Quick Hitches The Best Quick Hitch???

GE222 · Jan 9, 2011

If you purchase a Cat-1 hitch, make sure it fits your implement. Cat-2 and larger are much more standardized so compatibility is not an issue.

bennatti · Jan 10, 2011

Also would like to vote for Pat's easy change system...simple and elegant...and for an olde guy...its a real treat to no longer have to "bull" the implements around to get them in the correct position.

D33r3 6r33N · May 27, 2011

One more vote for Pat's. I have a Land Pride tiller, my JD ballast, Howse BB, and a RB. The dimentions are all so different that I don't think that I don't think a quick hitch would have worked without me "breaking" something. Not having to wrestle my implements around anymore is a blessing.

charleyfarmall · May 27, 2011

Well, I've used them all. I dumped my Pat's in favor of standard extendable links. I like them much better but that's just me. Oh, and my wife likes them better too and she farms more than I do. The cat's meow is the iMatch style actually. However, if you own older equipment if may need to be modified to get the top link hook to work. Alternatively, if you have a landpride or Speeco you can always remove the hook like I did the other day to run my 40+ year old flail mower. I will be modifying the top link pin to work with the hook but really needed the flail the other day. See below

gwdixon · May 28, 2011

Waaay off topic but, charleyfarmall is that an old Alamo flail? I've been having trouble finding a belt and bearings for mine. Any source?

Got the blades and belt pulleys.

wny770 · May 28, 2011

I have a Speeco that work fine for me. I can hook the back blade, tiller, carry all, and snowblower without leaving my seat, except to hook the PTO shaft. i did have to modify the carry all to work, but it was no big deal.

belah · May 29, 2011

I ended up getting Pat's System and you were right, I Love It. It fits all my different implements without any problem. T:thumbsup:hanks for the good advice !!!

GSmith4965 · May 29, 2011

Priefert has a unique design. The unit is adjustable for cat 1 or cat 2 and the top hook is adjustable and can be reversed as well

gumshu · May 29, 2011

I was going to buy a Speedco, but I need to use a post hole digger... so I bought the Pat's system for each tracktor instead. If it were not for the posthole digger, I would have purchased the Speedco at TSC.

Mudfarmer · May 29, 2011

I have a Pat's and a hydraulic top lift and like the combincation very much. But I think a key piece of information with a quick link is the gimic that comes with the Pat's: the bent washer that accesorizes the lynch pin. I had a Harbor Freight quick hitch that is admittably cheap and weak, but would in retrospect not have bend out of shape with my bush hog if I had a big washer between it and the lynch pin. The Pat's quick hitches come with sveral large bent-over-washers-with-a-lynch-pin hole. They Keep the hitch from overriding and working the linch pin. By the way washers without the bend work fine. I now keep a pocketfull of them from Lowe's in my peanut-butter-jar of extra lynch pins.

Mf

Ps: did this message make any sense at all to anyone who never bought a Pat's?