LouNY
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- Joined
- Jul 4, 2015
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- Location
- Greenwich, NY
- Tractor
- Branson 8050, IH 574, Oliver 1550 Diesel Utility (traded in on Branson) NH 8160. Kioti CK2620SECH
On the farm almost all of the equipment is drawbar pulled. It seems to me that it is the main 3 point equipment users are the homeowner, gardener, compact tractor owner.
The main reason we have hitches like the one pictured is that the tractor drawbars are too thick to bolt a trailer ball to,
so the hitch works for the tractors to handle ball or clevis trailer hitches as well as gooseneck trailers.
I have had a few thousand pounds of tongue weight on my hitch pulling a self loading log trailer through fields and wood roads.
Edited; we have limiter chains to prevent the 3 point from lifting too high from the trailer actions
The main reason we have hitches like the one pictured is that the tractor drawbars are too thick to bolt a trailer ball to,
so the hitch works for the tractors to handle ball or clevis trailer hitches as well as gooseneck trailers.
I have had a few thousand pounds of tongue weight on my hitch pulling a self loading log trailer through fields and wood roads.
Edited; we have limiter chains to prevent the 3 point from lifting too high from the trailer actions