Does anyone (Engineers) try what they design?

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Home Depot, Lowes, or any decent hardware store. Looks like this. The barrel looking piece acts as a nut and is threaded. It would unscrew from the lower end, then it will slide up the smooth shaft to make a gap to put it on your hitch. Once it's on, screw it back together and tighten it up and drop your chain hooks through it. They are only a couple of bucks apiece.

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Got these and they indeed are making life easier with the hooks and chains.
 

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DrGrant, I'm interested to hear your thoughts on what could be better engineered on the Gen 3. I'm friends with a couple engineers. Both are functionally OCD. I mean that in a good way Sir. I find that the mind of an engineer is a fundamentally different. Highly motivated, inventive and critical. I wonder if you haven't already redesigned something on your truck?
I appreciate this comment, but I really bought a Raptor because they are already overbuilt. I have a hobby farm, little one just 5 acres, and I use that to satisfy my need to solve problems and redesign things. If you haven’t ever worked a farm I highly recommend it. There are far more complex problems in farming than I could have imagined before I put on some coveralls and jumped in a tractor. I know that this didn’t really answer your question about what I would change in the Raptor, but I would not pretend to know more about automotive engineering than my brothers and sisters at Ford performance…and I would imagine that they would say the same about my field.
 
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