three point trailer hitch pictures

[bironacad]

I want to fabricate a trailer hitch to work off my three point hitch. I have a fifth wheel that I want to move about and a pop up. I was wondering if there are similar draw bar photos out there to share? Here are pictures that I took several years ago at an RV dealer. I have an old mopar frame that I will cannibalize to get started on. Any photos out there? Inside the channel is a pipe so that the pin does not get hooked up on a raw edge.

 

[Robb71]

There are several models with good pictures and even a video of one in use on Everythingatachments.com
Tractor 3 Point Hitch Receiver Hitch, Trailer Mover Hitch

There's also some threads of people who made there own.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/193481-hay-spear-trailer-tote.html

 

[teg]

TRAILER MOVER FOR TRACTOR NO RECEIVER - Agri Supply

http://www.tractorsupply.com/3-poin...ity-equipment/farmforce-trailer-mover-2780703

 

[Fxfymn]

None of the pre-made hitches I have seen are set up to move a fiver. The pics you have are interesting, but I wonder how they keep the pin receiver at a 90 degree angle to the pin when the three point is lifted?

I would make it by coming up with a type of gimbal set-up that would allow the receiver to move side to side as well as back and forth. This would keep the receiver tight to the pin box as the grade changes that you are pulling the trailer over.

Do you think the tractor will be heavy enough to keep from being lifted by the trailer? By the time you add the hitch out the back it gives the trailer quite a bit of leverage.

 

[Stihlrunner]

That must be a bit scary with a fifth wheel looming over the operators head!

I've actually built a couple of these for my work for forklifts, that's how they move the trailers in and out of service bays and display. First one was pretty crude, just a frame that slide over forks that had a ball and a box with a hole. The weight of the fifth wheel keeps it held onto the pin box. Problem was with no suspension on the forklift it would crack the fiberglass of the trailer.

Next one was pretty cool...it was built with big trailing arms out of an rv with a big airbag in the center to provide suspension and a shock absorber to control bounce. The pin box also pivoted . It is still in use 16 years later!

 

[clee4020]

Here are pics of mine with my GN.

 

[clee4020]

Here are some with the same attachment using my quick hook/unhook wagon hitch welded to a 2" receiver hitch. I don't have to leave the seat hooking and unhooking cotton wagons, feed wagons, silage wagons, etc... The last pic also shows my trusty sidekick.

 

[JJZ 109]

I have one built into my ballast box. Had an old receiver hitch designed to be bolted to a pickup truck step bumper. I cut a square hole in the ballast box, poked the receiver through from the inside out and then welded the receiver in place inside of the ballast box. Probably could have just as easily drilled the ballast box bottom and bolted the hitch into place also.
The tilt on the ball can be adjust by using the 3PH top link.

 

[jlsmith]

Heres the one I just got, trailer mover and hay mover:thumbsup:

 

[ArtMech]

Some pics of what I'm using to tow a trailer.