knife... even my ex could back it up and that says alot

Saw this wierd looking hitch thing on a KJ this morning.

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