question on my fast hitch on 230

I was wondering about my hitch. I have never plowed a field in my life(I have run a front tine walk behind rototiller) (my farming experience in a nutshell :)

anyway about my 230 hitch... someone converted it to 3 point some time ago, and made inserts with the eyeballs on the end to take the cat 1 pins. The hitch itself is in the shape of a wishbone and is fastened under the tractor rear end.

Where it fastens on wants to swivel back and forth a few inches. Now also back at the connection there is an arm that sticks out and up off the wishbone that nothing is hooked to. IT looks to me that the hitch is upside down, cause the arm is sticking out the passenger side, and on the drivers side there is a rod not hooked to anything that goes to some kind of adjustment that looks like a handle that can go up and down that the driver can reach from the seat.

Can somebody enlighten me on how this is supposed to work, and why there is back and forth play in the hitch?

Randy in pa

The handle at back, being the one large enough to put your full hand in D is designed to adjust your draft control. Another item to watch is just how well that draft control works after all these years. That system was IH's introduction into draft control, it saw great improvments in the 10 years that followed.

You didn't say whether you are going to use a 3 point plow or 2 point fast hitch plow. The hitch was designed for the fast hitch plow. Just not sure how well a 3 point plow will work. It may take a bit of tinkering.

IT is making a little more sense. I will look at it closer today.

Thanks

Randy

Dosent seem like it does much.

I am actually going to move snow with a rear blade and not plow fields, so I am tring to get all the play out of the hitch. Some one has disconnected the draft control and flopped the hitch upside down for some reason, and now the wishbone has a few inches back and forth play.

I was just going to weld a block of steel in it to keep it from moving, to get the rest of the play out of the hitch.

I can imagine this hurting anything, do you?

Thanks

Randy

The fact that it's assembled incorrectly may be the reason for all the play. Welding stuff to it willy-nilly will probably make the hitch useless for its original intention.

Thanks

Randy