My Harbor Freight Quick Hitch

[BearKiller]

Thank you all for pointing me toward the coupons.


If some unforeseen dilemna doesn't alter my plans, I intend to travel the hundred miles to the nearest H-F store Saturday.

Thanks.

 

[Steve C]

Thank you all for pointing me toward the coupons.


If some unforeseen dilemna doesn't alter my plans, I intend to travel the hundred miles to the nearest H-F store Saturday.

Thanks.

Make sure you call first to see if they have what you want, and ask them hold it for you.......

I drove 120 miles round trip to buy my 5 foot box blade that was on clearance for $199 from the tractor supply store in Mt Pleasant Michigan. It had been there all summer. The day I decided to get it, it was gone. I saw the same blade at the Ionia tractor supply store a couple months ealier when I was near there buying my tractor but it was to late to make the drive over there before they closed. I called them and they held it for me to pick up the next day.

 

[BearKiller]

Well, I made the trip to H-F today; it was cyclone-windy all day, so I probably wouldn't have accomplished much around home anyway.

They were having one of their sidewalk sales and the first thing I saw when I walked across the parking lot was a slightly scratched 97214 quik-hitch.

I negotiated a deal and got the quik-hitch and one of those floor-model benders missing the dies for less money than the quik-hitch on sale with the 20%-off coupon, so I did pretty good today.

Thanks for everyone's help; I managed to print off several coupons from that site and use them today.

 

[Steve C]

Well, I made the trip to H-F today; it was cyclone-windy all day, so I probably wouldn't have accomplished much around home anyway.

They were having one of their sidewalk sales and the first thing I saw when I walked across the parking lot was a slightly scratched 97214 quik-hitch.

I negotiated a deal and got the quik-hitch and one of those floor-model benders missing the dies for less money than the quik-hitch on sale with the 20%-off coupon, so I did pretty good today.

Thanks for everyone's help; I managed to print off several coupons from that site and use them today.

Scratches on a tractor implement? Oh my how are you going to get the wax to stick?

Where are you located? Perhaps it was the one I returned before learning about how to use it with non complient attachmentgs.

It seems you ahd a good day.....

 

[BearKiller]

Where are you located?

South-central Kentucky in the welfare capitol of the world, 12-miles South of the gate capitol of the world.

 

[Hardacrefarm]

What's the reasoning in the first place for the two different width sizes when both are classified as "Category 1"?...Any ideas?

 

[California]

The narrow one conforms to the 'standard', which some implements conform to. The wide one is for the other half of all the implements out there in the real world.

 

[dex3361]

The narrow one conforms to the 'standard', which some implements conform to. The wide one is for the other half of all the implements out there in the real world.

Or you could have my luck and have implements that conform to neither standard and have to be modified to fit. Thankfully only only 1 time.

 

[iamhistory]

Ok fellas......need some input here. I got a HF quick hitch a few days ago to hook up and transition between my back blade and spreader for winter road maint.

The daggone qh doesn't fit. I haven't checked my KK box blade or Bush hog squealer yet, but my Bush hog 6ft rear blade hitch points meet the outsides of the j hooks on the qh almost perfectly, thus it won't hitch up. My Tractor supply spreader fits, but of course the hitch points are pretty narrow leaving me needing longer pins to meet up with the qh j hooks.

I studied the problem for a while and of course can remedy the spreader issue. I'm not sure if I can do anything about the rear blade fit. Both implements need the top link adapter for the qh so there's that issue also.
So thhe main reason I got the hitch in the first place isn't panning out. Anyone else have this issue and got the quick hitch to work? Or should I just take the thing back?

I am not really interested in doing hours of mods to it to get it to work b/c I don't really have the tools to get into that. I will deal with the pain in the butt implement switches instead and take the hitch back.

Any advice would be really appreciated. I really want this system to work.

Dex.......judging by your post, I think I'm in the same boat you found yourself in. What mods did you do?

 

[dex3361]

Ok fellas......need some input here.
Any advice would be really appreciated. I really want this system to work.

Dex.......judging by your post, I think I'm in the same boat you found yourself in. What mods did you do?

I had to cut and narrow the width on some things that were cat. 1/2 and I had to change the position of the top link attachment on a few others. Fortunately I have a welder and tools to cut metal.