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3-Pt. Mounted "Six-In-One" Tool
"I got tired of hooking up all my different implements to my tractor, so I decided to make a hitch that lets me hook up to almost any of my implements quickly and easily," says Bud Beaston II, Skiatook, Okla., about his patent pending "six-in-one" tool.
  He used 2 by 4 tubing to build a rectangular-shaped main frame with 3-pt. mounting brackets on one side of it. There's a 2-in. receiver hitch at the bottom, and a slotted post puller just above it. A pair of metal sleeve holders opposite the post puller are used to store two additional hitches that fit into the receiver hitch - one with a drawbar and the other with a ball. A pair of removeable forklift forks pin onto the frame's sides. A second ball hitch mounts permanently on top, and there's a holder for a round bale spear next to it. The bale spear fits into a coupler located just below the ball.
  "I built it because I don't have a front-end loader on my Kubota M8200 82 hp tractor," says Beaston. "I recently bought a 100-acre farm which I'm in the process of reconditioning. About half the land is tillable, and I also have a few horses so I use a lot of different implements. I can use my homemade hitch for pulling everything from gooseneck trailers to implement trailers, offset disks, and culti-packers, and to haul round bales or other raw material. The only time I remove it from the tractor is when I need to use my Bush Hog mower, which is 3-pt. mounted."
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bud A. Beaston II, HC 67, Box 935, Skiatook, Okla. 74070 (ph 918 288-2602).


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2004 - Volume #28, Issue #3