Made-It-Myself 3-Pt. Hitch

Made-It-Myself 3-Pt Hitch HITCHES “My homemade hitch lets me use small tillage implements designed for a 25 hp Farmall tractor with my bigger Deere 50 hp tractor equipped with a Cat II 3-pt hitch ” says Jerry Waldner Valier Montana Waldner uses small tillage implements including a small plow a 4-ft disk and a 6-ft field cultivator in his 8-acre market garden He had been using a 1976 Farmall 140 25 hp tractor to pull the implements which all came equipped with a tapered spear-type hitch that locked onto the Farmall hitch “The problem was that when we let the implement down the tractor’s hydraulic system forced the implement down into the ground which caused the tractor’s hydraulic pump to overheat and ruined it ” says Waldner “I replaced the pump but was worried the same problem could happen again So I made a separate hitch that can be used on any of the implements allowing me to use them on a 3-pt hitch ” He used 4-in sq tubing to form a 3-ft long horizontal bar and welded a short shaft onto each end to hook up to the 3-pt lift arms A vertical 2-ft high steel bar welded onto the bar pins onto the 3-pt top link There’s also a short drawbar on back of the hitch “The tapered spear on the implement runs through a short rectangular tube and locks into place It works good and is easy to move from implement to implement I just remove the spear and pull 2 pins ” says Waldner Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Jerry Waldner 900 Birch Creek Colony Rd Valier Mont 59486 ph 406 279-3586 ext 432

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