Ceriusone
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Have come across an interesting (and seemingly persistant) problem with using some attachments on my Mitsubishi gray market tractor(2501D). I was hoping that someone else might have some experience with this.
My three point hitch does not drop low enough to effectively use items such as a drag harrow and bottom (potato)plow. I also cannot get my box blade down as low as I would like when I tilt it and try to cut deeper on one side, such as ditch digging. The drag harrow uses the 3 pt hitch and then connects to the main frame of the harrow with chain. I will have to modify by adding a lot more chain just to get the harrow flat on the ground! I have studied the hitch and the two lower arms each have only two holes in them. The upper or lifting arms are in pinned to the lowest holes...thus the hitch only lowers to about a foot and a half to two feet from the ground! (I'm sure this is the lower limit of travel because I have used much heavier equipment like brush hogs and disc harrows and that distance is persistant). It seems to me that the only way I can get it to go lower is to somehow drill thru these arms and place holes lower. Why should I have to do this? Any thoughts or ideas on this?
My three point hitch does not drop low enough to effectively use items such as a drag harrow and bottom (potato)plow. I also cannot get my box blade down as low as I would like when I tilt it and try to cut deeper on one side, such as ditch digging. The drag harrow uses the 3 pt hitch and then connects to the main frame of the harrow with chain. I will have to modify by adding a lot more chain just to get the harrow flat on the ground! I have studied the hitch and the two lower arms each have only two holes in them. The upper or lifting arms are in pinned to the lowest holes...thus the hitch only lowers to about a foot and a half to two feet from the ground! (I'm sure this is the lower limit of travel because I have used much heavier equipment like brush hogs and disc harrows and that distance is persistant). It seems to me that the only way I can get it to go lower is to somehow drill thru these arms and place holes lower. Why should I have to do this? Any thoughts or ideas on this?