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Detachable towbar to ball and pin hitch

Apologies if this is a stupid question but I'm not understanding how best to fit a ball and pin hitch, when I currently have the removeable ball hitch?

I can't see what the ball and pin hitch would attach to, unless some extra bracketry is required?

I need the pin hitch for towing an old bowser off road. Thanks in advance for someone shedding the light!
  
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The fixed towbar has the standard two bolt holes that permit fitting various traditional hitches. There is also a Land Rover hitch available for the Austrailian and USofA markets that fits into same slot as the removable ball. It has a 2" square hole to accept the many overseas hitches.
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Ok thank you, so I'm right in thinking I can't get from my removeable hitch pictured here:

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to a standard ball and pin hitch with the two bolt holes:

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then obviously will need to find a ball and pin hitch that fits that, maybe something like this:

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but with a pin, if it exists? Feels like it all might get a bit rickety....!
  
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I use the 2" square plug-in attachment as it is easy to fit in place of the removable ball. Into it goes a vertical square plate with three heights of pairs of holes. Just a case of finding one of those on Internet. I also can plug in a demountable winch, or a bike rack.
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Great understood. The alternative I guess would be to get the Witter kit or similar:

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Which again would allow for normal fitment of a standard hitch. Appreciate the input, thank you!
  
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