Nope. I wouldnt want it any lighter.
I can always take smaller bites, or feather the controls. But nothing is more frustrating than a cheap light blade that refuses to cut whatever material you are trying to work with.
Its not just the blade either, its my 1600# cutter. And I mow ~400+ acres in total per year comprised of small 4-5 acre jobs. So thats alot of turning. Even an inch or two of play at the back of the hog is alot of inertia for the little pins in the stabilizers.
Fact of the matter is....as handy and quick as the telescoping stabilizers are...it is nearly impossible to get all the slop out like with turnbuckles. And the constant hammering of an implement from side to side when turning or working the implement.....continues to wear things out and get worse. Its a snowball effect.
The quick hitch is on the tractor 99% of the time. The ONLY times it comes off is once a year when I put on a 3-bottom plow to plow 3 acres, or during maple syrup season when I put forks on the back for hauling IBC totes. When the quick hitch is on....I want ZERO slop. And I could NEVER attain that with the telescoping stabilizers, and have been meaning to address it for awhile now. The fact that I lost half a stabilizer prompted me to fix it and quit procrastinating.