B3030 and L403 chain hooks

[cheesehead]

Glad to help as I'm almost as green as you are. I discovered the difference while reading the EZ-Hitch post in the attachments forum on TBN. What you'll see in the picture is the bottom of an EZ-Hitch mounted on a horizontal drawbar that goes between the two3-point hitch bottom links. The top of the EZ-Hitch attaches to the top link of the three point hitch. Our swinging drawbar is the bar at the bottom that extends from the axle of the tractor. Our swing drawbars do not swing side to side as I'm told they did on early models of tractors, but the terminology is still the same as it was then. I hope that helps. Have you decided on a chain hook convention? Could you post pictures when you're done?

 

[flusher]

Here's the chain hook setup on my B7510HST/LA302 FEL. The dealer welded them on as a goodwill freebie (see attachment).

The hooks all came from AW Direct.

AW Direct

The big one in the center is a Gunnebo-Johnson weld-on anchor hook from AWD ($42).

The two outside hooks are called towing grab hooks also from AWD ($3.50 ea)

Towing grab hook

 

[rswyan]

When the dealer welded on my chain hooks he first welded on a piece of 3/8" or 1/2" plate (4" or so square) onto my bucket and then welded the hooks to that. He also placed the hooks (2) directly in front of the curl cylinders - said it would be stronger/less prone to damage that way.

I've managed to bend the upper lip of the bucket by skidding out a rather large log with chains attached to the bucket hooks. My next addition will be a piece of 2" x 3" x 1/4" angle across the entire top edge of the bucket.

 

[flusher]

My dealer also welded reinforcement onto the top lip of the bucket before welding the hooks. You can see this in the attachment to my previous post.

So far I have'nt bent the bucket. But the heaviest thing I've lifted so far that was directly attached to the hooks is a 300-400 steel bathtub that was lying in the weeds along my North fenceline. Looks like it was used to water animals years ago when my 10 acres was used for grazing.