pat's easy change/chipper

[debushau]

I picked up a Pat's Easy Change and installed it over the weekend. It worked okay on my rotary cutter, thankfully the PTO shaft was long enough and it saved some time in changing implements.

I did not have as much luck with my chipper, a fairly typical Jinma Model 6. The problem I am struggling with is that this chipper requires that the draft links be spead wider which then causes the hooks of the Pat's to no longer be perpendicular to the pins. I know this could be rectified if I undid the u-bolt and all of the set screws and re-set the hook to be perpendicular. But, really, what's the point in having a quick change device if you have to spend 30 minutes re-adjusting it for each implement?

Maybe I just optimize for the most commonly used implement and remove the Pat's to use the chipper? Anyone else suceeding in using this system with a Jinma chipper (which, I have to add, is my least favorite implement)?

 

[Cyberroc]

I don't have a chipper or that system, however did you contact them about it?

If not, how wide (or far off) are you talking? If it's only inches could you invert a pin or both to get it to work?

Just putting those out there, I have seen where pins needed to be inverted to work with a different system.

 

[Ranch_Hand_Supp]

We have needed to put the lift pins on the inside for some applications for the Jinma chippers we sell / sold.


Ronald
Ranch Hand Supply

 

[jpm]

i have a pats and a jinma and it hooks up with no big problem but mine are
old and well worn in

 

[debushau]

Putting the pins on the inside, that's a good idea - I will try that.

 

[AlanB]

I have Pat's and a Jinma or clone chipper.

By the nature of it, if you have different width attahments, the pins will sit at slight angles.

For myself, I just don't worry about it, I set my pats up for the "standard" as if there really was one, I don't remember where I read it but there are a couple charts around, unfortunately no manufacturers seem to follow them.

Anyway, on mine, I think my chipper is a bit wider, but when operating my chipper is supported by the ground anyway, and the pins are more acting as stops, so I do not worry about re-adjusting it.

 

[joe48]

This answer may not be exactly by the Pat's book, but it's worked for 2yrs since I got PEC.
I have the same problem ,every 3pt piece of equipt. I have is a different width. It didn't take me too long to figure out that I couldn't readjust all the set screws everytime I change equipt.
So first I tried to find an AVERAGE setting that would work for everything, NG.
The angles would ok for one and not a nother. So then I decided to try backing off the set screws about a 1/4in, and the U clamps just enough to allow flex. Works great as long as you use the bent washers that come with PEC. or 7/8" or 1" heavy flat washers. Now I have a set of washers and clip pins on each piece of equip.(costs you maybe $2.00 /attachment, and you don't have to swap or go looking for the washers and pins).
I'm sure some one will find falt with this method, but it works fine for me.

 

[3RRL]

This answer may not be exactly by the Pat's book, but it's worked for 2yrs since I got PEC.
I have the same problem ,every 3pt piece of equipt. I have is a different width. It didn't take me too long to figure out that I couldn't readjust all the set screws everytime I change equipt.
So first I tried to find an AVERAGE setting that would work for everything, NG.
The angles would ok for one and not a nother. So then I decided to try backing off the set screws about a 1/4in, and the U clamps just enough to allow flex. Works great as long as you use the bent washers that come with PEC. or 7/8" or 1" heavy flat washers. Now I have a set of washers and clip pins on each piece of equip.(costs you maybe $2.00 /attachment, and you don't have to swap or go looking for the washers and pins).
I'm sure some one will find falt with this method, but it works fine for me.

Joe,
What you describe has occurred naturally as the "U" bolts and set screws broke off. I've subjected them to a lot of pressure pulling an pushing my heavy boxblade with no problems except the bolts breaking. I switch from Cat I to Cat II implements all the time. So now I have used them for nearly 3 years like that.

Luckily, Pat's fits my arm ends in the vertical position pretty good with little clearance, but they can move (swivel & tilt) sideways quite a bit. When tilted way up for cutting gutters and such, they retain the lift pins well because of the movement in them, even though Pat's does not sit square to the lift pins. I think what you did is a good idea, as long as the vertical fit to your lift arm ends is pretty good and doesn't allow Pat's to flop over the ends. I found they don't have to sit "square" to the lift pins to work.
They are great!