Quick Hitches Quick Hitch from TSC

Mosey · Mar 2, 2003

Loges1 -

( I'm in the process of building my own quick hitch. The width and top to bottom hook spacings are cat 1 standards)

What is that "standard"? I measured all my 3pt implements and the spacing various all over the place.

( but the hooks are sized for cat 2 pins. 1 1/8" bottom and 1" top. That was more by accident than design)

Since you're building your own, wouldn't it be better to make the hooks fit 7/8" pins? Then you wouldn't need the adapters/bushings.

JimMc · Mar 2, 2003

There appears to be a great deal more pin wear when using a quick hitch. (In actuality, it's a combination of most hitch designs wearing the pins faster and the fact that most folks using a quick hitch use their implements more.) It's both quicker and cheaper to change the bushings than to change the lift pin, especially when some of the pins are welded in. In addition, the better flanged quick hitch bushings are hardened (you can tell the good ones from the cheap ones by the finish - hardened bushings are black) whereas most lift pins are cold forged.

Loges1 · Mar 3, 2003

Mosey,
Yea the plan was to make them fit 7/8" pins, but a old tip in the plasma cutter resulted in to much kerf on the cut. By the time I got the cuts squared up it wasn't to much more work with the die grinder to take them to 1 1/8"
As far as the cat1 standard I saw them posted somewere here on TBN and if memory serves correctly it is 27" inside bottom hooks and 18" center/center from top hook to bottom hook. At least that is what my mower and blade measure /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif If I ever get any kind of implement that won't fit I'll just take the gas hatchet to it and make it work /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JimMc · Mar 3, 2003

The implement standard is 15" vertical from center of lift pin to center of toplink pin. Depending on which variation you are looking at the flange to flange distance on the lift pins is either 26 or 26.5, so if your inside of hook to inside of hook distance is 27" you'll be able to connect reliably.