Christmas came early!

Fatjay · Dec 21, 2016

Not bad for $55. Bought one for myself and one for my father off ebay.

Geo-TH,In · Dec 22, 2016

Trying to figure out exactly what Santa brought you . Is it a 3pt attachment
with different size balls to pull a trailer? Hard to guess what it is with what
appears to be balls still gift wrapped.

OldFarmall450 · Dec 22, 2016

Ok, someone has to ask and I'll bite.....what is it?

caterpillar guy · Dec 22, 2016

Looks like a 3pt receiver hitch for his tractor.

Mark - IN. · Dec 22, 2016

Your father must move trailers around with his tractor. When I was a kid, Skyline Mobile Homes used to have an 8N that they pulled completed mobile homes off of the assembly line to take out back and park for cleanup and then delivery to wherever in the country. Man, the fella driving that little N used to dump the clutch, lift the front end on that N because of the weight of a 14'x70' mobile home, and take off. These days travel trailer plants use huge MFWD Deeres to do the same thing with 30' travel trailers. Looks to me that your father moves or will be moving trailers around with that 3-Point receiver. I suppose that $55 is a good price. Can't tell by the picture, but looks like Cat 1 for a compact tractor?

Tell him good luck from me, and to use it safe. Oh, tell him Merry Christmas from me and the rest on YT. Same to you, Santa.

Mark

Mike M · Dec 22, 2016

An 8N moving a 14x70 ? Wonder how big a stack of weight was on the front ?

RobCons · Dec 22, 2016

Great buy for $55. I have one I made and use it all the time. I have the clevis hooks for chain on the side of mine so you can just wrap a chain around a log, tree, etc then drop it into the hooks. Works great. I see them advertised for over $100 lots.

rbhuntn · Dec 22, 2016

I have a trailer mover for my tractor and will say it has been very handy. Makes moving the bumper pull and gooseneck trailers are breeze.

Adirondack case guy · Dec 22, 2016

I was thinking the same. We sold a Case 1030 to a local modular home dealer. It needed a full rack of front weights on it.
Loren

Kansas4010 · Dec 22, 2016

I use one like this on my little compact
utility.

Fatjay · Dec 22, 2016

Yes, it's a receiver cat 1 2" receiver for his kubota b7200 and my kubota b8200.

Lifting trailers onto the ball, or cranking up/down for the support is hard on him. This way he can lower the 3pt, back up under it, raise, and be attached.

He's been messing with attaching a ball to the back via a half inch steel piece, but when he turns he can jacknife the trailer on the tires just with normal turning since it's so close. This will let him easily put a ball on and he won't have to worry about turning to hard and running the trailer into the rear tire.

Fatjay · Dec 22, 2016

The trailers are kept out in the back, he has a 5x8 and a 6x14, and would use his tractor to retrieve them instead of taking his truck back and ruining the grass. He brings home a ton of mulch in the 5x8 for my mother in the spring, and moves it about with his kubota.

Myself, I have a 6x14 i bring wood for the stove around back of the house and I can get the trailer in position nicely with the tractor, but again with the jackknife issue. I also haul brush, and it's easy to move around the yard with a tractor.

Mark - IN. · Dec 22, 2016

None. Back then he didn't even have a setup like this. His was a drawbar across the lift arms with a hitch ball. Back then, they used IH 1700, 1800, 1900, and 2050's to deliver/tote them. The completed mobile homes had a castor on the front jack on the A-frame. he used to back up to them, lift his his balled arms into the hitch, lift the trailer, let it rip. The 12'x60' mobile homes were no big deal, but when they started building 14'x70' mobile homes, the front end of the N leaped off the ground every time, tires bouncing the whole time until he'd drop them out back of the side by side plants. No weights any time I ever saw home go. That was about 1973 or so. Now, I see huge MFWDs for 30' travel trailers...a place off of US20 and Indiana SR13 in Middlebury has two of them that they use...$$$

Mark

Mark - IN. · Dec 22, 2016

I don't know. Never saw weights on the N front or back. It handled them. The big guys had the front end dribbling like a basketball. It moved the 12'x60' jobs around with ease, road gear off of the line. The big trailers I'm thinking 1st or maybe 2nd gear, because his front end bounced non-stop. Maybe they had the tires filled, but five days a week that N moved them around. It was a black fella and his N and they really hustled all day long, and he wasn't afraid to ride any of it out. Much, much, much smaller than a 1030.

Mark

Geo-TH,In · Dec 22, 2016

BIL removed front bucket on His JD and put a ball on front of tractor. He used
his tractor to launch and pull boats out of a lake. He has a boat storage and
boat ramp. He likes to look forward while backing boats down ramp.

I used scrap metal to make a ball and hitch for my Jubilee. Only cost welding
rods. Had ball and scrap metal. If I flip it around then I can use a hitch.

If I just want to move an empty trailer, I use front bucket and connect a
safety chain to chain hook on bucket. Like BIL, I like looking forward when
moving a trailer.
geo.

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