3 pt. tiller hookup... frustrating

[milkman]

I just spent about an hour and a half hooking up my tiller, moving it a dozen feet, unhooking it, then hooking up the box scraper. By then it was too late to do the work I wanted to do. What a waste.

All the while I'm cussing and wondering what in the world I'm missing. It can't be this hard.

then I come here and see other guys having the same problem. feels slightly better.

But:

What's a spud bar?

I don't get how one guy does not have a problem with the arms going in. that's problem #1 with me. Is there some say of holding them out to the width of the tiller/box scraper hitch brackets (of whatever they're called . . .the things I put the ends of my pto arms into)? I try to keep those things as tightened down as possible and don't like loosening and tightening them each time I hook up.

Or do guys put those brackets the same distance apart as the pto arms naturally sit? That seems really close and unstable . . .?

Does anyone have a sequence on how they hook up that works? Do you put the top pto arm on first or last?

How about the PTO drive shaft?

Do you usually have to lengthen and shorten the top arm from hooking-up length to work length?

Seems like a whole lot of fiddle-farting around, just to go from mowing to tilliing to scraping.

Are some of you suggesting I loosen the implement

Got a set of Pats Easy Change and replaced the turnbuckle PITA with telescoping stabilizer links and made life a lot easier. Do a search on Telescoping stabilizer links and you'll see how easy it is to switch from the turnbuckles, cost about 60 bucks for the parts. Here's one link that I found,http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...ng/49403-b7610-3p-stabalizer-replacement.html all you need is the two tubes with the holes and the two bars that slide inside.

 

[chucko]

on my box blade I just removed the pins and faced them to the inside

 

[De La Farmer]

This is an easy fix. Just get it close and start it a bit on the pin. When you're ticked off enough, grab a 3 pound hammer and beat the **** out of it until you get it in. A good amount of shaking it, and cussing will no doubt help reduce frustration. Good luck, welcome to the tractor world!

 

[NSBound]

This is an easy fix. Good luck, welcome to the tractor world!

This place is like going to school with the best teacher in the world! Funny, yet informative, and you enjoy learning!!!

 

[newbury]

So far everybody has it wrong!
The key thing is that it is a 3pt HITCH.
Not an "unhitch".
Do like Lbrown.
After you hitch up one implement when you need to use another implement you get another tractor with the new implement.

Anything else is just a workaround.

 

[columbian]

john thomas:

thanks for the detailed answers.

sorry about that last line. there was more after it, but it disappeared somehow. Don't recall now what it was.

Went out to Sunset Equipment in St Helens, or today to pick up a new spindle for the one on my RCK60x-22BX that went south after a greasing problem. Great shop. Really helpful: yesterday, they got a supplier to send the parts "next day" when 3 other local shops said it was too late. They got my business now. and they're in a beautiful part of the country there.

Sounds like a notched 2x 4 is the answer to my PTO arm problem, possibly along with some quick hitches.

Thanks again for the helpful answers.

 

[columbian]

This is an easy fix. Just get it close and start it a bit on the pin. When you're ticked off enough, grab a 3 pound hammer and beat the **** out of it until you get it in. A good amount of shaking it, and cussing will no doubt help reduce frustration. Good luck, welcome to the tractor world!

Wow! This has been my exact procedure for the last 2 years! I thought I was going to be able to patent it.