Harbor Freight Quick Hitch Discontinued?

[California]

It was discontinued last year.....

Well maybe. Today 19 of 21 stores in California's Central Valley - Red Bluff to Visalia, they're 300 miles apart - show In Stock plus 3 stores Limited Stock.

HF can't be losing money at $130. It was half that when they first sold them.

But I won't be surprised if they re-label it then price the 'new' one at double today's price.

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

I don't have a 3 point QH, but it seems since day 1 there are, have been many complaints about what it takes to make them useable on many or all attachments.. Are they any better now ?? ?? No worse ?? ??

 

[bcp]

The problem isn't so much the quick hitch as older implements that weren't built to modern quick hitch standards for compatibility.

Bruce

 

[69 SS]

had my HF QH since 2015, no problems unless you count operator errors. And yes I bought a bunch of the cat 1 to cat 3 adapters and one of Ken's Bolt on Hooks adapters and the top linkage adapter from Ag South. And I run everything from a 1954 JD P 198 Bush and Bog Harrow,1969 Hardee T 52 LT rotary cutter Pop bought these new and I still have all the owners operator manuals on these,since then I have bought Taylor Way 410 tandem disc's,
9913 Scarifier, Sunshine brand 16 disc tandem discs, had to work on this to make QH adaptable, and L P 1572 blade, Terra Force 062 Tiller, couple of TSC Country Line implements, some other stuff I can't remember right now. And all of them work with my
HF QH, from the old to the new. Best money I've spent cause when you get older and can't muscle the $hit around like you used to, work smarter, not harder. Good luck to all on your projects.

 

[Will S]

Stores in my area still have them at the "clearance" price. I've been using one of them for about 5 years, and it works fine with QH-compatible implements; the older ones may need to be tweaked.

I replaced the bolts and nuts that hold the hook in place, with hitch pins, so I can quickly raise or lower the hook, for the one or two implements that don't work without repositioning the hook.

 

[California]

I don't have a 3 point QH, but it seems since day 1 there are, have been many complaints about what it takes to make them useable on many or all attachments.. Are they any better now ?? ?? No worse ?? ??

The HF QH listing specifies

27-3/16 In. Clearance​

This is the open distance between its lower hooks. Measure your implements to see if they will fit on it. You can shim the implement's lower pins (within reason) using washers, if needed to get to this width. If your implements are non-standard lower width, forget it.

The QH upper hook can be adjusted to fit near anything but replace the fixed bolts there, with hitch pins so you can adjust the hook up/down. And Speeco sells a $20 replacement upper hook with its holes offset so the hook sticks out a little, to avoid interference there.


It's a mystery whether

Clearance​

means Closeout, or that word just triggers something in HF's listing software. The Closeout notice has been a part of the QH listing for years.