Couldn't believe it

Stephen Newell · Apr 8, 2021

I went to tractor supply yesterday to get a top link for my tractor. They sold a county line brand top link. I got to looking at it and the leverage rod was just taped to the link. It had been crimped on both ends already. I measured the hole and the rod and both were 1/2 but the ends were 9/16 so I put it back and didn't get it. Then I get online this morning to find out how you put a 9/16 rod through a 1/2 hole and find out you just force it through with a big hammer. It looks like one end should be threaded with a cap. I can't believe they resort to factory made jury rigging.

Bob N.Y. · Apr 8, 2021

I have 3 of them and they are all the same. I got the first one over 30 years ago.

rrlund · Apr 8, 2021

Dunnville Kentucky. America's answer to China made. LOL

Richard G. · Apr 8, 2021

They get more in the shipping box that way.
Just drive it through and use it.
Got several like that.

grandpa Love · Apr 8, 2021

Pop it through with a hammer. No issues on ours.....

Case Nutty 1660 · Apr 8, 2021

been built that way on some aftermarket units for many decades I have a couple of them they work fine

Janicholson · Apr 8, 2021

Or a spring loaded button, or a pin clip, or a folding lever/handle. I just imagine that rod vibrating out of the hole and then sticking out of the sidewall of a rear tire (inside dual). Jim

1948CaseVAI · Apr 8, 2021

Every manufacturer has to economize when and where they can and in this case there is no harm. You could have bought it then and saved the return trip to get it now.

sandcastle1 · Apr 8, 2021

I have 3 or 4 like that here. They have been making them that way for over 20 years.

miner09 · Apr 8, 2021

Yes and they will come out while using it.

DeltaSteve · Apr 8, 2021

I have several. Not just 'County Line'. Just smack it in with a 'BFH'. Have never lost one. If they made them more 'complicated',the price would be much higher.It's called economiseing.Tisco or some other manufacturer makes em all and sells/markets them to everyone else.

johnofnewhaven · Apr 8, 2021

I have 3 like that now and have had several over the years. Never had one fall out.

DownNDirty · Apr 8, 2021

They've been made that way a long time. I remember working in parts at a dealer in 1999 and having to hammer them home.

SVcummins · Apr 8, 2021

Drive it through lay it the handle on solid piece of metal and smack it a couple times with a big hammer and smash the end flat

showcrop · Apr 8, 2021

I have 2-3 of those. no problems.

Ken Macfarlane · Apr 8, 2021

You mean from driving over it? There's hundreds of broken rake, tedder and pickup teeth scattered around our farm and knock on wood, never find them with a tire.

Stephen Newell · Apr 8, 2021

I was hoping I could find one already assembled. The one that came with the tractor wasn't done that way but it's around 35 years old.

oldwrencher · Apr 8, 2021

I have three that style , no rods left, one of these days will fix

Stephen Newell · Apr 8, 2021

I went ahead and bought the TSC top link and installed the rod. Where it went through enlarged the hole where the crimp on the rod almost goes through. I took an old bolt and hammered the metal down to make it less likely to fall out. Still don't like the design. Would have rather paid a little more for the link if they had put it through the hole and then crimped the rod.

Janicholson · Apr 8, 2021

I am lucky, no issues, my uncle could find a spike tooth drag spike from 30 feet into the woods next to a tree, and get it stuck in a tire. He also found rake teeth, and disk blade fragments. Jim

showcrop · Apr 9, 2021

(quoted from post at 17:14:19 04/08/21) I went ahead and bought the TSC top link and installed the rod. Where it went through enlarged the hole where the crimp on the rod almost goes through. I took an old bolt and hammered the metal down to make it less likely to fall out. Still don't like the design. Would have rather paid a little more for the link if they had put it through the hole and then crimped the rod.

Stephen, what you are looking for is an OEM top link. Pay a little more at any tractor dealer. $200.00-$300.00. They will be happy to sell you what you want. No need to go slumming at TSC

caterpillar guy · Apr 9, 2021

Heat end round some then push through by hand then reflaten to keep it in hole. Solved. Or grind some off then flatten again to keep in or weld a nut on to hold it in.

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