Cattle Trailer Latch

PN14

Guys,

I have a tractor puller cattle trailer 16ft x 8ft. Pushing on a bit now but has newish steel floor so hope to keep for a while yet. Question is anyone know where to get a latch to keep the ramp closed. Its a old style threaded bar with eye handle that threads in or out to open / close. I've tried loads of places ivor williams dealers, indespension etc but no luck.

The bar is about 16mm and has a heavy thread (i.e. normal threaded bar has a much finer thread). The father parked it too tight to the wall and bent the existing bar so can't reuse it.

Any ideas on where to go to replace. All help appreciated

Nekarsulm

Last place I saw a coarse thread like that was on the big bolts the ESB use to bolt the cross bar to the top of an ESB pole. Galvanised as well. Usually a square nut. When they change the old poles, they just leave the old bolt and nut in the top end of the pole. Get a coded welder to modify it, if you aren't confident of your own welding abilities.

onyerbikepat

The proper term is 'Swing Bolt'. I bought some recently for work for a different application. I got mIne from TED in Dublin but they had to order from a Company in Germany (Ganter).

http://www.ganter-griff.com/?cmd=normblatt&guid=56ebd096-aca4-48cc-9c17-28902e439735&LCID=2057&pageID=products

http://www.berger-tools.co.uk/series.asp?SeriesID=368

Do you need to get the nut with handle aswell?
Is the nut like a round ball or is an ordinary hex with a welded handle.

Rovi

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, I'd say you're looking for a 5/8" ACME threaded fitting.
ACME is a big square coarse thread, unlike the finer v-shaped metric/unc/unf thread.
Is it something like this?:


McHugh & Cramp agents should be able to source them, see page 522 of their Trailer catalogue:
http://mchc.ie/uploads/catalogues/Trailer_2012.pdf

PN14

Thats exactly the one Rovi thanks.