Is it just me...

[kneedeep]

Some days changing implements is a royal pain in the *****- other days , it seems to work flawlessly.
After seeing some of the old time implements and what it took to not only attach but just operate, we are in 'modern' times as far as that goes. With all the quick hitches, hydraulics, actuators, computers, GPS etc. farming and tractor use has moved to the next level. Some tractors now use the SSQA so will that every piece of equipment can be modified to work. I enjoy mounting and dismounting my implements but I also don't like to struggle with them. If I have to get my wife to help me, its time to do something different. I personally like the PATS. My brother has a Kubota Quick Hitch and adapted all his equip. to it work with it and loves it.
Different strokes for different folks!! :cool2:

 

[kneedeep]

Some days changing implements is a royal pain in the *****- other days , it seems to work flawlessly.
After seeing some of the old time implements and what it took to not only attach but just operate, we are in 'modern' times as far as that goes. With all the quick hitches, hydraulics, actuators, computers, GPS etc. farming and tractor use has moved to the next level. Some tractors now use the SSQA so will that every piece of equipment can be modified to work. I enjoy mounting and dismounting my implements but I also don't like to struggle with them. If I have to get my wife to help me, its time to do something different. I personally like the PATS. My brother has a Kubota Quick Hitch and adapted all his equip. to work with it and loves it.
Different strokes for different folks!!

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

Yes its a PIA but it gets easier as time goes by, its like anything else the more you do it the better you become at it, I use a four foot long, inch thick piece of rebar to convince things to line up. Word of caution though, if you're married dont use your wife to help you hook it up/guide you back, especially on a 100 degree day with insects biting you, that never works for me, or her :laughing::laughing:

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

The extendable lower lift arm ends on my Kioti are worth their weight in gold. Hooking up implements can still be a PITA, but those extendable ends sure make it easier.

 

[Xfaxman]

Re: Is it just me...No me too!!!

I'm 72 and need to have every implement (except the light weight rear blade) on dollies or castors. Of course, you need a concrete pad or building with concrete floors to place everything. Makes it a whole lot easier.

Ralph

The best improvement I ever did to my place was a concrete floor for the barn. Should have done that from the start. I built dollies for everything, and I tried the quick hitch and Pats. But with the dollies and smooth floor, I really don't need them.

Yep I even have my SSQA attachments on dollies.

An old 2x12.


SSQA to 3 point adapter, with the Omni hitch on it.


More scrap 2x's


SSQA Tilt-Tach


The 3 point hitch, 6' boxblade is now setting on this metal dolly.


Went out and took pictures of it on the dolly.

 

[Grant1]

I do tractor work for a living. Get the Pats Quick hitch system. I have two tractors and both of them have the Pat's hitch system. I can change from boxblade to yorkrake to bushhog and back in less than 10 minutes and the best part is I don't beat up my hands or pinch my fingers

 

[oosik]

My current tractor has extendable lower lift arms and adjustable sway bars. No quick anything. Generally speaking its not too difficult but on some days its just a PITA. A lot has to do with where & how I left the implement when it was last detached. So, since I have no storage bldg with concrete floors - each implement sits on its own pallet or set of wood blocks. It doesn't take long to learn where the tractor must be so an implement can be attached with the least verbal abuse or smashed hands. And believe me - you will learn one way or the other. So far, in 32 years, I've only roughed up my hands once and pinched fingers 2X and that was long,long ago.

 

[RichZ]

The older I get, the harder it is for me to switch 3 point hitch implements. If I see a pull type brush hog at an auction, I'm gonna buy it. The brush hog is the hardest for me to wrestle onto the 3ph. I have 3 tractors, and if I could afford it, I'd have more, just so I could never switch implements, but with haying, I'd need a bunch more tractors, because there are so many implements for haying.

 

[DT86]

I really only have trouble with one of my implements, the 96" box blade. It's not that hooking it up is a problem, it's taking the stupid thing off.

The pins have no head on them and sometimes require a pipe wrench to turn them to remove the linch pin.





If I'd been told that this was possible I wouldn't have bought the thing.

 

[bcp]

I would have replaced those headless pins immediately with a hitch pin of the right size, with a handle. They come in many sizes.

For example:
GRAINGER APPROVED VENDOR Hitch Pin,Std,Stl,Zinc,1x7 3'/'4 L - Hitch Pins - 3HLR5'|'3HLR5 - Grainger Industrial Supply

Bruce