3-Point Hitch on loader arms PICS

[Knight]

I used a QA plate that I use for my forks and put 3-point attachments to speed things up.
If I have the backhoe on at a job and I need to clean up with bucket and york rake. It's just a flip of the QA arms. I don't need to remove the backhoe
Another big advantage is down force. I can give my rake or box scraper that extra unmff! It's much like an iron hand rake, sometimes you need to push down to get that extra clump of grass or bump.
Another advantage, is that I can shake the rake and clean stuck grass off.
Mostly I just float it but I can control up and down much better in the front.

Here Is a pic of my garden and I needed to remove the old sod stuck in the center of the rows.

The last pic is I need to rake out the gutters....

 

[rdbrumfield]

nice, I was thinking of taking my back blade and converting it to a easy hitch up front. Like you say, down pressure is a biggee. Leaving the angle on the backblade so I can sidecast will be nice and by just rolling the blade back or forward will give me slope for ditching.

 

[Willl]

Excellent job Knight, I've been wanting to do that to my front receiver thingy.

Got any close ups of the lower 2 hitch pin set ups ?

 

[Knight]

First choice location for the rake is the front, because of the more forceful down force control. I suppose if I had to do a large area, I might put it on the back. Put just to be able to push it down when needed, like if a clump of grass would lift the rake on the rear of the machine, not so on the front.
I didn't know how good it work until I tried it.
I was only trying to speed the job up when I had my backhoe on at a job near my house.
I put the machine on the trailer when I was done with the hoe, drove home and switched the hoe to the rake and trailered it back to the job.
This process took a lot of time.
Now I switch back and forth with the rake and the bucket quickly, leaving the backhoe on the machine. I even switch between the box scraper and rake.
It just another option I like to have.

Notice how the grapple stays on the machine, This saves time too.

Oh, and the top link is a upper control arm off a the independent suspension from a 65 Shelby Cobra, I always grab something from the scrap pile.

 

[jinman]

I bought an adapter from my NH dealer that works very well to convert a 3PH balespear to the FEL. I also put my boxblade on just to show it could be done. My next project for he adapter is to make it fit my dirtscoop so I can use it as a treespade and shallow trencher. If the lower link arms were made so you could adjust width, it would be a big help too. The ideal would be to have the lower links be ball hitches like the 3PH lower arms and adjustable in width.

 

[Willl]

Thanks Knight, very clever yet simple design.

from a 65 Shelby Cobra

Awesome, performance parts.

 

[Knight]

I bought an adapter from my NH dealer that works very well to convert a 3PH balespear to the FEL. I also put my boxblade on just to show it could be done. My next project for he adapter is to make it fit my dirtscoop so I can use it as a treespade and shallow trencher. If the lower link arms were made so you could adjust width, it would be a big help too. The ideal would be to have the lower links be ball hitches like the 3PH lower arms and adjustable in width.

Doesn't the scraper work good in the front?

 

[Willl]

adjustable in width.

Exactly, I was hoping Knights setup was adjustable so I could steal his idea.

My plans require replacing the entire lower beam on my front receiver thingy. Something I was trying to avoid.

 

[Knight]

All my attachments are the same width, so I never even thought of making the width adjustable. Is there different width attachments? Not counting PTO attachments.
Anything can be done.

I can tell you this: what ever attachment is on this plate in the front is tight and does not need to be turn buckled like the rear arms.

 

[Willl]

Is there different width attachments?

If you don't go from one category to another it should stay the same width.