He Built A Lawn Tractor Lift Hitch

He Built A Lawn Tractor Lift Hitch HITCHES Oregon handyman Jerome Kuenzi says the power lift hitch he built for the back of his 1974 Cub Cadet 128 lawn tractor works great for hooking up yard tools and trailers The base of Kuenzi’s hitch is supported by an 8 by 10-in piece of 1/4-in mild steel plate bolted into four holes in the back of the transmission Vertical metal gussets on each side have mounting holes that support lift arms held in place with 1/2-in pins Kuenzi built the lift arms and cross bracing out of 1/2-in mild steel plate Hooks on each side and one on the horizontal brace form a simple 3-pt mount that Kuenzi uses to carry his 10-ft wide 3-pt sprayer A 12-volt pump runs the booms He also uses the hitch to carry weights when the front push blade is on the tractor He plans to build a box blade that the hitch will carry for leveling gravel and dirt A hitch ball welded to the top of the cross brace of the hitch is especially handy pulling his wood splitter a yard trailer and moving trailers their metal shop builds to the parking lot “My tractor doesn’t have hydraulics so I mounted a small Badland electric winch on the metal plate ” Kuenzi says “Power cables run straight from the tractor battery to the dash where I have an up and down control to raise and lower the winch ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Jerome Kuenzi 102 117th Ave N E Salem Ore 97317 jeromekuenzi03@gmail com

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