Couple of Harbor Freight QH questions

[TNhobbyfarmer]

My QH was delivered today. In reading through this thread, it appears that many of you guys make changes to your equipment to make everything more QH friendly. It seems that many of the changes require fab work/welding. I do not weld so here's the question I have. Will the adapter make most/all of my implements QH compatible? This is my first QH, and it makes sense that the adapter will be my friend. I would appreciate any comments from those that have used or have an opinion regarding the adapter.

 

[California]

My experience is it works with several but not all implements. Two I can think of have shoulders below where the hook would fit, so I can't get the hook under the pin. Photo below is an example. (that blade was thrown in free with that 30 year old Yanmar). Another example.

And some have structural parts under where the top hook should go, as I noted above it's easy to invert the top hook to secure those.

But overall It's no big deal to take the QH off for those implements it won't fit, luckily ones I use rarely. And it fits everything that I commonly interchange among. In summary, worthwhile because it saves back strain every time its used.

If more of my implements were current generation I expect more of them would be compatible to the QH standard.

Added:
For that blade above I'm considering bolting a 4"x8"x 0.375" chunk of steel into where the 3-point pins are now, with a new pin farther forward on this new plate. If I can fit the new plate precisely to that lower angle iron it won't need welding, so I could return the blade to original if needed.

 

[Fallon]

My QH was delivered today. In reading through this thread, it appears that many of you guys make changes to your equipment to make everything more QH friendly. It seems that many of the changes require fab work/welding. I do not weld so here's the question I have. Will the adapter make most/all of my implements QH compatible? This is my first QH, and it makes sense that the adapter will be my friend. I would appreciate any comments from those that have used or have an opinion regarding the adapter.

I'd wager a local welder could convert almost any implement to be QH compatible for under $100.

My snowblower was to skinny. There really isn't a way to fix that without welding on additional structure. Longer pins might work, but would be really likely to bend.

 

[California]

Minor adaptation: A stack of washers to get the pins out to QH width. This is a small (48") disk.

Works great!
I use this little tractor to finish up the tight spots - especially at the end of orchard rows - where the 8 ft drag disk on my neighbor's big tractor can't maneuver.

 

[Catman8]

My QH was delivered today. In reading through this thread, it appears that many of you guys make changes to your equipment to make everything more QH friendly. It seems that many of the changes require fab work/welding. I do not weld so here's the question I have. Will the adapter make most/all of my implements QH compatible? This is my first QH, and it makes sense that the adapter will be my friend. I would appreciate any comments from those that have used or have an opinion regarding the adapter.

Once you get it hooked up to your your tractor show us some pictures, and if there is an implement that won't hook up, show us a picture and you will get some good ideas from everyone how to make it work, I can't tell you all the great ideas I have found on this forum from pictures. Just like California with something as simple as washers if you don't have a welder, there is always a work around. Enjoy your QH, these should come standard on all tractors.

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

I got the QH to my property where the tractor is. Got it mounted but didn't have too much time to experiment with the implements. I did take the attached pictures.

The third picture is the top link mount on my brush hog. I think it is called a flex mount which allows the implement to follow the contour of the land being cut. I guess when using the QH I will need to flip it back, get the bottom hooks engaged and then get off the tractor in order to flip the flex mount back onto the QH top hook. That shouldn't be much of a problem since I have a hydraulic top link. Sound about right?

The other two pictures are of the top mount area of another implement. I didn't play with it, just took the pictures. Any comments/thoughts about how this will work with the QH? It's a pretty common setup on implements so I expect some of you guys to have experience here.

 

[bcp]

Disassemble and reassemble so the flex link is behind the A-frame of the hitch.



Bruce

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

Disassemble and reassemble so the flex link is behind the A-frame of the hitch.

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Bruce

Thanks Bruce. That makes sense, but I would not have thought of it.

 

[California]

First two pictures - that's where I back up and set the qhitch's top hook upside down over a pin at that implement's mounting point. No big deal if you have replaced the hook's bolts with removable pins as I showed in post # 8 above.

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

First two pictures - that's where I back up and set the qhitch's top hook upside down over a pin at that implement's mounting point. No big deal if you have replaced the hook's bolts with removable pins as I showed in a photo earlier.

Would the top hook on the QH not work from the bottom?