tow points

[AKMark]

ok, maybe I was a little too brief in my answer. The reciever hitch is 2" wide and the space between the snatch block and wall of the reciever hitch is only hundredths of an inch (ok, maybe a bit more but bear with me). The load is held with the 5/8" of steel but with very little leverage. Now with a strap in the middle there is really no telling if you really push the strap where the most force is, but eventually if you push it the pin will bend and that bend is going to go to the middle giving 1" of leverage. Might not sound like much, but if you compare it to the less then 1/16" originally planned it is a whole bunch and a design for disaster. I have no personal proof of this but I have bent 3/4" tow hooks pulling vehicles out of the mud.

It's good info. I still like hitch pins. I used to use an A model John Deere to pull folks out of the mud pit near our house. I pulled off several bumpers, bent a few frames, even broke a logging chain that was in fairly good shape. I did manage to remove a class 3 hitch from a Suburban. We were using the hitch pin, and it didn't bend. The hitch came off first. I know because it was my hitch pin. That Suburban had to be lifted by a loader then pulled with the A. That was a bad day. I remember lifting the front tires (narrow front) almost two feet off the ground trying to do that one. Scary.