Cat 1 quick hitch

[gabrichter]

I was looking at adding a cat 1 quick hitch. I have looked at Northern tool and Iowa farm. Now I imagine the 100 - 120.00 units are China product whereas the 250.00 units are USA made. Any one out there have either and could give me insite on pros/cons of which one you are using

 

[beeforty]

I bought a China unit from Harbor Freight and seems to be okay. My Ford 1200 is older, built before these became popular and I have a wide blade that I wanted to be able to take off ocasionally. I do notice a difference in moving the blade back 2" on my small tractor, I had to fab up a hook bracket for my blade since it wasn't meant to hooked up to the top, plus I had to add bushings to the pins on my blade to fit the quick hitch.

 

[Barnone]

If you search the attachment forum with "quick hitch" you will get a lot of hits.
I have the HF QH and it works just fine for me.

 

[KBarLLeon]

I just received the Quick Hitch from Harbor Freight this morning. My top adapter should arrive tomorrow. I will soon find out how it works...Hopefully in the next week. I have a
2240 tractor that I will be using with it.

 

[70stang]

I have the Habor Freight QH on my JD 2720, works great, fits allmy attachments.

Paul

 

[Jamming]

Chinese crap is not always safe, be careful. No offense just seen this stuff fail always at the wrong time.

 

[BX25Bota4me]

I have the HF quick hitch. The northern tool version is the same thing as the HF. HF is cheaper. You will eventually have to modify something to get it to work. Some implements will attach with no problem and some will not. I have 11 attachments for my BX25 and most have been modified to work. The adjustable top link is a pain. If you have to adjust it is by definition not quick hitch. I took my top hook off and moved it out away from the quick hitch and welded it solid. Then modified each individual attachment so it all lines up. It works very well. I paid $69 for my quick hitch from HF. Sure it's from china but it works very well for me now that my attachments are modified to work. The problem with quick hitches is that the implement manufactures do not build to a standard hook up configuration. Sure you can buy all the same name brand to work with a quick hitch from there shop, but you will pay dearly for that. I buy all mine used for pennies on the dollar and spend an hour to modify with $10 worth of metal. But then again I like to weld and do that sort of thing. Each to his own. So far I have had no issues with the QH being able to hold up. There's not that much to it to give problems. Good luck.

 

[timster2]

Chinese crap is not always safe, be careful. No offense just seen this stuff fail always at the wrong time.

I haven't seen a post of someone breaking a HF quick hitch. Many complaints of quick hitches in general not being as quick as expected implements need to be modified to fit sometimes etc. I have two of them and they work just fine. If anyone has broken one I'd like to see pictures so I can modify or reinforce where needed.

 

[KennyG]

I haven't seen a post of someone breaking a HF quick hitch.

And this is in spite of the number of people who have had to "bend" them or grind on them to get the spacing back to specs. Not to mention all the welding of accessories we've seen.

I have a HF hitch and it works fine, but I did have to spend about an hour grinding the hook out to the standard size and modifying the hook pins so it will clear all standard implements. It's not real high quality but I can't imagine anyone breaking it.