HF Quick Hitch and Brush Cutter

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savaytse66

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2010 BX25
I have an EA 48" rotary brush cutter that I tried to hook up using my new Harbor Freight quick hitch (Haul Master branded). The quick hitch actually worked really well out of the box to connect to my EA tiller. The tiller has a fixed top pin. The rotary cutter, however, has the adjustable, pivoting top pin. When I raise the 3-point hitch, the top hook catches the pin, but as I raise it more, the "fork" pivots upward until it eventually just disengages from the hook. My two bottom pins are in the location shown in the picture below, but there is a 2nd set of holes if I wanted to drop them a little lower. The top hook on the QH is in its lowest position for the tiller, but I tried it in both the low and high position with similar results.

The other thing I tried is right after catching the top pin with the hook, I shortened the top link, hoping that the angle of the hook would make a difference. But as I shortened the top link, I had similar results as I did with raising the hitch: the arm would pivot and disengage.

Any thoughts?



 
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I could not find the thread but there was someone who posted a diagram that showed you can reverse the swivel linkage so the "swing" is done behind where you hook up.

Hope this works: Basically (if I remember correctly) you swap the "A" hole and "B" hole - the color of the arms are labeled. I'm sure this was not explain too well... Hopefully someone can post the diagram... I made a comment about "first I've heard of doing that" but the search feature sucks on TBN

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Ah ha! I remember that thread. I even "remembered" that diagram while trying to hook things up this weekend, but I clearly remembered incorrectly. Thanks for the reminder. I'll give that a try.
 
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savaytse66 said:
Ah ha! I remember that thread. I even "remembered" that diagram while trying to hook things up this weekend, but I clearly remembered incorrectly. Thanks for the reminder. I'll give that a try.
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BCP posted that diagram in a QH thead I started, also in some other QH threads. It was also in the manual for my cutter. It works.
 
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