Hay wagon qucik hitch...............

[CumminsLuke]

I need a quick hitch of some sort to mount to my Kubota M9580 tractor to hook up to a pair of hay wagons I hook together and use to haul round hay bales out of the field to where I store them. I load the wagons with the 9580, then hook it back to the wagons, pull them to the storage area, unhook the wagons, unload the wagons, rehook the wagons and start all over again. My two and a half year old son also rides with me and I don't want to have to get him and me in and out of the tractor a thousand times in the coarse of the day. I found a nice factory made unit here............................

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Foresight Services, Home Of The StaFast Hitch


But they are high priced and I am cheap. I have a brother who is an excellent welder. Have you guys got any ideas for me?

 

[blueone]

I read some of his Blog [Quick Hitch] and this sound like a great system, I'm not a farmer but wish I was. Looks like he made this from his own trials, failures. and experience, you can't beat a man at his own game. I think It's great you have your son out with you when working. AWESOME!!

 

[rockinmywaypa]

I don't have a picture but this is what I built.I went to TSC and got a cheap snap hitch, the kind with a rope attached and one jaw swings open when you pull the rope release. I think at that time they were around 30 bucks but are probably a bit more nowadays. I then took a chunk of half by five inch steel and using a torch to heat it I bent it into a circle about 30 inches across, it was more egg shape than round. I then put pins on each side for the lift arms to fit on and welded up a mount at the top for the top link of the 3ph. With the hitch bolted on the bottem it made it easy to back into the draw pin and latch and then pull away or pull the rope to release the wagon where you want to leave it. The leading wagon should have some kind of spacer under it to lift it up out of the grass so you can see the pin better but with this system I can draw in bales all day and only get off the tractor seat to go in for lunch, It's as cheap as anything you can do too. I'll add that if I'm going out on the road with a wagon loaded I always use the regular drawbar in case the jaws happen to pop open even though they never have.

 

[Barry Bowen]

Maybe you should not have your son at that age in the tractor with you, then you would not mind getting in and out.

 

[rambler]

I don't have a picture but this is what I built.I went to TSC and got a cheap snap hitch, the kind with a rope attached and one jaw swings open when you pull the rope release. I think at that time they were around 30 bucks but are probably a bit more nowadays.

Would you have a brand name on that? My uncle put them on a corn picker & tractor we shared decades ago. He took them again when he & dad stopped picking together.

Haven't seen them for sale in 20 years. I suppose as wagons got bigger, and liability got harder, they stopped making them????

--->Paul

 

[Duffster]

Would you have a brand name on that? My uncle put them on a corn picker & tractor we shared decades ago. He took them again when he & dad stopped picking together.

Haven't seen them for sale in 20 years. I suppose as wagons got bigger, and liability got harder, they stopped making them????

--->Paul

Deere still has them the last I new.

Our custom harvesting guy has them on brand new self propelled choppers.

You are talking about these right?

Maybe you should not have your son at that age in the tractor with you, then you would not mind getting in and out.

Really?

Another year and he will be old enough to hook the wagons up.

 

[jayste]

I've also seen guys who will "spring load" their wagon tongue so it won't drop to the ground. This can be done with a leaf spring. Assuming we are talking about true wagons here with running gears. Sorry, the pic below doesn't show the spring. I forgot that this one has a tension spring that mounts to the ring you see at the bed. I'll have to look for the one that shows the leaf spring.

 

[CumminsLuke]

Maybe you should not have your son at that age in the tractor with you, then you would not mind getting in and out.

I have a cab tractor with doors that lock. Maybe I am wrong, but I feel that he is very safe with me inside the tractor? I feel safer when he is inside the tractor with me than when he and his mother are going down the highway in their Jeep Commander with all the dangerous drivers and idiots out on the highways these days, but they still have to go places. My son loves tractors and farming. I have this tractor just because of him, so he can ride safely. I won't let him ride on the open station tractors. Maybe I am a bad father, but I sure try to be a good one?

 

[CumminsLuke]

This is exactly what I need. Where can I can one?

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...44133338-anyone-else-use-these-p1010070rs.jpg

 

[rockinmywaypa]

that's a picture of the thing I used. You should be able to find one at any farm implement dealer. I just raised or lowered the 3 point hitch to snap onto the drawpin and away ya go.