Quick hitch

randyrenfro7 · Mar 27, 2020

What are y'alls opinions on a 3 point quick hitch? Both Cat 1 and Cat 2. The older I get the less I enjoy getting on and off hooking up equipment.

marloweg · Mar 27, 2020

love mine sets it Imp.back a little farther back

Traditional Farmer · Mar 27, 2020

Either that or get a tractor for every implement,works for me.

Tony in SD · Mar 27, 2020

I planned ahead and bought one 20 years age anticipating the need. Now I wouldn?t be without. I?ve had to modify a few implements to accept the top link and as has been mentioned it will set your implements back a little further. But other than that, It?s worth every dime I paid for it.

Steve in IL · Mar 27, 2020

Like them. But as Tony mentioned, some implements, especially older ones are not designed for them. You?ll need the lower pins to be at a specific width, and have clearance for coupler to engage. And you?ll need to top link to generally stick forward, enabling hook to catch the pin. For example, A Deere 350 sickle bar mower... Lower pins are too close, and top link pin is too far back. Deere does make an adaptor... But that?s just more $!

Steve in IL · Mar 27, 2020

Here?s a photo of the adapter for the Deere 350...

Ray IN · Mar 27, 2020

I could not operate without them. I have four tractors with quick hitches and I have a lot of small equipment for produce production such as cultivators, 2 row planter, water setter, plastic layer, tiller, disk, box blade, bushhog, sprayer, etc. I use cat.I quick hitches and they work well with almost any implement, but I have had to make some minor modifications to some. Mostly by putting extensions on so the mounting pins can be moved forward a little. You just have to sometimes lengthen or shorten the third link to help them slide on and off easily. Sometimes setting the equipment down on strategically placed 2x4 block will help keep it at the proper angle for ease of attachment/detachment. On a couple of pieces, the top hook does not fit, but there is a pivoting flip-over extension to the top link that comes with some of the quick hitches which makes it work and is almost as easy to hook up. Sometimes I will have to use four or five different implements on the same tractor and quick hitches make this possible for me.

bfullmer · Mar 27, 2020

Be careful of using with a brush hog you might need a longer pto shaft I learned the hard way

John in Mich · Mar 27, 2020

...and one key fits all. Ran out of space in the barn so I have had to reduce the fleet. I also reduced the the amount of land so I have also reduced the number of implements.

Leroy · Mar 27, 2020

Years ago at work they had one I had to use. HATED THAT THING SO BAD I DECIDED I WOULD NEVER OWN ONE, Impossible to get thru it to hook up a pto shaft.

coshoo · Mar 27, 2020

TF, that's exactly what the Japanese and Filipino truck farmers around Tacoma and Puyallup, Washington did, before urbanization ran them out of business (poor guys, wound up selling their 10-20 acre farms for a million or two). They would have 8-10 tractors, more or less, with various implement mounted, so they didn't have to change them. I worked with several of them when I was with PCA, and one had a funny story- most had Farmall Super A's, but a few had Allis Chalmers G's. He said the Farmall guys teased the G guys about their "funny little tractors", but when the sold out, the joke was on them. While the farmall guys were struggling to get $1,000 apiece for their A's, the G guys were getting $3,000 plus for theirs.

ztrmowers · Mar 27, 2020

work fine for the heavy stuff especially, not all equipment will fit them ( but can be made to if want) and the pto some times has to be changed little,due to moves everything back 4-6 inches. if everything is setup for them you will never be without.

sandel · Mar 27, 2020

If you worked for PCA you go back a ways. I started with them in Ks in 1975. How about you?

Texasmark1 · Mar 27, 2020

I use Pat's because none of my implements are setup on a prescribed (standard) dimension. The secret is the spacer rod, connecting the two sides. Back up to your implement without touching the pins. Set the spacer bar to your desired width, back into the implements, contacting the pin to the Pat's, continue to push till both pins are lined up in the hooks, lift slightly, get out/off and drop your spring loaded locks, remove your spacer bar, connect your PTO shaft for PTO implements, connect and adjust your top link and away you go.

sandel · Mar 27, 2020

Guess I should have captioned that the post was specific to coshoo.

Hobo,NC · Mar 27, 2020

I like my Pats, a friend of mine went with pat's knock offs from TSC they were around $80 they are pure junk don't go there they broke the first time he used them... All the one star review's are right (They break) I think they just used glue to combine the iron ore...

Fordy20 · Mar 27, 2020

Unless you have a hydraulic top link, you?re still going to be getting on and off to adjust the top link so you can either hook up or unhook unless your ground is perfectly level and you park in the exact same place. Given a choice, I would far rather have a hydraulic top link than a quick hitch. But the two of them together are awesome.

Also, some equipment will need to be modified as the location of the top hook On the quick hitch will be about 4 inches lower than some equipment. The picture of my grader shows both locations, the bottom being the one that works with a quick hitch.

DoubleR · Mar 27, 2020

I use the Pat's system on my bigger tractor which works ok after a couple of modifications. I like the ability to adjust the width. I ended up buying a longer top link though to accommodate the couple of inches farther out the equipment mounts. My hydraulic top link is too short in some applications. My smaller tractors its just as easy to move the equipment around to line things up when hooking.

Tractorcedric · Mar 27, 2020

I agree with Traditional Farmer, Just have a tractor for every implement!

Texasmark1 · Mar 28, 2020

Same here on added length. Years ago I needed to add some length to a top link so I cut the barrel in half on one of mine and took 2 pieces of 2" angle iron and welded them to the halves once the desired dimension was determined. Worked like a champ and I still use it.

randyrenfro7 · Mar 29, 2020

Thank you all for your input. Looks like it can be almost as difficult as doing it the old way. I may try a CAT 1 on a smaller tractor. I really like the idea of a tractor for each, but then I'll have all those tractors with dead batteries, won't start and flat tires.LOL

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