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Shooter, our NAA has one of those. Many of the 9.and 8's did not seem to.

The quick hitches like the one HF sells work great as long as the implements you are using adhere to the Cat 1 Geometry. the problem most have is that the implement manufacturer didn't adhere to the geometry for the hitch. in the picture below they left out the height for cat 0 which is 12".

Why not just get extendable draft links? I think its mandatory.


And I agree, the fender mounted controls are the bees knees. I can drive the tractor forward and reverse from back there, extremely slowly however, to further assist... as well as raising or lowering the draft links.

Keep that well oiled! Excessively so.

Had those on a tractor I traded off last year, and they worked well. But they had to be well oiled to do so.

Any rust or dust in that moving latch will make ya cuss, and get the hammer out!

I like this method.


Especially if you have land scattered around and are in the process of doing several things at once.

Or if a tractor has an issue.


And if you use several machines it helps to keep one or two from stacking up the hours.


Not 3-point specific but it also sucks unhooking. Just a pain in the ass if it's muddy or really cold.


Not too mention near constant loader work.



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Air Drill

Disk

Bale unroller

Diker

Ditcher

Mower

Round balers

Grain auger

Hay processor

Mixer wagon



What else?


Grain cart(aka deer feeder)?


Back to 3-point,

Bale spear?

I never had too much trouble changing implements, adjustable draft links are helpful, so is backing up square to the implement.

Options and aftermarket attachment.

There were about ten 8N tractors in the extended family through the 70s and 80s. I never saw an actual factory drawbar on any of them. But several had home made attachments which used the belly pin to pull from and were stabilized via the A frame drawbar supports as described above.

We used both of the shown stabilizer sets together to prevent sidesway, and support the load.

Lots of dead farmers out there from attempting to move a tractor from the ground.

Been guilty of it myself. Standing directly in front of a 15.5x38 Ag tire and tapping the control lever on the Hydro 70. "Just need another inch to hitch up the three bottom roll over plow, or the eight foot hydraulic terracing blade."

I actually much prefer hitching the Cat I implements to the little tractors. I can just pick up one side of the implement and move it to the tractor by hand.

I've got 'em on my little Kabota 2601. I love them.

Much appreciate that information, Idaho Shooter.

They make a weld on type, I have them on my Kubota.

Will it fit an Oliver 1850 ?

kwg

Never seen that. Damn that's neat. Holy balls would that be handy. Figured one of the reasons God gave me a strong back was so I could wrestle implements on and off the 3 point hitch.

Never broke a major bone, but thought I did last year when the stabilizer bar caught me across the forearm fugging with getting a homemade blade hooked on my old Case.

It will fit any Cat 111 I think?

It will fit any Cat 111 I think?

i use a pats because of different widths of implements. the harbor freight style will only fit one size.

the pats is not perfect but i can hook to a 10 ft bush hog and only get off once and never wrestle with it. narrow implements are a snap too.

I have been using Pat's first generation quick hitch for about 15 years now on one of my tractors. Not perfect but it has made life easier hooking up heavy implements. My big tractor has extendable hitch arms and I like them too.

I priced extendable hitch arms for the JD before buying Pat's system, was not really an option due to cost. They do make the hitch arms a bit longer but I have not found it to be a problem. I would buy them again.

A quick hitch would not work for me as my impliments are different widths across the hookups.

If you die from the new JD’s driving over you while your using the fender controls, your the slowest knucklehead known to man. I would say it will go a whopping .0005mph in that mode, and the parking brake has to be engaged so the very millisecond you let go of one of the two buttons (for safety sake) that has to be depressed for it to work, it instantly stops.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PBy5mDp3U


The next thing I always get as well, hydraulic top n tilt. Although the tilt feature isnt worth a hoot when hooking up, the hydro top link is badass.

Really though, extendable draft links is really the only thing the average bear needs. You dont even need to be perfectly lined up with the implement, you can be off cant 3-4” and the draft links will correct it when you raise them the first time.

This^^^, vid coulda been 1 minute shorter with some bushing lube.

Wait, what?

The fender mounted controls are the best idea Deere has had in a very long time.