getting a ball hitch to fit on a three point tract

Is there such an attachment out there or does anyone have a picture of one?

Jim,
I found and purchased this one on Ebay in the spring of this year. It accepts any 2 inch receiver item, and as can be seen in the picture it has a drop hitch in it. I also put my 2 5/16 ball mount on it as well as a hook. I paid under 100 bucks for it delivered to the house, but the unfortunatly the man no longer makes them to sell. This one is well made, and I have seen some similar to this on Ebay since. The only other place I saw one was at Northern Tools. Their address is www.northerntool.com
I will include a link to one they sell for cat 2 and 3 here. They show one in the catalog for a cat 1, but I can"t find it on the web site right now. It"s 200 bucks which is why I bought the one on Ebay.
If you have a welder, there is no reason you can"t make your own. You could even buy just the receiver part and take it to a welder with some dimmensions and have one made cheaper than Northern wants for theirs, just a thought.
HTH, George

• Northern Tools Cat 2/3 receiver hitch

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By the way, I use it to move almost everything around here including the the equipment trailer, the 28 foot travel trailer and an occasional car or sand toy. The best part, you don't have to get off the tractor to hook it up if it has enough tongue weight. Just back under the coupler, lift and go. Very handy.

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Here's a diagram (robbed from SpeeCo's website) of a drawbar lock. The oblong opening is where the end of your 11 hole drawbar goes. The other part of the lock clamps to your lift arm. The keeps the drawbar from rotating.

Then you just bolt the appropriate size ball to one of the holes in the drawbar and you're ready to go.

You can go the other route also as pictured by Tim, but then you have to crank the trailer up and down to hook it up. With the 11 hole drawbar you can just back up to the trailer with the 3 point lift down, then when you're under the hitch of the trailer, lift up on the touch control to hook up the trailer.

You'll probably have to go to TSC to get the lock. I think SpeeCo only sells wholesale to dealers, but I could be wrong.

• Drawbar lock on SpeeCo website

The set up Tim Ok shows below with a pair of the stabilizing arms described above would be best.

Otherwise a little bit of iron and some quality time in the shop will get you fixed up.

jt

I pull very heavy Vermeer chipper that way

Something like this?? You can throw a trailer ball on a drawbar for quick and easy..add an a-frame that bolts to 11 hole type drawbar and attaches to top link for a better hitch or do something like this..you can buy these from northern tool,ebay or other places.. I built this one to accept a hay spike,I can put a hitch in the bottom one to pull trailers or use my carry-all,put the hitch in the top hole and move my gooseneck trailers around with it..very handy tool..

Tim

I'll add mine... This is real simple to build, two pieices of angle iron, and one piece of square tube. I drilled a hole in the tube for the ball hitch so I could change out for a differnt size if I wanted to. The pins on the end are from Tractor Supply, about $1.50 each. Here is a pic off:

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