markhdg@gmail.com
You might want to get in contact with Mark Hodge at the above email address. I believe he is building telescoping stabilizers again for sale and does very nice work.
I had enough of fighting with those stupid turn buckles every time I wanted to change, from my ballast weight to the back blade and others.
I spent the money and got a Land Pride quick hitch.
Looked at the Habor Frieght one and watched a few Youtubes on them.
Yup there cheap one bent to ruin when he got his tractor stuck in mud. Every one had the top link hook modified.
I put the quick hitch on fixed that stupid turn buckle and a 10 to 20 minute job of changeing equipment is like maybe 5 minutes if you fiddle around.
No more prying Lifting and jerking equipment to get it to line up.
Even came with bushings to change to cat 3 pins.
Instead of removing the bushings for each change I am buying cat 3 pins and just useing the bushings on the welded pins.
I also had a day when the snow and ice was gone and rotated my rear tires.
Went from a scary (pleats in the seat scary) 55 inch outside to outside to 63 inches outside to outside.
Almost feels like a real tractor now, can run over a frozen ball of snow now with the loader at 4 feet and not be on 3 wheels.
Your blade hookup could still be improved by modifying the top tower and building a stand for the blade to rest on. You could then pick it up from the tractor seat and only have to dismount to retract the stand.
Better yet, rest it on a long round of wood and not have to dismount at all.
I run my rear tires as wide as I can and still use the necessary attachments.
Cool. I must have misunderstood the pics. Looks like your top link pin is not projected forward of the tower hardware. So you can back up to the blade and hook all three at the same time, lift and drive away?