bmaverick
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- Beloit-WI
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM2610 ■YANMAR GURU■ EXTRAORDINAIRE
My vote is for the Harbor Freight QH. I've had it now for 2 years.Just joining in the latest quick hitch thread I could find, about to put one on the Christmas list. This is for my MF 1723EB and after extensive internet research, here are my findings. Want one with the true CAT 1 pin size that needs no bushings.
Of course the Harbor Freight one exists, but as already mentioned not that great a bargain at this price.
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SpeeCo clone that requires no bushings.
It works excellent.
I even used a 20% off coupon to drop the price of $139 down too.
Look for the Black Friday coupon.
Now to attach items that are not QH acceptable, there are EZ top link add-ons for those attachments to be converted.
Now, I placed my QH adapter on each of the implements. I back up and the top QH hook grabs a hold of it perfectly. No getting off the tractor. These are sold all over Amazon for cheap. You need to know what length you really need. Then these adapters are perfect to make your implements QH usable.
Also for many of these QH brands, the top-hook needs to be offset a bit more. SpeedCo has the better priced one out there. Member @California can tell you how well the SpeedCo works.
If you have some implements that have no CAT-1 pins with locking rings, then a set of those bushings is handy too for converting those implements over.
My neighbor has the Pat's single 3-point QH add-ons for his Ford 1500 with CAT-1. He's not all that impressed with it. These have a loose fit on his machine and wiggle too much. He has to hop off the tractor push them a little upwards and back up slowly hoping they will not droop and miss the connection. There is also a little play side-to-side. The Pat system fits most of the American made brands just fine, those brands made in Asia, like the Japan tractors, those are not ASAE standards, those are JIS standards that are close . . . So you need to know this before ordering Pat's system.
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