btw, Being able to leave whichever attachment on each tractor and hopping from seat to seat is almost cheating.
LOL.... must be pretty nice to have a tractor for each implement, and just jump from seat to seat
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LOL.... must be pretty nice to have a tractor for each implement, and just jump from seat to seat
beowulf
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A few years ago I bought Pat's Quick Hitch - but soon found out I would have to modify things to make it work out for me. Nothing against the quick hitch, but I decided it just was not worth the other changes I would need to make, given the relatively few times I changed rear implements. So, I still have those, tried once and otherwise never used. . . will sell for $100 plus shipping (they are heavy).
RaydaKub
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I hooked up my mower a few times and had to use a crowbar to get it hooked. My blade, sprayer, weight bar, and trailer hitch are easy. But the mower put me over the top. And I have 3 different sizes of implements so a regular quick hitch wouldn't help much. Pat's isn't perfect, but its still a step up.
I can totally understand that.
I just wish the industry would work with each other and make everything the same dimensions with 3pt hitches. This day an age its nonsense that this is so difficult across all the brands.
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I can see that. In my opinion the market for quick hitches came about when tractor manufacturers cheapened their 3pt hitch design. And especially when they cheapened it up using turnbuckles and chains for stabilizers. Things like quick hitches help overcome the cheap 3pt designs, but it's also un to think aout what the manufacturers could do with a three point if they really cared.
We've got one old John Deere tractor that has a nice 3pt. It has telescoping extendable lower arms on ball pivots with square tubular stabilizers on both arms. These both use captive spring loaded speed-lock pins to latch the telescoping adjustment. Fast and no tools required.
The 2 vertical side links that connect the lower implement arms to the upper 3pt lift arms have an internal gear drive with a built-in crank handle to easily adjust the side-to-side leveling. No more wrenches and wrist-twisting required.
The top link is a stout cast iron piece that also has a simple gear-crank for adjusting the top link length.
So it is possible to have a 3pt that is stronger, that fits every implement, & does it quickly & simply without straining the operator. But probably cost the manufacturer several times as much to build as today's common 3pts that have cheap bent arms, turnbuckle & chain stabilizers, loose hitch & lynch pins everywhere, and undersize barrel thread-adjustable top & side links.
But best of all, anyone with metal working tools could make up an improved 3pt for their tractor. And incorporate a quick hitch too.
rscotty
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I agree with what you said. But i dont understand why a tractor company(s) would cheap out in this area of a tractor. The main reason we buy tractors is for the use of the 3 point hitches and its abilities to change to different implements.
