what is the difference, besides price, of all of these 3 pt quick hitchs

Fallon · Sep 19, 2014

I have a cheap northern tool QH. Had to do some grinding on the bottom hooks & extend the top hook back 1". Build quality is what you'd expect for harbor freight type gear. At 25% the price of a I match or Land Pride one I'm willing to do some work.

I saw a YouTube comparison of iMatch vs a HF... Build quality & fitments on the I match was nice. HF was what you expect from HF.

Picked up another QH used with a few SSQA plates for $100 on the whole lot. Don't remember the brand, looked like some store brand & lesser build quality. Welded that QH to one of the SSQA plates so I can easily pick up 3pt implements with my loader. So far I've spent over an hour grinding the lower hooks so the bushings will fit in them & I'm not done yet. Probably need to weld a top hook extension on too although I haven't checked yet.

Basically you get what you pay for. Cheap Harbor Freight type probably needs a bit of work to work properly. If you don't mind a bit of tinkering its not a bad way to go.

Fallon · Sep 19, 2014

Also, from what I've seen, unless its iMatch, Land Pride or Kubota, they all seem to be the cheap HF type, possibly even from the same Chinese factory.

PhysAssist · Sep 19, 2014

2+ on all the working good and no problems for the HF QH,xplus if you watch for a sale and/or use a 20% off coupon, you can get it for even less.

We use ours constantly, in fact it hasn't been off the tractor since we got it.

We have a 500# Gannon ROBB, and a Kubota-branded ballast box weighing well over 600# and use both of those to hook our utility trailer to whether its full of logs, rocks, or gravel, and the QH is the least of our worries...

It don't seem to mind what we hook to it.

I did have to move the pins on the Bballast box to get it to fit, but honestly that would've been true no matter which QH we bought.
Thomas