Pintle

Pintle Hooks, Rings, Eyes, Adaptors and Spare Parts

Pintle Hooks and associated equipment can often be challenging to locate or be out of stock.

The reason is that pintle equipment is made for trucks and rigorously tested at a full load of 2,000,000 cycles.

Therefore, Pintle equipment over 3.5t must be tested on Australian roads; however, many Pintles and ring couplings have not been tested.

Ask your supplier for either a CTA number or proof of testing, as untested products are usually cheap copies.

In other cases, some pintle equipment does not require testing. For example, tow bar attachments gain the rating of the tow bar. Other attachments have no test procedure.