A hitch apparatus has a tongue member with a weight hearing surface and anoppositefree surface, and defining a bushing hole extending, substantially vertically.A bushinghas a cylindrical portion defining a drawpin hole with an outside diameterequal to aninside diameter of the hushing hole and a flange extending outward from oneend of thecylindrical portion. The flange has a tongue surface adjacent to thecylindrical portion ofthe bushing, and an opposite wearing surface. The cylindrical portion of thebushinaextends into the bushing hole such that the tongue surface of the flange bearsagainst theweight bearin,2, surface of the tongue member, and the bushing has a RockwellScalehardness greater than a Rockwell Scale hardness of the tongue member.Differentbushings may define a variety of drawpin hole diameters to suit differentdrawpins.
