706 farmall drawbar+3 pnt.

honeycreek · Jun 25, 2008

Hi,

I am looking at purchasing a 706 gasser with a year-around cab and loader. This will basically be used for snow removal. There is the clevis for the toplink on the 3point but would need to get the arms you can plug into the fast hitch to be able to use it as a three point, I have found them on e-bay for $150-200. My real qeusiton is there will be times where I am going to have to pull a gravity box with 220 Bu in it (I'm a corn burner) and currently the only drawbar on it is the kind that plugs into the fast hitch and it is basically a bar that runs between the two arms and has a hole you can put a hitch pin into. It doesn't look like it is very heavy duty and I do not think it would be the safest thing in the world to be pulling 12320# with, but I could be wrong. Was there ever a factory drawbar (seperate from the fast hitch) that I might be able to find in a junkyard? If so would the 706 have the nessasary holes already there to mount it if I did find one. Thanks for your help.

Randy

Don L C · Jun 25, 2008

The fast hitch draw bar looks like a three point draw bar but is turned up on each end and plugs into your fast hitch and snaps in......on a 706 it might be 1" thick.....be sure to get the right one for your tractor......

rustyfarmall · Jun 25, 2008

Yes, there was a drawbar seperate from the fast hitch. Don't the part number, but there should be one for you somewhere.

streaker · Jun 25, 2008

Use the regular drawbar if you can. That is alot of weight behind you, if you stop quick, or back up suddenly the lift arms & anything attached to it would come up. I would use the rigid frame drawbar pulling your wagon. Just my opinion. Should be able to find them in a salvage yard.

GeneMO · Jun 25, 2008

Crawl under the tractor. Look right underneath the very rear of the rear end casting, under the PTO. There should be a drawbar bracket for lack of a better word. Then look mid way under the big rear end housing about in the area of where the step is. There should be holes there for another bracket, if not the actual bracket.

Mine had a solid steel drawbar, very large chunk of steel. A pin goes up through the front bracket and through a hole in the drawbar. The back end fits through and inside the slot created by the back bracket. It is kept from moving side to side by bolts fitted in the rear bracket.

By all means do not pull a wagon with anything attached to the 3 pt. If you have to stop, or go down a hill, the drawbar of the wagon will end up in the back of your head.

not trying to be funny either.

I can send pics of mine when I get home, if you need.

Gene

Randy in NE · Jun 25, 2008

I sent you an email stating that I have the parts cd for the 706 and that I can email you pictures of it. I will be leaving work in about 1/2 hour but will be in around 6:30 CDT tomorrow. Randy

supermpuller · Jun 25, 2008

I pulled 2 or more 225 bu. wagons for years off the fasthich on a 706. You can lock the fasthitch solid by putting the top link of the fast hitch in the brackets on rearend also.

Owen Aaland · Jun 26, 2008

(quoted from post at 12:44:50 06/25/08) Crawl under the tractor. Look right underneath the very rear of the rear end casting, under the PTO. There should be a drawbar bracket for lack of a better word. Then look mid way under the big rear end housing about in the area of where the step is. There should be holes there for another bracket, if not the actual bracket. .......

Gene

Early model 706 did not have provision for the other drawbar on the rear sway control castings. You may have to replace them too if you are going to add the other drawbar.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 26, 2008

i dont think you will like a 706 for a loader tractor the forward and reverse speeds never seem to match up without shifting both gear levers and useing the torque and also i never seen a 706 that shifted gears very smoth

honeycreek · Jun 26, 2008

Thank you all for your advise, I did end up buying the tractor last night (my first). It is mechanically excellent thought it won't win any beauty contest in its current form, I'll have to work on that. I also was concerned with the shifting being inconvient as I grew up driving alot of 66 series Internationals and remeber the shifting being a bear cat on them at times but when I driove this tractor last night it shifted just as smooth as can be (no grinding at all!!!) and it was much better than I had expected. I am going to have to check the junk yards for drawbar parts as you fine gentlemen confirmed what i was thinking, that the fasthitch drawbar for that kind of wieght would just not be safe. Any other advise or wisdom you fellas can share with me I would apperciate. Thanks again

the tractor vet · Jun 26, 2008

You keep the clutch linkage , dump valve and transmission brake in adjustment and it will shift fine , but let it get out of wack then you will be cussen at it . My 806 has fast hitch and also a draw bar i can go either way with mine . my buddys 806 only has the fast hitch and when we tow heavy load or use it for PTO operation then we remove the lift arms from the rock shaft and pin them soild on the brackets of the rearend housing . This way if someone movers the hitcvh control i don't have to replace the PTO output shaft .

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