"Reverse clevis hitch"? Anyone ever tried?

[Dadnatron]

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I was able to find a heavy twisted clevis that I have attached, with normal pin, to my drawbar and the tongue of my farm wagon - looks just like your red or yellow ones - then fits nicely into this clevis. Its called a 7/8 x 3 twisted clevis - it is rotated 90 degrees and allows the tongue to slide right on. Found it at the local Farm/garden store.

oosik,

Do you just pin your implement through the clevis and call it good?

 

[CADplans]

Buy a foot of !/2" Grade 70 chain,, a couple BIG Grade 8 bolts and washers,,,
and connect the two. You can shorten the chain until it works right.

 

[ovrszd]

You might need a Hammer Strap hitch on your tractor, then a pintle loop on your attachment. That's what I use on my 5yd Clamshell Scraper. I dug thru all my pics and can't find one of the hammer strap hitch that I added to my Kubota drawbar. Also don't have any of the pintle loop on my scraper, but you know what that looks like. Here's the best I can do.

 

[oosik]

View attachment 498266Dadnatron - yes, for the farm wagon I pull, that is the primary connection. As a safety measure, I always have a safety chain between the tongue of the wagon and the back of the tractor. I also use this "twisted clevis" to attach my log chains when I'm pulling something with a chain - usually big log or loosening a big rock. The 7/8 - in the description of the clevis - refers to the diameter of the bar stock used to build the body of the unit. My tractor with its 12,000 pound limit on the drawbar should never damage the clevis.

I pull the wagon around, empty, with my ATV. The wagon is rated at 20,000 pounds so I sort of watch that its not overloaded when attached to the tractor. Experience has shown its not the "pull" that's the concern - its the "push" if its loaded heavily.

 

[George2615]

oosik,

Do you just pin your implement through the clevis and call it good?

Plus, you can drop chains through the twisted clevis and use as a tie down point if you need to haul tractor on a trailer.

 

[Dadnatron]

Ovrszd... I had forgotten about hammer straps. I agree, it would take modification of all implements, so I'm going to try other options first. If I am going to modify, I might as well just weld a regular clevis hitch to them and call it good.


I've ordered a 1" twisted clevis from Amazon. Should be delivered Saturday. I need it this weekend, unless the weather turns bad, in which, I will be installing my LEDs.

Thanks for the information and I'll let you know how it works for me.

 

[Egon]

A couple of pictures:

A swivel pintle hook. The second one would make for an easy bolt on, weld on drawbar swivel fabrication.

 

[kthompson]

A couple of pictures:
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A swivel pintle hook. The second one would make for an easy bolt on, weld on drawbar swivel fabrication.

To me a rotating pintle hook suits all your needs and you may can have a mount for the pintle hook modified to bolt to the draw bar and you pin to it with no modification to your implements.

 

[oosik]

The clevis you are getting must be - 1" x 4". That should be just about big enough to pull the entire left side of the earth.

 

[Plantation Paul]

You might need a Hammer Strap hitch on your tractor, then a pintle loop on your attachment. That's what I use on my 5yd Clamshell Scraper. I dug thru all my pics and can't find one of the hammer strap hitch that I added to my Kubota drawbar. Also don't have any of the pintle loop on my scraper, but you know what that looks like. Here's the best I can do.

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That will allow it to have more movement without putting things in a bind. Plus most of my heavy equipment (tandem scrapers, large 30' disks, etc) are already set up this way. It may be a bit painful (in the pocket book) but I think it is the best way.