Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 21, 2008 at 18:47:28 from (209.226.106.82):
In Reply to: Re: Why didn't posted by Pete1468 on September 21, 2008 at 17:37:43:
Pete: I put 11,000 hours on my 560D, probably 500 hours of that on loader work and 9,000 hours of it without the fast hitch. As I said before I cut the fast hitch up for scrap at around 2,000 hours. Probably 50% of my work was on PTO implements like haybine, baler and forage harvester. In my opinion and for field work that fast hitch wasn't worth a tinkers damn.
I put 15,000 hours on my 656D, 3 point hitch, 98% of that was field work. I might add, I had very little mounted equipment, in the early days fast hitch corn planter, always had a 200 gal 3 point hitch sprayer and after I got 656 a seni-mounted plow.
If your looking for a good hitch, hooking and unhitching trailers or wagons a lot, we have on the east coast what is called a pickup hitch, and they make models for most 3 point hitch tractors. Basically it's a pintle type hitch lowers to the ground, with a V type receiver in case one is off couple inches. It raises to top under a big heavy plate and has a latch to take the weight. The only thing one must remove is drawbar tongue, top plate fits in same as drawbar. The pintle comes up probably 3" behind drawbar crossbar. Trailers or wagons have a pad under the tongue. A friend of mine has this on two of his 80 hp Deeres. He uses these on 20' tandem dump trailers for hauling silage from field. He has a set of tandem wheels on back of his forage harvester with same hitch. He fabricated the the harvester tandem undercarriage. The system is fast, I doubt if it takes them 60 seconds to change trailers in field. He said if he could figure out a quick hitch for trailer hydraulic hoses, the guy pulling trailers would never have to get out of the seat. Because these hitch so close to tractor rear end, front end weight even with big trailers is never a problem. One does not have to remove this for feild work only switch top plate for drawbar tongue.
I see a guy using one of these on potato harvest trailers. He uses tractors for pulling trailers alongside harvester, pulls them to road side where a single axle highway tractor with same hitch takes them to warehouse.
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