Preferred method to pull trailer behind tractor?

[WinterDeere]

I've never had a boat and hopefully never will.

From age 6, I knew my place was on the water, and specifically salt water. There's no other place I am as happy and at ease.

Then I married a woman from western PA, and somehow ended up moving an additional hour from the water, each decade. A cunning stunt, or a...?

 

[Duds13]

From age 6, I knew my place was on the water, and specifically salt water. There's no other place I am as happy and at ease.

Then I married a woman from western PA, and somehow ended up moving an additional hour from the water, each decade. A cunning stunt, or a...?

 

[Highlandr]

I have a 5x8 trailer and this got me thinking, I'll probably just get this & put a ball on it.View attachment 5709791

In my opinion those things are just an accident waiting to happen, but lots get sold.

When we bought this property on of these was chained to a tree (along with a 2-wheel wheelbarrow). Short tongue, so I got one of those 3PH cross-drawbars. Full of water the aerator probably weighs 500 lbs. Even with the lower links all the way down the aerator would push them up on even the slightest decline. Umm... nope!

Utility trailer is pulled with a ball mounted on the straight/center drawbar.

 

[Torvy]

I pull mine with my SxS. Same hitch I use on my truck.

I can use the drawbar, but the SXS can pull anything i need to pull on my place, the truck can pull anything otr.

 

[jmc]

I've never had a boat and hopefully never will.

The closest I can get to that example would be pulling the water buffalo with less than a full tank. And if I screw that up, I deserve whatever happens.

Another situation like "the boat full of water" is a dump trailer behind a 3PH, as the load slides down.