Past's Easy Change vs. Kubota Quick Hitch on Kubota M4 with Cat 2

[JCoastie]

@Blue Mule
Strange that you find disconnecting difficult. I wonder if the install was done just right.
To ensure the angle was correct, when I installed mine, I put a broomstick between the easy hitch ends to make sure things were square, then tightened everything up and made sure the broomstick moved freely.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I just put Pat's system on my NH Workmaster. I find it difficult to get them even and lined up properly on the 3-pt arms. And this, in turn, makes it hard to disconnect my box blade when I want to because the Pat's won't release and just fall away from the implement pins. I love the concept of Pat's. Like somebody above me said, the top link isn't the issue on hooking up implements. The two lower links are the issue. Pat's seems perfect for solving this. And in theory Pat's will work on ANY implement unlike traditional quick hitches. But if I can't get mine to line up right and work properly soon I may send them back for a refund.

So, you need something like these.

 

[CobyRupert]

I’ve used the Pat’s. The bolts they supplied were soft metal and often bent with heavier Class 2 equipment. This made taking bolts out really difficult. Had to take it to a machine shop to remove. Started using a stronger grade bolt.
....but then I wondered why bolts are even needed? Without bolts, Pat’s is able to swivel, side to side on the arm, like the ball on the 3 point hitch arm that it eliminates. This movement is necessary when raising and lowering equipment. Not sure why they try to eliminate this movement by making Pat’s such a fixed mounting.

 

[Blue Mule]

So tonight I loosened all the hardware on the Pat's pieces, hooked up to my land plane, and then adjusted and tightened the hardware while they were connected to the implement. This seems to have helped align them slightly better. They seem to be working OK with the land plane now. I'll try the box blade tomorrow. It's got a different style of hook up....has the pins that protrude out to the sides. The land plane is different with two pieces of steel that a Cat 1 removable pin slides into. This style seems easier to use.

 

[JCoastie]

The land plane is different with two pieces of steel that a Cat 1 removable pin slides into. This style seems easier to use.

That is a clevis type mount.

 

[Rustyiron]

So, you need something like these.

Do you have a link or a name, and is it a direct replacement for kubota extendable cat2?
Now this I'm interested in

 

[PCABE5]

So, you need something like these.

Blue Mule's are non adjustable end links. But I agree that the European style lower links and matching top link is something that the US should have adopted years ago.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Do you have a link or a name, and is it a direct replacement for kubota extendable cat2?
Now this I'm interested in

Typically a customer ships me their ends and I do the fabrication.
But the ends can be purchased as manufactured and the customer can do the fabrication themselves.

 

[LouNY]

Oliver and Ford both offered the hooked ends many years ago as an option for some reason it didn't go over well.
Of course the balls made for those hooks have a different OD then todays which with the cat 2 are usually 56 mm in diameter.

 

[Rustyiron]

Typically a customer ships me their ends and I do the fabrication.
But the ends can be purchased as manufactured and the customer can do the fabrication themselves.

Ah, I mistakenly thought that was Lou's post I was responding to, and the top hook pictured looks a lot like it's got the same yellowish plating or finish. Most of my attachments have a pin that's supported at both ends vs. a traditional cat 1 one side supported with a finger snapper at the other. Do you still need a ball?