AmericanTractorDriver
Bronze Member
Hello,
We are pretty new to tractors, and planted our first garden (pretty decent size) this year. We have permission to use a Kubota M5040, so we recently picked up a used scarifier and have cleaned it up and painted it. I have no idea as to make/model.
Today we wanted to hitch it up to move it after painting. The attachment is a class I hitch, while the tractor is a class II. We purchased some busings at TSC but they were too long to use. Regardless, we seem to have a bigger problem to figure out:
With the scarifier sitting level, we couldn't get the lift arms to line up with the pins. Either the lift arm pin is too close to the frame of the scarifier, or the lift arm is at the wrong angle. I had to tilt the attachment forward, and even then the machine rubbed the lift-arms. Do we just need to build a stand that keeps the attachment tilted forward when not attached to the tractor? Or is something else awry? I believe that when we get the proper busings, the issue will be even worse, as the pin, and therefore also the frame, of the attachment will be 1/8" higher and intefere even worse with the lift-arms. Hopefully the photos below help. Any advise is very much appreciated.
Thanks!
P.S. Yes, it has teeth/blades. The paint hasn't hardened on the frame nor the blades, so we haven't reattached yet. We did buy all new plow bolts and will put the blades back on once the paint hardens.
We are pretty new to tractors, and planted our first garden (pretty decent size) this year. We have permission to use a Kubota M5040, so we recently picked up a used scarifier and have cleaned it up and painted it. I have no idea as to make/model.
Today we wanted to hitch it up to move it after painting. The attachment is a class I hitch, while the tractor is a class II. We purchased some busings at TSC but they were too long to use. Regardless, we seem to have a bigger problem to figure out:
With the scarifier sitting level, we couldn't get the lift arms to line up with the pins. Either the lift arm pin is too close to the frame of the scarifier, or the lift arm is at the wrong angle. I had to tilt the attachment forward, and even then the machine rubbed the lift-arms. Do we just need to build a stand that keeps the attachment tilted forward when not attached to the tractor? Or is something else awry? I believe that when we get the proper busings, the issue will be even worse, as the pin, and therefore also the frame, of the attachment will be 1/8" higher and intefere even worse with the lift-arms. Hopefully the photos below help. Any advise is very much appreciated.
Thanks!
P.S. Yes, it has teeth/blades. The paint hasn't hardened on the frame nor the blades, so we haven't reattached yet. We did buy all new plow bolts and will put the blades back on once the paint hardens.