Lazy Man's Hitch

Lazy Man's hitch HITCHES Hitches 10-4-8 "Commercial units I've seen are all either too complicated to work reliably, or they interfere with pto operation," says Fred Hansen, Santa Rosa, Calif., who built his own quick hitch. Hansen's "lazy man" hitch was originally designed to make cattle feeding easier. "We pull a feed wagon with a loader tractor to as many as three different feed storage areas. At each area, we drop the wagon, use the tractor to load it and then hook up and move onto the next location. Then, using the same tractor, we feed out the mixture. This new hitch totally eliminates the need to jump on and off the tractor," says Hansen. The hitch uses the 3-pt. to raise and lower the specially-built drawbar sub-frame under the standard drawbar. The lower links on the 3-pt. havebeen removed for convenience since the tractor is never used for the 3-pt. However, the lower drawbar can be easily removed to allow for normal drawbar work, as can the tow rings on the wagon tongue which simply pin into place. "The pin on the lower draw-bar, which simply lifts up through the tow pin on the wagon tongue, was made from an alloy pump driveshaft and welded into place with a 120,000-psi rod," says Hansen. Two solid steel blocks on either side of the hitch sub-frame simply add additional weight to the hitch to overcome high internal rockshaft friction on the particular tractor used. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Fred Hansen, 3420 Guerneville Rd., Santa Rosa, Calif. 95401.

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