3PT Lower Connection Spread / Quick Hitch

[Artisan]

Gents does anyone know of an off the shelf bolt on adaptor
to spread the lower connections on my Gearmore AS Series tiller
to the span of a quick hitch? I guess I can weld on some ears and
do whats necessary but....thought I would ask. Here is what I have.

 

[bcp]

How about some long-threaded hitch pins bolted to both sides with 4 nuts, and sticking in or out to fit the hitch? Left and right sides don't have to exactly match. One might stay like it is and the other side has an external pin.

Long Draw Pin, Category 1 - 0265197 | Tractor Supply Company

Extra Long Forge Draw Pin, Category 1 - 0265121 | Tractor Supply Company

Bruce

 

[Artisan]

They would have to stick out at least 6", maybe a hair better and
the leverage from such a long pin would bend stuff I thunk.

The QH is 28.5" Center to Center.

The OE Brackets are like 22.25" Outside to Outside.

I am working an idea to buy 2 more of the brackets and making
the backside clamps.

 

[Artisan]

Darn it, how to make those brackets.

I guess I could get a piece of .25" x 1.5" angle and weld ears on it...

Sure would be nice ot find something close and make this a bolt on mod!

 

[bcp]

My second thought was working from some old cultivator clamps:

Today's Tractors :: View topic - Old cultivator clamps, etc......

http://www.partspring.com/catalog/product/view/id/643335

Third thought is heavy wall square/rectangle tube with one side cut off, bolted to your tiller square bar with square U-bolts.

View attachment 275656

Bruce

 

[Artisan]

Who has a brake and can whoop me out two of these babies?

(I have not read your latest bcp, on a mission here...)

 

[Artisan]

I am looking at that 2nd link now....

My second thought was working from some old cultivator clamps:

Today's Tractors :: View topic - Old cultivator clamps, etc......

New Holland 420-SERIES Section 005 CULTIVATOR CLAMPS, 420-SERIES - 13-249,13-269,13-270,13-271

Third thought is heavy wall square/rectangle tube with one side cut off, bolted to your tiller square bar with square U-bolts.

View attachment 275656

Bruce

 

[Artisan]

The 3rd thought isn't a bad idea...

I await a price on the OE brackets and maybe
something close to the clamp I need will pop up.

That would look as close to store bought as I could get I think.

 

[PhysAssist]

The 3rd thought isn't a bad idea...

I await a price on the OE brackets and maybe
something close to the clamp I need will pop up.

That would look as close to store bought as I could get I think.

Or cut the square tubing along one corner, and carefully using a torch, bend the 2 sides adjacent to the cut out to serve as ears.

 

[boggen]

i say U bolt. and a some extra nuts and a washer that fits the U bolt.



tightening up the nuts. and it will cause the 2 washers to bend right around the square tubing on tiller.

or skip the extra washer and 4 nuts, and just go for a generic U bolt, with a washer, and 2 nuts. ((suggest adding 2 more nuts. so the nuts do not spin off / back out on you, threads shear off))

if the washers or U bolt bends as you tighten the nuts, keep on tightening till you think you got them tighten enough they will not bounce loose. (may need to get off tractor a couple times to check) and tighten up. on the first time tiller is used with Q/A after that should be trouble free.

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edit ok re-looking back at your pictures, the edit picture of mine most likely would not work, but just a generic U bolt by itself with a washer and a nut on each leg. and just keep tightening the U bolt and let the U bolt bend how ever it wants to bend.

have done it a few times on some pipe gates that look kinda like a P. and on a few other things. it holds, that is all i care about. bending of bolts well just will have to live with it.

 

[bcp]

Boggen's idea of a bent u-bolt stirred up this idea.

Maybe a v-bolt instead of a v-plate? For more contact area if needed to prevent slippage, a short piece of angle could be welded inside the V.

v-bolts

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[Artisan]

So Gearmore actually had a left and a right receiver just like pictured
and they were only 20 bux each so I ordered them. I can just leave
the OE brackets on and set the two new ones on center where I want.
ALSO, I can use one OE and move a new one to offset the tiller.

The brackets that are needed to hold the new ones on as I drew in CAD,
well I asked a friend and he said No Problem! They own a Piranha Iron
worker so I am dialed!

 

[bcp]

Good result. The factory parts will look "factory" and so will the clamping brackets.

I wonder if the tiller was made for an early BX or other SCUT that had less arm spread.

Post photos when done.

Bruce

 

[PhysAssist]

i say U bolt. and a some extra nuts and a washer that fits the U bolt.

View attachment 275713

tightening up the nuts. and it will cause the 2 washers to bend right around the square tubing on tiller.

or skip the extra washer and 4 nuts, and just go for a generic U bolt, with a washer, and 2 nuts. ((suggest adding 2 more nuts. so the nuts do not spin off / back out on you, threads shear off))

if the washers or U bolt bends as you tighten the nuts, keep on tightening till you think you got them tighten enough they will not bounce loose. (may need to get off tractor a couple times to check) and tighten up. on the first time tiller is used with Q/A after that should be trouble free.

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edit ok re-looking back at your pictures, the edit picture of mine most likely would not work, but just a generic U bolt by itself with a washer and a nut on each leg. and just keep tightening the U bolt and let the U bolt bend how ever it wants to bend.

have done it a few times on some pipe gates that look kinda like a P. and on a few other things. it holds, that is all i care about. bending of bolts well just will have to live with it.

You could even "customize" the U-bolt [and/or the straight flat stock piece that comes with it] a little bit to make it fit the square tubing on the tiller more snug-ly, by putting the curved section over a similarly shaped /angled piece of metal- [an anvil, bench vise, or some such] heating it up and banging an angle into it.

I've been disassembling an old disc [it had been left on on our property when we moved there] in order to use the pieces as additional weight in our ballast box, and the u-bolts on the disc unit were similarly "customized" to fit the bar.

Oh Never mind- I just saw your last post- updated since I started this...