3PH draw bar

cokeman · Jan 5, 2005

I picked this up from my dealer today. It's off a Curtis trailer hitch mount sand spreader. I want to use the TPH to adjust the height of my tow behind sweeper. It should work fine for that.

Dean

cokeman · Jan 5, 2005

Another picture

dliston · Jan 5, 2005

Can I ask what the $$ damage was? I'm in the market for something like that, too.

Doug

cokeman · Jan 5, 2005

I paid $200.00 Canadian which should be about $140.00 or so US. Thats not exactly cheap but It's the only one I could find. My Kubota dealer sells Curtis equipment also. That's who made it.

Dean

theboman · Jan 5, 2005

You can find these all day long on Ebay for about $100. I got mine shipped to me for $99 a couple years ago.

StopherJ · Jan 5, 2005

I bought a similar 3ph receiver from Bad River (www.badriverinc.com).

cokeman · Jan 6, 2005

I've seen them on Ebay also. To be honest I like the Bad River unit as well. The problem is I live on the wrong side of the border to shop American web sites. It's very frustrating.
By the time I convert the dollar, pay shipping, duties, and the brokerage fee it becomes cost prohibitive. UPS and FedEx charge a brokerage fee to put the package through customs on your behalf. I'm stuck buying locally or from Canadian web sites but the selection of products is limited.

Dean

PineRidge · Jan 6, 2005

While I do agree that your draw bar gizmo is a neat item there is a less expensive way to get the job done.

We use our tractor to move a trailer around our lot quite a bit and it seemed like the draw-bar was always in the way at other times when we really didn't need it.

Our solution was to weld a receiver tube to a draw-bar. The draw-bar and the hitch assembly can be removed when we don't need them. When we need to pull a trailer we insert a ball attachment, see picture.

It has worked well for us so far and you can bounce on the back of the trailer without the draw-bar moving up or down.

TC-40D SS web pictures click here

Indydirtfarmer · Jan 6, 2005

I have one very simular, only with another ball on the very top of the hitch, for moving my gooseneck trailer. VERY handy to have. You can back up to a trailer, raise the hitch, and move the trailer without cranking up the tongue jack. Looks like a nice piece of equipment you bought yourself! John

cokeman · Jan 6, 2005

Mike: That's a nice solution if you don't need to raise the trailer tonque. I want to be able to adjust my sweeper height with the 3PH so I went this route. Also my BX doesn't have a drawbar that sticks out between the 3PH. It has a plate with a 3/4 inch hole for a pin or ball. It's too low to hook up my landscspe trailer and my garden tractor attachments were really close to the lower links. I needed to raise the the pivot point and move it back from the 3PH .

Dean

cokeman · Jan 6, 2005

Thanks John. Another added benefit of the 2x2 inch opening is that there is a lot accessories to fit it such as carry alls and tool boxes. I think I will get a lot of use out of it.

Dean

Soundguy · Jan 6, 2005

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I agree. My neighbor took a standard drawbar, and then bought a reese tounge receiver from kmart .. seems like it was 20 bucks or so. Bolted that onthe drawbar, and then added a scrap bar that was upright. The scrap bar had a clevis welded to the top of it, and accepted a pin for the toplink to hook into.

Soundguy

cokeman · Jan 6, 2005

If I could weld (which I can't) and I had a welder (which I don't) I would make my own too! Come to think of it, if I was an engineer and I had a machine shop I would make my own tractor too.

Dean

rdln · Jan 6, 2005

Dont let these guys get to you, they mean well but sometimes they can be...well, mean.

cokeman · Jan 6, 2005

Thanks. I'm over it now. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

PineRidge · Jan 6, 2005

Both I and Soundguy only meant to share ideas not criticize your hitch. Sharing ideas is good, no?

cokeman · Jan 6, 2005

Hi Mike. Of course sharing ideas is good. I appreciate your response and the picture you posted. I just wish I could fabricate some of this stuff myself. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Dean

sherpa · Jan 6, 2005

PineRidge,
What are the 2 lynch pins just above the rear PTO in your pic for? I am guessing just a place to carry them?
Sherpa

RalphVa · Jan 7, 2005

I bolted a receiver to my Gravely sulky. Could do the same thing to the 3 pt drawbar that I just bought from TSC. TSC also has the U-bolt kits and the receivers. Think a lot cheaper than $200.

I spent $70 recently for the drawbar, bolts and metal bars to mount the drawbar to my 3 pt. I've it painted now and about ready to put back together. So, I can take pics and post it. It'll be a drawbar with metal framing to connect also to the top link. On mine, I've an additional hole to run another top link back to the old 2" soil ripper, to raise and lower the back end of it.

Ralph

PineRidge · Jan 7, 2005

Sherpa seems every time that we needed a lynch pin there were none around because we had just set the originals down in the quicksand. So we took two links of chain and bolted each separate link to our PTO guard. Place an open lynch pin in each chain link, fold the pin over and lock it in place. Did I say that I don't lose lynch pins anymore. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif