Quick Hitches Where to buy cat I and cat ll quick hitch?

[sixdogs]

I am 60 and getting too old to horse around implements and want or need both a cat l and cat ll quick hitch to cover my things.
For cat ll, I would use behind a 75hp JD5520 4wd that I pull an 8ft chisel plow with. I add 1500 lbs of weight so it really would get used hard. I'm thinking I need a JD "heavy duty"--as opposed to JD "economy" JD or comperable hitch? Need the wisdom of the board here.

For the cat l hitch it would go behind a 40hp Kubota L4300 or smaller tractor and would be used with lighter duty things like a mower or rock rake or maybe 6ft tiller. What should I look at here?

I can look at auctions and have always had good luck wth JD but want to hear what you guys think since I know very little about these things. I would rather pay a little more than have problems later.
Thank you in advance.

 

[kennyd]

John Deere make's the iMatch QH in both CAT 1 and 2 versions. On the lower end of the spectrum, so does Horrible Freight.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I would look at Land Pride to start with. If you want it to be really easy though, check out the Delta hitch. Both are costly.

 

[chris28]

hey i have found both Cat 1 And at tsc looked pretty heavy duty to me they are cheaper than Jd quick Hitches

 

[greg_g]

I had a Harbor Freight QuickHitch several years ago. It was called a Cat I/II: Cat I toplink holes, Cat II lower lift hooks. Word of advice though, measure the lower lift pin spacing on all the implement you intend to pick up with it. Take measurements on the Quick Hitch. Compare the two. This is important because of the fixed width design of the QH. If the implement pins aren't spaced to match the QH, you're outa luck. It's also important to get the floating toplink option with a QH. From my perspective, they should be standard equipment in the first place.

Not all my implements would fit, so I eventually sold my QH and replaced it with a Cat II Pat's Easy Change system and a hydraulic toplink. Worked so well, I bought a Cat I PEC system for my other tractor. Unfortunately that one has no rear remotes, so the toplink is still a conventional.

//greg//

 

[klink]

sixdogs
I'm 62, and I understand your age problem. If you want to be happy in the end results. Just go buy the JD QHs and consider yourself a wise man. Then refab all your attachments to fit the JD QHs. You will never be sorry you did. When I bought my tractor, the dealer tried to get me to buy the JD QH. I said [ "I don't need that thing" ] Since then I went back to dealer and bought 2 of them. One of the best product buys I ever made. That's My story - Its whatever makes the tractor owner happy.

 

[sixdogs]

I had a Harbor Freight QuickHitch several years ago. It was called a Cat I/II: Cat I toplink holes, Cat II lower lift hooks. Word of advice though, measure the lower lift pin spacing on all the implement you intend to pick up with it. Take measurements on the Quick Hitch. Compare the two. This is important because of the fixed width design of the QH. If the implement pins aren't spaced to match the QH, you're outa luck. It's also important to get the floating toplink option with a QH. From my perspective, they should be standard equipment in the first place.

//greg//

What is a 'floating toplink option" and why does it matter?/

 

[MtnViewRanch]

What is a 'floating toplink option" and why does it matter?/

If the top link location (height) is not the same on all of your implements, then you will need the floating top link option. For what I would call proper fit, all of your implements should have the same fixed measurements so that a quick hitch can attach solidly to them. The floating top link connection lets you have variable top link heights and still work.

This is how I understand it to be, I do not have a quick hitch, so I have no first hand knowledge.

 

[greg_g]

This is how I understand it to be, .

Close enough. There are diagrams in this PDF to help illustrate your description: http://www.landpride.com/ari/attach/lp/public/manuals/320-003p.pdf

//greg//

 

[wwalkersd]

Word of advice though, measure the lower lift pin spacing on all the implement you intend to pick up with it. Take measurements on the Quick Hitch. Compare the two...

And make sure you measure every which way you can. I measured the pin spacing of all my implements, which matched up with the spacing on the HF quick-hitch, so I bought it. It turns out that some of my implements have two parallel steel plates, and the pin goes between them through holes in the plates, like the unit in this picture:

Works fine with a lift arm (better than fixed pins, actually), but the HF quick hitch wouldn't fit between the plates far enough to reach the pins.

Another implement had fixed pins, but had a sleeve for a scarifier mounted close enough behind one of 'em that the QH wouldn't fit, again.

In the end, not a single one of my existing implements would fit the HF QH without modification. The iMatch hitch might be different, but it sure doesn't look like it to me.