3 pt hitchs

Robin Hood · Mar 31, 2011

Can anyone give me an idea on what it would cost to hang a 2 or 3 pt hitch on C and/or M? I'm going to a sale this weekend where there are 2 decent tractors for sale, but neither have a hitch which I need.

Thanks

rustyfarmall · Mar 31, 2011

Brand new will run about $1,200, and you still need to buy a cylinder or two.

sflem849 · Mar 31, 2011

...I'm going to a sale this weekend where there are 2 decent tractors for sale, but neither have a hitch which I need.

Thanks

Then you are better off to buy a different tractor...I could go into live hydraulics and draft control and down pressure and all that jazz.

old · Mar 31, 2011

Well if your any good doing metal fab work it can be done for $200 of so if you have the steel on hand and buy a cylinder and a pair of 3 point arms. I have built a couple from the ground up over the years but I had the 3 point arms from dead tractor and have hyd cylinders laying around. First one I ever did was on an Oliver 77 looks bad but work good but I did that 15 plus years ago

NDS · Mar 31, 2011

Go to....saginawcountytractor.com....they have complete hitch including cylinders for $725 it is heavy so shipping will not be cheap. Most everyone agrees they have best aftermarket hitch. I have one on M over 30 years old, hitch was used for commercial farming for several years and was overloaded and abused but is still in excellent condition. Hitch works good for anything that does not need draft control, for things like moldboard plow it is not so hot.

Robin Hood · Mar 31, 2011

Thank you for the info, appreciate it muchly

George Rausch · Mar 31, 2011

Get a heavy duty one. My H twisted a medium-duty 3-point hitch up after a few years, and I had it taken apart and re-welded for about $250 some time ago. My experience is whatever you have wil get used to the max., to where the tarctor bogs down.

NDS · Mar 31, 2011

Saginaw does not show hitch for C on their web site but they do (or at least did) have one.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 31, 2011

I have a good heavy duty one with 2 cylinders that is on my smta that I want to sell if you are anywhere around south dakota

CNKS · Mar 31, 2011

Yes, the factory 3 points are better. The tel-a-depth on my 460 makes the fast hitch much easier to use compared to the Saginaw. But, without one all you can do with a letter series tractor is pull implements. I have two Saginaw 3 points, will eventually have two more. A 3 point allows me to use a bushhog, sprayer, blade, 3 point disk, and drill, used a mounted chisel once. The only thing you need draft control for is plowing. I haven't plowed in several decades. Didn't have draft control then either. In other words it makes a letter series useful.

sflem849 · Mar 31, 2011

(quoted from post at 18:53:28 03/31/11)
Yes, the factory 3 points are better. The tel-a-depth on my 460 makes the fast hitch much easier to use compared to the Saginaw. But, without one all you can do with a letter series tractor is pull implements. I have two Saginaw 3 points, will eventually have two more. A 3 point allows me to use a bushhog, sprayer, blade, 3 point disk, and drill, used a mounted chisel once. The only thing you need draft control for is plowing. I haven't plowed in several decades. Didn't have draft control then either. In other words it makes a letter series useful.

IMO that helps prove my point. The money you would throw into an C/H/M could be used for a 460 and the three point/fast hitch can do even more than a letter series with a rigged up 3 pt. If you are buying from scratch, start with the right thing.

CNKS · Mar 31, 2011

But, I would rather use my Super H with its
"rigged" 3 point Saginaw than my 460 Hi Utility with its Tel a Depth fast hitch. Apple and Orange. You simply need to know how to use the hydraulics.

sflem849 · Apr 1, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:52:39 03/31/11) But, I would rather use my Super H with its
"rigged" 3 point Saginaw than my 460 Hi Utility with its Tel a Depth fast hitch. Apple and Orange. You simply need to know how to use the hydraulics.

Stage II with live hydraulics? That sure helps a layman use the hydraulics. More apples and oranges if one is live and one is not, IMO.

NDS · Apr 1, 2011

I have used Saginaw on cultivators, rotary cutters, scraper blade and boom pole among other things.......that started in mid seventys and we had several less than 5 year old tractors with factory 3 points at the time and I was well pleased with Saginaw.

Ludwig · Apr 1, 2011

Wow, thats a deal. Last time I priced it we were looking at more like $1500.

CNKS · Apr 1, 2011

Live, but I put 5000 hrs on an H in the 50's with dead hyd, did not even know what live hyd were. Works fine without live hyd if you know what you are doing. Modern tractors have spoiled people.

NDS · Apr 1, 2011

That sounded too cheap to me so I called Saginaw and they confirmed price @ $725 and said shipping would be in $200 range. I have heard of people buying hitches for resale and that might be where some of the high prices come from.

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