What can I do with these?

[Brahmus]

I know, I'll need pics. Hopefully I can snap a few tomorrow but here is what I have.

the 3point frame from from a trashed bush hog
(3) yes that is 3 draw-tite hitches
scrap metal
various recievers and balls

What I need/want:

Something to move my bumper pull 20' trailer
Something to move my father's 24' gooseneck
Something that'll stay on the back of the tractor most of the time, Ballast would be nice but I do not want to loose the line of sight to hook a trailer up.
I need hay forks, perhaps having a spear welded to a reciever or square tubing that I could swap out, but I'm worried about the height.


So long story short, I have some bits and pieces and want to make a tractor swiss army knife. I'll take all and any suggestions, pictures, ideas etc.

 

[mrcaptainbob]

Beautiful! Good score on this stuff! I'd weld one of those bumper hitches to that three point frame. Then I'd make two kinds of tow hitches. One typical for normal towing of low mount tractors. The other hitch I would make to be a riser from it. I'd weld a two foot section of 2x2 to the piece that pins into the receiver and mount a gooseneck type plate to the top of that. Sure, the loading is rather extreme, but if you're not doing high speed, or hill pulling on the gooseneck trailer, this would work fine. That riser may not even be two feet. As long as you get it normal ride height for the goose pin.

 

[jenkinsph]

I would be careful moving a large gooseneck with a 3pt hitch could be life altering.

Your in an area that is flat as a pool table which helps but stay away from levees.


Steve

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I've seen receiver hitch A-frames that have the receiver tube between the lift arms for bumper pull applications and a ball at the top of the A-frame for the Gooseneck.

I'd make the hay forks/bale spear a separate implement. A 3 point A-frame is not too hard to make from your scrap metal, and it's easy enough to swap 3-point implements that I don't see an advantage of making something that goes in the receiver hitch.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I found an example of the Gooseneck ball hitch...

Flexpoint 3-Point Hitch Adapter Category 2-3 | 3-Point Hitch Adapters | Northern Tool + Equipment

 

[Brahmus]

I was thinking of something exactly like that but if I have the bale spear base welded to a 2x2 tube, why couldn't I just pin it inplace of the reciever and have a multi tool? No one likes to change tools much and if I can keep that down to a minimum I'll use it more often than trying to move the trailer with the bucket.. haha

I have a few more things in my head I'm going to try and sketch out in Solidworks.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

I was thinking of something exactly like that but if I have the bale spear base welded to a 2x2 tube, why couldn't I just pin it inplace of the reciever and have a multi tool? No one likes to change tools much and if I can keep that down to a minimum I'll use it more often than trying to move the trailer with the bucket.. haha

I have a few more things in my head I'm going to try and sketch out in Solidworks.

I'm sure it would work. I guess you just have to decide if it's easier to man-handle a bale spear into a 2" receiver hitch or screw around with lining up the lift arms on a 3 pt. hitch.

Another thing to consider is the weight a bale spear would put on a receiver hitch. You're concentrating all of your forces into a 2" center point. If you use the A-frame, your forces are spread out over a 2 foot area. Are you planning on handling round bales or big square bales?

 

[Brahmus]

Round bales.

I can run the calculations but I figured if the spear can handle it normally, and the reciever should be able to handle 2K (thinking high tongue weight), I don't see an issue. I'm not sure how much stress it would put on it but I can't see a whole lot. I'm saying this because I think of my father's spear that he picked up at Tractor supply that is mounted onto his bucket of the Mahindra. That bucket is rather flimsy and to my surprise I haven't seen it bow with a bale on it. atleast the 3pt would support some of the bale from the hanging moment.

I also thought of mounting to spears. One higher, say where that gooseneck ball is (have a reciever for the 2 5/16") and another down low in the bumper pull reciever. It would help stabilize and share the load. Think?

 

[Willl]

I need hay forks, perhaps having a spear welded to a reciever or square tubing that I could swap out, but I'm worried about the height.

What exactly do you mean by "but I'm worried about the height" ?

 

[Brahmus]

Well I would figure the spear would have to be fairly high on the 3 pt, probably around where the top link mounts inorder for me to hit close to the center of the bale and be able to pick it up enough off the ground not to drag it. Make sense or am I complicating it?