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I also must be an idiot coz I didn't know about the whole tow ball thing either until I joined here just after buying the patrol.......... Not everyone is clued up on the different types of stresses that are involved in different materials in different applications.
It's all about educating people or re-education for some.
Oh and no, I have never done any sort of recovery using a towball.....