Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 21, 2008 at 14:58:06 from (209.226.106.100):
In Reply to: Re: Why didn't posted by Pete1468 on September 21, 2008 at 06:53:25:
Pete: And John Deere probably bless that day at every shareholder meeting. World wide, Ferguson had won the hitch war before IH sold it's first fast hitch in 1953. Even back then, both IH and Deere were equiping tractors built for the European market with factory 3 point hitches.
The thing that killed fast hitch was not having an independadnt drawbar like 656 or 706 and tractor design. You can not get mounted implement lift clearence with operator sitting directly above the drawbar, doesn't matter whether it's fast hitch or 3 point hitch. I remember a neighbor with a Cockshutt 30, 3 point hitch with plow. Raised the plow was still draging on the ground. I've seen the same on 300, 350, etc. fast hitch plows. you might be able to drag trailer plow that way, but sooner or later these damn mounted plows draging on the ground in raised position, will hang you up.
I've never had anything to do with fast hitches on 656, 706, 806, etc., I suspect they were better, however I can tell you my 656 3 point hitch carried the semi-mount plow 18" off the ground in raised position.
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