3-Point Hitch TC 30 3 Point hitch

Mrwurm · Jul 14, 2003

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spencer200 · Jul 14, 2003

I would say your dealer installed the arms backwards..

DavidW · Jul 14, 2003

Guys... Thanks so much for your input. I just got home, looked at the pics attached (Thanks Jerry, and I changed my profile). It looks as though their installed backwards. I know I looked at them at least 2 hours since I've owned this thing and it just took a little more perspective and maybe a fresh head.

I'll try to get home early enough tommorow to take them off and swap them around. I'll let ya know.

I've been monitoring this forum for a little over a month and I think its an awesome resource... Especially for us Farmer Wannabees.

I bought this tractor to build my little one a practice track. He races motocross and does quite well. !0 years old now. About the only kids he can't beat have their own track to practice at during the week. I've been tossing this around for awhile. With the low interest rates and giving up racing just one weekend out of the month will more than pay for the tractor.
Heck, I'm even contemplating selling my motocross bike now that I have the CUT. It's about as much fun, and I sure don't get as sore riding it.

Thanks Again, I'll keep you posted

yellowdog99502 · Jul 15, 2003

Dave,

Given your original sketch, there is no way those arms can work correctly. Heck, they don't even have the right bends.

But, if the correct bars were turned upside down, the implement end of the arm would appear to be pointing outward (instead of straight back) when spread wide enough to fit an attachment. You probably couldn't get anything attached without one whale of a fight!

The arms on my TC30 look just like Jerry's, now. The dealer (?) installed the clevis pins on the lower arms with the pin keepers on the tire side. Sure enough, the tires eventually caught the keepers just right and straightened them out. Lost both pins one afternoon while mowing. Didn't notice right away as the arms stayed within the clevises on the vertical links until I tried to raise the hitch! Then, nothing. . . .

Life goes on,

Don

MLB · Jul 15, 2003

Kinda scary that a dealer did that.......... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

DavidW · Jul 15, 2003

Well.... We have a fix! I guess as I get older my short term memory is not that great. My sketch was not as accurate as I remembered. Probably from being flustered every time I tried changing attachments.

After looking at my bars again and again, I was finally able to see the light. Albeit with a little help from you guys. My bars and the supports that go down to them were both wrong. The lower bars were installed to the opposite sides they belong and the bars that drop down to hold them were backwards!

Boy. what a difference! the attachments were so much easier to attach now that everything lines up properly!

Thanks again for all your input and the pics to show me how this thing is SUPPOSED to be! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif