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I am thinking a fifth wheel type of hitch for the back of the disk or field cultivator to pull a packer. This would be to make it easier to do alone. Pros and cons hear would be great. Mine is the dust and wear. I am thinking like a smaller model of on a semi like the camper crowd would use. This would be on 30 foot or so equipment. This instead of working getting a draw pin in a hole.
 
Make a gooseneck hitch for the packer and use a 2 5/16 ball on the disk/cultivator. Then just a regular female gooseneck receiver for the packer. This will allow it to not only turn but pivot side to side. A fifth wheel type hitch does not allow side tilt/twist. So crossing ditch at an angle would stress the hitch. You can also turn shorter on the ends if you make your hitch arch long enough.

I made a hitch like this in the 1980s to pull my JD 8300 drill behind a cutlimulcher. Made it a single pass tool. Really made running soybeans nice with the smooth ground.
 
JD I was looking to have more tolerance for error when backing in to hitch up. The reason for the fifth wheel deal. The ball has to be about right on. I was looking at some of the RV type ones they have a sideways flexibility to them also. Not sure just what to do. I am the lone labor a lot of the time.
 
Look at the Quick bite couplers. I have several of them and I love them. They make hooking up by yourself easy. You back into them and they auto latch.


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I'm not sure they will stand up to the kind of pull you can get with 30' equipment, certainly would need fabricated mounts and likely strengthened pivots. JD seller's idea of a ball mounted where you can see it would allow you to maneuver under it and raise into it.
 
We had a 2 5/16 ball on the vibra shank and a coupler on the drill it works good and a lot easier to hook up than a draw pin
 
Well, I can see some fabrication on the packer hitch to funnel the receiver with a fold down leg to hold it up, and to align it onto a ball mounted on the disc harrow as JD said.------------Loren
 
A fifth wheel hitch for a camper typically has around a 14,000# capacity. Likely wouldn't stand up for what you want to do.
 
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