3-Point Hitch How do I find balls for my lower 3 point quick attach arms DK 5010?

[r0bg]

I had the quick attach arms option added to my DK 5010 and having a devilish time trying to find the balls to use with them. I may not even be calling them by the right name.

Asked the dealer after I ordered the tractor and he said I'd be able to pick them up locally. Been by two different TSC's today and no luck. The Texas Gulf Coast is not Kioti country, my dealer is 120 miles away and no one down here I've run into has even heard of Kioti tractors, let alone be able to help me with my 3 point hitch. Google searches and searches here have yielded nothing for me.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[k0ua]

I had the quick attach arms option added to my DK 5010 and having a devilish time trying to find the balls to use with them. I may not even be calling them by the right name.

Asked the dealer after I ordered the tractor and he said I'd be able to pick them up locally. Been by two different TSC's today and no luck. The Texas Gulf Coast is not Kioti country, my dealer is 120 miles away and no one down here I've run into has even heard of Kioti tractors, let alone be able to help me with my 3 point hitch. Google searches and searches here have yielded nothing for me.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I don't understand what you are asking. Photo's? The balls for the lower links are integral to the lower links. I just really don't understand what you are referring to.

 

[olPete]

Is this the setup you have?
Sorry about the sideways picture. All the tractors I drive are like this except John Deeres. They have the 'steelcap system' or captive ball.
Too far away to be any real help, unfortunately... keep trying dealers and tractor service places, someone will have em. It pays to know what size you need,
Cat I have a 1 inch hole or 25.4mm
Cat II like this one are 28.7mm or 1 1/8

 

[k0ua]

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Is this the setup you have?

I thought most guys just used a bushing? Why do they need to be balls?

 

[olPete]

I thought most guys just used a bushing? Why do they need to be balls?

The lower arms have concave surfaces in there that take a spherical ball. And just a small flat at the bottom that lets grime out, I assume? It's like having a quickhitch, without the quickhitch... although you still need to pin the top link. Bit closer to the tractor and can change the width to suit anything you have.

 

[k0ua]

The lower arms have concave surfaces in there that take a spherical ball. And just a small flat at the bottom that lets grime out, I assume? It's like having a quickhitch, without the quickhitch... although you still need to pin the top link. Bit closer to the tractor and can change the width to suit anything you have.

I haven't seen that before...

 

[olPete]

I haven't seen that before...

Really quite a good system! Probably a quickhitch (like you guys all have) is faster and easier for blades etc, but all my 3pt hitch stuff has pto shafts or hoses or something to hook up. Disc mowers are a right royal PITA to line up to those captive ball systems hence this way of doing it. Then your PTO shafts are still the right length etc etc
The farm up the road I work part time on, has cat 3 balls on every implement so the NH, Claas and the Puma all just hook on and go! And he has all the toys up there.

 

[murph1]

I haven't seen that before...

I ain't either but it looks kinda neat.

 

[olPete]

I don't miss trying to kick those oldschool arms onto mower and plough headstocks, it is quite a good system so long as you don't let the locking lug seize up, to the OP I offer the advice to keep the drain holes clear and squirting a bit of lube in there never hurt. I use aerosol chain lube on anything that I can't grease.

 

[r0bg]

Yes that's correct. That's the setup I have but I cannot find the balls anywhere around here, the dealer directed me to get them locally, and I cannot find them.

Thanks for all the responses, do you know where I can find them?