QuickHitch on BX

[patrickg]

Yeah, And they will send you out a free 6 minute video that shows off the ease of working the hitch. So easy even a young lady does it on camera. Note: I refer to their obvious message and an not making a chauvinistic statement. I fully recognize there are women that are better at just about every truck and tractor task than I.

 

[patrickg]

Website is:http: //www.freedomhitch.com/index2.html

There is a toll free number listed on the site.

Rick

Take out the space between the colon and the // and it will work. Some of us are lazy and use copy and paste rather than typing stuff in. Just got error message till I fixed it.

 

[caddison]

Charlie,

Even at $100.00 ea. that would seem cheap compared to a trip to the doctor for a back injury plus the pain and aggravation. I have been switching between the tiller and mower quite often and am thinking very hard about a Freedom hitch or Delta Hook and then pull one off in the winter for the rear blade.

 

[GlennT]

Using a quick hitch moves implements several inches further back from the tractor and makes the front end even lighter than it already is. Even though I have 200 lbs. of suitcase weights on the front of my JD 670, the front end is really light when I hook on my Valby chipper or use the scoop or the crane. A few inches of leverage really does seem to make a difference. This probably isn't what the dealer was talking about, but it is a factor to consider on a small, relatively light tractor.

 

[RAllen]

PatrickG
I did paste the URL from my browser, sorry it did not work. Yep, they have a video but they also have salesmen on line that seem to be know their business. I bet they know, or should, if their product will work on a BX- small three-point hitch. He was looking for another opinion.

Rick

 

[ddl]

The problem this people are having is learning to back up to a piece of equipment to hook it up. Will not the freedom hitch make it even harder to back up to the correct location? I can not imagine having problems hooking up a 3 point hitch, you just have to unsrcew the turnbuckles on the arms and you have at least a thre to four inch swing. Once connected you raise the impletment and align the equipment with the tractor. How can usiong the fredomm hitch help. What these people need is practise. Or maybe a bigger tractor that allows them to connect real equipment up.

Dan l

 

[Charliebrn]

I've used the Freedom on my Pa's L2900. You back upto the implement, ou have an inch or two of leeway, you raise the 3pt with the adapter on it, underneath the implement side, and it automatically aligns the implement, and locks it in place. Unless you need a PTO driveshaft, that's it, you're done...takes 20 seconds if you know what you are doing. To drop the implement, lower it to take the weight off, pull a handle (from your seat) lower it a little more and drive away. no pushing, yanking, driving in pins or unlocking and turning turnbuckles. Takes a 10 minute job that could hurt your back or something else into a 30 second painfree operation.

 

[RAllen]

Under the best conditions, hooking and unhooking a three point hitch is fairly easy. Freedom and other quick type hitches have much more leeway when it comes to uneven ground. Additionally, there is much less chance of pinching your hand or fingers.

My personal decision point to buy the Freedom Hitch System was right after I took 50 minutes to hook up an implement and lost the last of daylight. I had hooked the same implement in less than 5 minutes on many occasions previously. Perhaps I could have used more practice. But I have not had to risk mashed fingers, strained back and I have saved alot of time. For me, it was a good decision.

Rick

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Yes it is a matter of tractor size, as mentioned before, the BX is a CAt 1 but just barely. It's a tradeoff. With my bigger Ford or Kubota the freedom hitch wouldn't be much of an issue, I too can hook up pretty quick, with the BX it's more of a chore. I have the box scraper in a shed under a chain hoist, just too much grief trying to move that around.

I have seen the quick type hitches on the bigger tractors, they seem just about an instant swap, some of the big JD's come with them from the git go.

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