3-Point Hitch How Much Sway?

[Obed]

My boxblade sways 3 or for inches. The play helps prevent breaking something if you hit a rock or root.

Fine tuning the top link is the most effective way of getting the most work out of the BB. I normally lower the 3PH all the way down when using the BB. Thus, the BB floats on the ground behind the tractor so running the front wheels into a hole or on a hump does not change the angle of the BB. I don't need to adjust the toplink because of humps or dips unter the front wheels. Floating the BB on the ground takes care of those humps and dips.

Obed

 

[jenkinsph]

My boxblade sways 3 or for inches. The play helps prevent breaking something if you hit a rock or root.

Fine tuning the top link is the most effective way of getting the most work out of the BB. I normally lower the 3PH all the way down when using the BB. Thus, the BB floats on the ground behind the tractor so running the front wheels into a hole or on a hump does not change the angle of the BB. I don't need to adjust the toplink because of humps or dips unter the front wheels. Floating the BB on the ground takes care of those humps and dips.

Obed

The OP has a small 1026R, 2 inches amounts to alot of play on this tractor.

 

[bradrich18]

I tightened the turnbuckles up to take some of the slack out of the sway. They're pretty tight, but I still have some sway. Although it's not as bad as it was when I first hooked it up. Most of what I'm going to be using the box blade for is on a hillside in one form or another - whether it be in my yard or on an access road. My main concern is that I break one of the arms while backing up a bumpy hill (I don't have any weights on the front end yet, so I have to back up them). I don't know how hard they are to break, and I don't want to push it too hard.

 

[AKfish]

The lower lift arms are pretty hard to break (even on a 1026R). Much easier to bend/break the sway linkage or the vertical shaft between the rockshaft arms and the lower lift arms.

That happens most often when backing up into a berm of dirt or snow, for example.

AKfish