B3200 adjustable link for 3 point hitch

[jeff9366]

Here is a photo of factory turnbuckles and more robust Stabilworks mechs for Kubota B3200/B3300SU.

Kubota turnbuckles are three pounds or a bit more; Stabilworks fourteen pounds.

 

[Baby Grand]

On the Stabilworks product, I only see incremental adjustments (the pins). For some implements, I don't like to have any right & left slop, and this means tightening the threads on the lift arm stabilizer until the implemented is solidly locked in. Is this possible for the Stabilworks product? Looks like the adjustments are at least an inch apart, and this would translate to a fair amount of slop at the back end of a 4-5' implement.

I had the same reaction when I first saw them, but I believe the iner & outer holes are not drilled at the same spacing and this works like a vernier (or a dividing head on a lathe) to give you very small increments of adjustment. While you can't always sock things up tight the same way as you can with turnbuckles, I've never had a need to do so. Even so, I can almost always get most of the slop out of the hitch by leaning on the implement and pinning the next pair of holes that come into alignment. This is the case with our Grand L, which comes with telescoping stabilizers as part of the package. After 7 years of tilling, snow plowing, box blading, chipping, brush hogging, twitching logs, subsoiling, I just haven't needed to hitch anything up really tight. I'm almost of the opinion that a little slop in the hitch may be a good thing - but I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise if given a good enough explanation as to why.

Just to be a little perverse, you could always ask Mark to add a turnbuckle feature to the end of one of the links. Then you could sock it up really snug if you felt the need ...

 

[JEMelby]

... I just haven't needed to hitch anything up really tight. I'm almost of the opinion that a little slop in the hitch may be a good thing - but I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise if given a good enough explanation as to why.....

I absolutly agree that a little give is generally acceptable. In fact, the only application I have where I need the absolutly solid lock up is a trencher. It tends to drift and track right and left badly if there's even a hint of slop, and I end up with an awful looking zig-zaggy trench that the pipe can barely be bent into. There's enough flex in the paddle so that if I hit a small rock, it will scoot around the right or left, and the speeds are slow enough that I don't risk damage if I encounter something big enough to stop the tractor.

I suppose there are a couple other applications where precise control of the implement placement is critical, but again, I agree with you - a little slop is a good thing.

 

[Baby Grand]

I absolutly agree that a little give is generally acceptable. In fact, the only application I have where I need the absolutly solid lock up is a trencher. It tends to drift and track right and left badly if there's even a hint of slop, and I end up with an awful looking zig-zaggy trench that the pipe can barely be bent into. There's enough flex in the paddle so that if I hit a small rock, it will scoot around the right or left, and the speeds are slow enough that I don't risk damage if I encounter something big enough to stop the tractor.

I suppose there are a couple other applications where precise control of the implement placement is critical, but again, I agree with you - a little slop is a good thing.

Sounds like you have a definite need for a tightly hitched implement with the trencher. One way to achieve that might be to add a clevis or shackle on the inside of both stabilizers so that you could connect them to each other with a turnbuckle to take out that last bit of slack. Would depend on avoiding contact with the PTO shaft, of course.

 

[Kioti Tom]

I hated the turnbuckle/chain stabilizer links on my Kioti Ds4510. I could tighten the
check nut as tight as I could and in less than 30 minutes, I would have a gap of at
least 1/4 to 1/2 inch between the nut and the turnbuckle. Sooooo, :lightbulb::scratchchin:

I got the stabilizers off a Boomer 50 and adapted it using bushings/washers and bolts to
fit it to the Kioti. works great. Will post a pic tomorrow. Wife has mine at the son's.