draw bar

[Soundguy]

Not all tractors have provision for a swinging drawbar.

Yes.. having a trailer ball on a 3pt drawbar means you may be able to back up, lift hitch and go.. if you are just moving stuff around in your yeard...

You may want to offset some drag equipment to get near a fence.. etc.

Soundguy

 

[Egon]

Some of us the use the drawbar to gain added traction. A practice highly frowned upon!

In other cases it can be convienient to make your own so that specialized tools may be bolted to it.

 

[bigdad]

Schmism,

My dealer threw in a drawbar when I bought my tractor. (Whoopee! I should have pushed for loaded tries.) Anyway, I used it long enough to see that it turned when my trailer was attached. I just welded on four pieces of angle iron as stops against the arms. Works great...except I never use it. I use the frame mounted drawbar. Oh well....


BD

 

[bigdad]

Drawbar angle irons......

 

[RalphVa]

I did mine as an adaptor to use the soil ripper that a friend gave me. It was designed to attach to the back of a JD M.

Main advantages of the drawbar on the 3 ph is to have multiple points, like a fixed ball or balls and the ability to raise and lower it. One disadvantage is if you're pulling a 2 wheel trailer; it can lift the drawbar if it gets off-weighted in the back. If you lift it much, too, you can shift the pull point and run the risk of doing a wheely on your tractor.

Heres a pic of the soil ripper on it.

Ralph

 

[rozett]

I could use a ripper like that. Who makes it?

 

[SteveInMD]

Not all tractors have provision for a swinging drawbar.

Yes.. having a trailer ball on a 3pt drawbar means you may be able to back up, lift hitch and go.. if you are just moving stuff around in your yeard...

You may want to offset some drag equipment to get near a fence.. etc.

Soundguy

My TC33D came with a swinging drawbar. I use it rather than setting up the 3pt drawbar because it's faster to change out equipment.

 

[PineRidge]

so i finnally got around to getting a draw bar for the 3 pt and picked up the premade stablizer dohicky that is suppose to slip over the end of one of the 3pt arms.....

all was good till i went to put the stablizer thingie dodad on and hmmmmmm ive got the delux 3pt arms.... and the widget wont fit over the stinkin arm....

now what?

I would recommend taking the stuff back that won't fit, save your money and try this approach.

 

[kubotabilly]

so i finnally got around to getting a draw bar for the 3 pt and picked up the premade stablizer dohicky that is suppose to slip over the end of one of the 3pt arms.....

all was good till i went to put the stablizer thingie dodad on and hmmmmmm ive got the delux 3pt arms.... and the widget wont fit over the stinkin arm....

now what?

Build yourself one of these.

Bill

 

[PineRidge]

Bill I really like the looks of a 3 point hitch rig like yours. The only problem that I see is that we move a lot of materials from point A to point B on the property using the trailer. When you step on the backside of the trailer the 3 point allows the front to raise and the back of the trailer to hit the ground. God help you is someones foot is under the back of the trailer when that happens, I found that out the hard way.

A receiver mounted on the draw-bar prevents the pain.