Quick Hitches How To Lift Really Heavy Stuff with Your 3PH iMatch

[beenthere]

As long as you have the forks on the FEL, just adapt them to the iMatch and forget the chains.

I wouldn't survive anymore without my iMatch. Retrofitting the attachments wasn't a daunting task and once done....you are fit to go.

And for logging, the top hook of the iMatch is perfect for tossing logging tongs on and dragging logs (or picking up those logs of mars1952).

Good idea on posting the video. I should make a 5 minute video of bringing in a pallet of firewood. First drop the ballast box off the iMatch, pick up the forks with the iMatch, back under a pallet of firewood and back it into and set it down in the garage, drive out to set the forks off and back up to the ballast box. All done quickly and without getting off the tractor once. Great when it is below zero F deg and the wind blowing. Bring in a pallet about every 5 days in the coldest part of the winter.

 

[allen in texas]

Hi allen in texas: That is a good point but instead of bridging the imatch I think that it would be easier to hook both ends of the chain to the lower hooks and cinch it up in the middle.
Mars

YEAH!! That's the ticket!

 

[mars1952]

As long as you have the forks on the FEL, just adapt them to the iMatch and forget the chains.

Forks for the 3PH is on my project list.
Mars

 

[JB4310]

Hi jeffinsgf: I love my imatch. Before I bought my imatch switching attachments was a real pain(literately and figuratively). Since I didn't have any non-imatch attachments at the time I didn't have to worry about converting them.

With the imatch I can change from the box blade to the back blade or to the rock rake without getting off the tractor. And I can hook up the bush hog and the tiller without adjusting the side links (they are rigid on the JD4300)

The main flaw that I see in the imatch is that it limits the ability to adjust the implements to the right or left but I plan on modifying mine.
Mars
P.S. 3PH forks are on my list of projects.

Yeah I couldn't live with out my quick hitch, had to do a little modding but well worth it.

Get a HTL and you really got it made, especialy for forks.

I have hooked chains to my Imatch but was a little worried about doing damage.


Here are my forks,

I could use mine 2 different ways on Imatch, one is the way I modded the fork frame with round bar stock, forget the exact sizes but they are standard, and fit tighter than other stock pins or bushings. the other way is with a Frankencontraption I made with some extra loader carriers I had, also with bar stock, this was jus a fooling around project but it does work.
I mostly just use it with the bars on the frame.

JB

 

[mars1952]

Yeah I couldn't live with out my quick hitch, had to do a little modding but well worth it.

Get a HTL and you really got it made, especialy for forks.

I have hooked chains to my Imatch but was a little worried about doing damage.


Here are my forks,

I could use mine 2 different ways on Imatch, one is the way I modded the fork frame with round bar stock, forget the exact sizes but they are standard, and fit tighter than other stock pins or bushings. the other way is with a Frankencontraption I made with some extra loader carriers I had, also with bar stock, this was jus a fooling around project but it does work.
I mostly just use it with the bars on the frame.

JB

Hi JB: That looks pretty cool. You need to install an hydraulic top link to get full use out of the bucket on the 3PH. Next project?
Mars

 

[mars1952]

Great idea, but I'm absolutely shocked that your tractor's loader wouldn't pick that up. My tractor is a little smaller than yours and would laugh at that. Are you sure things are as they're supposed to be with you're hydraulics? I see you upgraded cylinders, but still...

Hi nspec: What type of tractor and FEL?
Mars

 

[beenthere]

Hi nspec: What type of tractor and FEL?
Mars

If it is his B2630, it wouldn't even get the forks pushed under that log.

 

[JB4310]

Hi JB: That looks pretty cool. You need to install an hydraulic top link to get full use out of the bucket on the 3PH. Next project?
Mars

I've got one now, since that pic was taken. The bucket adaptor is kind of a gag but it would be good for needed trunk space, tools etc. not enough range in HTL to use bucket for digging/dumping though.

Wouldn't want to be without HTL now that I have one.

JB