Purchased 3pt quick hitch.

pmsmechanic · Nov 9, 2018

Industrial Toys said:
I like to extend the top hook, grab the implement (Harley Rake) with the top and retract the top, at just the right height, pulling the two bottom attachments points perfectly into place.

I do this all the time with my hydraulic top link on my quick hitch. Sure makes hooking up the rototiller easier. Or anything for that matter.

DieselBound · Nov 9, 2018

My NX's extendable lower links have been great. My B7800's 3pt setup is about as awful as there can be: can not stabilize link arms; not extendable- I have to play Twister to get things hooked up. I had a QH but it didn't hook up to everything (not the box blade, which couldn't be modified- it is QH-like but not). I then went with Pats for a while but found that the ends would kind of twist and bind. I "solved" the B7800 issues, for the most part, by getting QH implements that I need only insert pins (rather than spreading and pushing the link arms on pins. I'd love to have a QH on the NX, but my RC is older and it would have to be extensively modified; other thing is that EricTheOracle has noted that a Cat2 QH ends up smashing the fenders on the NX (unless you're overly careful about raising the 3pt); a Cat1 just seems a little lite. Biggest plus on a QH is that your top link is docked all the time: I have to cable up my hydraulic top link on the NX; on the B7800 it just flops around.

And then there's connecting up PTO shafts... (QHs make this activity a little harder)

If I ever get a welder I'll be attacking my NX's RC so that I can utilize a QH (to spare me of messing with the top link all the time!)

K5lwq · Nov 9, 2018

All great points! I will check clearances carefully in the morning.

No hope getting a adjustable side link locally today so I will have to order one. I have decided to order hydraulic T&T from Fite Rite tomorrow. I am getting both side links made just to provide a little more flexibility. They probably won't get here till spring next year so I definitely am going to order a mechanical version to use till then.

I also am going to check out my other implements tomorrow to what needs changing to use with the QH.

DieselBound · Nov 9, 2018

I envy those with TnT! Perhaps one day I'll add a tilt: hasn't been a pressing need; but, as is often said, you don't know what you're missing until you've had something (it was like stepping up to the big leagues when I got the hydraulic top link for my new NX [having spent years messing with mechanical adjustments on my B7800, which is not real conducive for adding on rear hydraulics]).

TheMan419 · Nov 10, 2018

I love love love my QH. I got the HF one. Thought for $100 (minus a 20% coupon and a free flashlight of course!) where can I go wrong. Even if it does not work where can you go wrong. Now I would not trade it for anything. If it does not last long due to HF quality I will put the money into buying a better one.

The top link hook on the thing needs to be re done. However I mainly use a bush hog and a tiller. So I am getting off the tractor to hook up the PTO. So I use the top link adapter.

It took the 30 minute job of hook up the tiller and made it a 5 minute job. Of course now there is less grease on my hands and less swearing, so not sure if that is a win or not.

I would mod the implement to make it work with the QH. If you mod the QH what do you do with the next purchase? If it does not fit the QH you cannot mod the QH to fit or it will not fit the original implement.

I also started to store my brush hog on some furniture dollies. That actually makes hooking up to the QH harder. If you don't hit the implement just right it now rolls away. When it was on the ground things would just kind of bang into place if you were a 1/4 inch off or whatever.

In any event the QH was the best $100 I ever spent. You will love it.

K5lwq · Nov 10, 2018

TheMan419,

This was a impulse purchase. If they didn't have it sitting right where I was standing, I would still be thinking about getting one and still be thinking about the T&T. Now I have to move forward. If the sun will come up, I can see what I got!

My plan is not to modify the hitch other than adding another adjustment to the tractor's 3pt.

Diesel,

I still have to add the remotes to my Kioti so I might not have the room either. It just so happens that I have a three spool valve that I just took off my loader because it blows over the relief when using the first spool and has no check valves. For remotes, I don't think it will bother me as much and I will put piloted load checks on the side links to correct the terrible internal leakage this valve has. Youli might make some good valves, but this ain't one!

I also have some stainless hard line left over from when I did the third function for the grapple. I am hoping that will help me keep the install tight enough to make everything fit.

ovrszd · Nov 10, 2018

DieselBound said:
My NX's extendable lower links have been great. My B7800's 3pt setup is about as awful as there can be: can not stabilize link arms; not extendable- I have to play Twister to get things hooked up. I had a QH but it didn't hook up to everything (not the box blade, which couldn't be modified- it is QH-like but not). I then went with Pats for a while but found that the ends would kind of twist and bind. I "solved" the B7800 issues, for the most part, by getting QH implements that I need only insert pins (rather than spreading and pushing the link arms on pins. I'd love to have a QH on the NX, but my RC is older and it would have to be extensively modified; other thing is that EricTheOracle has noted that a Cat2 QH ends up smashing the fenders on the NX (unless you're overly careful about raising the 3pt); a Cat1 just seems a little lite. Biggest plus on a QH is that your top link is docked all the time: I have to cable up my hydraulic top link on the NX; on the B7800 it just flops around.

And then there's connecting up PTO shafts... (QHs make this activity a little harder)

If I ever get a welder I'll be attacking my NX's RC so that I can utilize a QH (to spare me of messing with the top link all the time!)

Several years ago someone on here reported buying a pair of extendable lowers arms for a B2910 and putting them on their B7800. Memory says they were $300-ish.

ovrszd · Nov 10, 2018

K5lwq said:
All great points! I will check clearances carefully in the morning.

No hope getting a adjustable side link locally today so I will have to order one. I have decided to order hydraulic T&T from Fite Rite tomorrow. I am getting both side links made just to provide a little more flexibility. They probably won't get here till spring next year so I definitely am going to order a mechanical version to use till then.

I also am going to check out my other implements tomorrow to what needs changing to use with the QH.

When I added hydraulic right side link I moved the mechanical adjustable link to the left side. This increased the range of motion.

K5lwq · Nov 10, 2018

Still no luck on the finish mower. The adapter for the top link was longer than the one that was on the mower. Just for testing purpose I swapped them out. It will hook up but because the top hook is lower, when I raise the 3pt it just rolls out of the hook.

It will hook to the disk with no issue.

I still need to try my grader blade.

The shredder will work which surprised me as both it and finish mower are BushHog brand. I still have to get bushings for it and the other implements but here is a picture with it raised.