SCRich
Silver Member
OK this may be a simple question for some but I am really green and the tractor manual mentions nothing about the process to connect rear implements.
How do you hitch up ? It always seems difficult much more than it should be maybe this is the way it is but maybe it's that I am doing something wrong.
I drop, disconnect the top link, bang away at the pins with a 5lb hammer, curse, bang again, curse kick and it usually comes apart. Then when I change from my box blade to rake I got to play with the side links to get the arms the right width to fit the other implement. Put the lower pins in, play with the top link to get it to reach the top anchor then pin that.
Since I am cleaning and grading a lot of land that is soon to be our home I am needing to switch from the box blade to rake several times a day. This weekend I gave up and tried a new way, grapple and rake Saturday then on Sunday I did the bucket (QD by the way) and box blade. I would have liked to rake again after the box blade but by the end of the day I was too tired to fight.
I see a lot of talk about QD rear adapters. I bought one at Harbor Freight on Friday and tried it on Saturday, it did not even fit. I mounted it to the tractor thinking it was simple but the top hook is the wrong size to fit where the top link would go and the lower pin spacing on the bracket was the wrong size.
I think I hate switching implements so much and need to do it so often in one day I would be willing to pay a good price for a QD setup if it really would work. Some of the threads I see about specific adapters seem to show that they all have their own troubles.
Rich
How do you hitch up ? It always seems difficult much more than it should be maybe this is the way it is but maybe it's that I am doing something wrong.
I drop, disconnect the top link, bang away at the pins with a 5lb hammer, curse, bang again, curse kick and it usually comes apart. Then when I change from my box blade to rake I got to play with the side links to get the arms the right width to fit the other implement. Put the lower pins in, play with the top link to get it to reach the top anchor then pin that.
Since I am cleaning and grading a lot of land that is soon to be our home I am needing to switch from the box blade to rake several times a day. This weekend I gave up and tried a new way, grapple and rake Saturday then on Sunday I did the bucket (QD by the way) and box blade. I would have liked to rake again after the box blade but by the end of the day I was too tired to fight.
I see a lot of talk about QD rear adapters. I bought one at Harbor Freight on Friday and tried it on Saturday, it did not even fit. I mounted it to the tractor thinking it was simple but the top hook is the wrong size to fit where the top link would go and the lower pin spacing on the bracket was the wrong size.
I think I hate switching implements so much and need to do it so often in one day I would be willing to pay a good price for a QD setup if it really would work. Some of the threads I see about specific adapters seem to show that they all have their own troubles.
Rich