Quick Hitches Going a different route for a quick hitch - weld on euro style hooks

[dbotos]

AgristoreUSA now sells the cat 1 hooks in a kit (88057) or individually (88058):

Cat. 1 Euro Style Quick Hitch Hook Kit

The boxes for the hooks say ama Lo Snodo on them, which is this this facility in Italy:

LO SNODO - AMA

Balls are 1.732" OD [44 mm], 0.905" bore, and 1.375" wide.

Here's what one looks like on a cat 1 implement pin:

 

[LouNY]

Ok here are a few pictures of my hitch;

Unhooked from the implement and holding the toplink with the rope

rope clipped into toplink latch, lower arms unlatched

lift arms and top link disconnected and rolled a couple inches ahead

 

[jonsstihl]

thanks, that rope on the top link is the trick I was missing to make this setup make sense.

 

[PikaPika]

Hello! This makes your EURO hooks better.
You can operate EURO hooks from the cabin. Here both Euro hooks are opened by the black lever under the back window,
For toplink is the blue rope. It is too slick and too hard in winter. I have later a thick rope and spring inside it.
Because the toplink is very heavy, there is the chain and the spring making it easy to operate.

Both hooks open same time

Here Stabilizer bar and lift arm moves spring loaded with the right lever

John Deere and Euro hooks.

And here is my small all hydraulic Kubota and its Euro hooks. See the chain and spring for top link to make it easy to operate. Inside the rope is about 10 inch long spring to keep it straight up and away.

This small lever i is only for these hooks . Most do not need it

Hydraulic stabilizer bars are very well. But mechanical work OK too.

Here are the evolution of my hitches

It is easy to go on now. Younger people can do it. I am over 80 years.
MS


One more Mechanical stabilizer bar operated from the cabin.

 

[WranglerX]

Hello! This makes your EURO hooks better.
You can operate EURO hooks from the cabin. Here both Euro hooks are opened by the black lever under the back window,
For toplink is the blue rope. It is too slick and too hard in winter. I have later a thick rope and spring inside it.
Because the toplink is very heavy, there is the chain and the spring making it easy to operate.
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Both hooks open same time

View attachment 713153

Here Stabilizer bar and lift arm moves spring loaded with the right lever
View attachment 713126
John Deere and Euro hooks.

And here is my small all hydraulic Kubota and its Euro hooks. See the chain and spring for top link to make it easy to operate. Inside the rope is about 10 inch long spring to keep it straight up and away.View attachment 713136This small lever i is only for these hooks . Most do not need itView attachment 713135Hydraulic stabilizer bars are very well. But mechanical work OK too.View attachment 713134
Here are the evolution of my hitches

It is easy to go on now. Younger people can do it. I am over 80 years.
MS


One more Mechanical stabilizer bar operated from the cabin.
View attachment 713149

To much engineering and micky-motion, to easy to get out of whack ... Easier to get off tractor and operate two flip arms on QH and move on....

Take it to next level use solenoids or linear actuators to do hookup with flip of switch from dash....