3-Point Hitch What is this part called?

[kencoons]

Please see the picture, I need this part. I think it is called a drawbar; I'm not sure. I do need one for my MF 1540 and looking for it on line, but I need to know the name or part number to find it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[smstonypoint]

You are correct -- it's a drawbar, AKA swinging drawbar.

Steve

 

[DMW]

 

[kencoons]

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Thank you both!! Much appreciated.

 

[WranglerX]

Swinging drawbar, but there is another arrow pointing to clevis on lift arm leveling assembly...

3 Point Hitch Attachments

Dale

 

[CobyRupert]

Funny how in the diagram, the "swinging drawbar" gets a additional descriptive adjective ("swinging"), whereas I would just call that the' drawbar (no adjective required).
IMHO, what they just call the "drawbar", I think should get the added description (a "cross drawbar") to set it apart from the tractor's (swinging) drawbar.
:2cents:

 

[Gary Fowler]

Per your photo, your drawbar doesn't swing, so it is just a drawbar although it does appear to be adjustable forward and back (in and out).

 

[WranglerX]

Funny how in the diagram, the "swinging drawbar" gets a additional descriptive adjective ("swinging"), whereas I would just call that the' drawbar (no adjective required).
IMHO, what they just call the "drawbar", I think should get the added description (a "cross drawbar") to set it apart from the tractor's (swinging) drawbar.
:2cents:

Somehow one has to be differentiated from the other... How is the sketch I put up wrong... I have always considered your "cross drawbar" as just the drawbar... Guess it's just what part of country you are in....

In most cases if you look you plain "drawbar" what do you get...

LMGTFY

IF you look up "swinging drawbar" what do you get...

LMGTFY

Dale

 

[1010]

It's supposed to swing right or left so it won't interfere with a PTO shaft, that is being raised and lowered.

 

[WranglerX]

Per your photo, your drawbar doesn't swing, so it is just a drawbar although it does appear to be adjustable forward and back (in and out).

Irony in naming!!!

Dale

 

[PILOON]

That item 'drawbar' is where the best pulling (without damage) can be attained

clevis or whatever and attach your chain right there.

That's my 2 cents!

 

[JWR]

It's supposed to swing right or left so it won't interfere with a PTO shaft, that is being raised and lowered.

It DOES swing when the bolts or pins are removed so that it can. Back in the 50's the ONLY drawbar on many tractors (my Massey Harris Pacer for example) was the one that is left-right oriented. The "swinging drawbar" is NOT fixed and can be moved left/right by removing a bolt or pin that normally keeps it centered. In later years the center or "swinging" drawbar is used to handle much greater towing weights/forces and is fixed down low so it never contributes to "bucking" or raising the front end of the tractor in super heavy pulls. The existence of the center mounted "swinging drawbar" also frees up the lift arms of the 3pt hitch for other things.