The quick hitch adapter is meant to be attached over the top of the quick hitch and pinned in place with your long top link pin. That's why the yoke is so wide on the adapter, so it straddles the top of the quick hitch. Then it just swivels down and you use a normal pin on the implement end like you did. If you have clearance, you should be able to leave the top hook in place. My buddy has a similar hitch and we swapped the bolts that hold the top hook on with pins.
Well, now I feel dumb. LOL But seriously, thank you for this information! I picked up the adapter locally after hearing about it on another video (showing it the wrong way like I did in this video) and didn't think about it. Guess what I'm doing tomorrow!! :)
I'm glad you explained this. I just got a Speeco and realize I need the QH adapter. the adapter is needed for all rotary cutters. Never gonna have clearance to pickup with the hook and really for a rotary cutter you want it pinned at the top, not just resting in a hook on top. big enough stump combined with uneven land using the hook could mean disaster. The hook is perfect for pretty much everything else though that isnt meant to flex. Whats annoying is that Amazon has pictures of it installed incorrectly. If you just move the rotary cutter then thats no problem but its still installed wrong.
Hi. I'm fairly new to tractors and I have a question I cant seem to find an answer for. Hoping someone can help. I have a ford 3600. It has a similar top link setup. You dont have a pin in the lowest hole. Mine didnt either. Im wondering why not, what that hole is for, and when i should use a pin there? Thanks.
Hi Sam Never knew watching someone working on their old tractor could be so much fun😃 It's because your comedic nature automatically incorporates itself into whatever you do. And still we are able to make some sense of what you're doing😃 Enjoy seeing the old tractor. Thanks for giving it new life and hopefully many more years to come. I like how you and Angela show the ups, downs, good, and bad of your life. Wishing everyone at GAH the best of success, good health and safety
Everything’s fun with Sam and Angela! Well . . . okay . . . ALMOST everything’s fun with Sam and Angela! And if it’s nothing t fun, it’s not their fault. ❤
Have an additional suggestion --- DO NOT use the adapter with top hook "it is one or the other. To use adapter "Remove Top Hook" put adapter single bar end in top hole of brush hog then use forked end of adapter to quick hitch at same holes with top link adjustment bar. Removes over length and extra pivit points.
🤣🤣 My husband turned 69 in Jan. and I turn 66 in 15 days. Our favorite phrase these days is "WHY can't things be easy??? WHY does everything have to be so hard??" And you guys are half our age...gives you something to look forward to doesn't it??
I love how you are down-to-earth and real. You don't try to be something you are not. I think that speaks volumes about you and your family. And your bloopers at the end just even prove it more. You all can be very funny and I like that in your channel.
Thank you very much for this comment. It's very easy to feel pressure from seeing other channels that are more successful than us to be something different. It's good to hear our persistence to be ourselves and trust we will find people who like us for us, can pay off too. :)
I️ just recently bought the Speedco cat 1 quick hitch for my JD 4044M. One thing I️ saw you do was to disengage the latches before you connected to each implement. I️ watched videos on how to attach implements, and the speedco allows you to leave those latches in the locked position and as you raise the quick hitch, the pins push back the latch locks and snap back into the locked position once in place. I️ hope this small piece of advice helps reduce the number of times us bigger guys have to mount and dismount the tractors!
We learn together Sam. I have at times bought items where there seems to be an assumption that whoever is buying their product already knows how to install it, thus either know instructions or instructions that are not so good
It looks like if you take the Extension off and then take the square stock off and Take those support brackets coming from back of mower to where Square stock bolted on. It will stay out with those Flat stock coming from back of mower. You may need different bolts one for each bar. Bolt it where that Square stock bolted. That's in the way of upper quick mount..Just a suggestion .
Never seen a mower with the support arms that move like that. I’ve only seen the auto adjust as I will call it on the top link hookup. If he drilled another hole and made those braces solid than I bet it would work just fine. It would just shift the give to the adapter.
I have had great luck with the Pat’s Easy Hitch system. It is different, yet similar to other quick hitches. I have not found any implement that I cannot hook to. Maybe not for everyone, but I love it! Thanks for the great video!! Always enjoyable!
I second Pat's easy hitch. I'm a 68 year old female, and it allows me to hook/unhook my tiller, box blade and cultivator by myself. I needed a zero-effort solution.
Hey, idea about rotary cutter... Move square tube to top holes where you attach top link to and attach pin in bottom hole... Then just pick it up??? Worth 30 min to try
I have used the TSC Q/H and I can appreciate the convenience when using Q/H compatible equipment.. However, using it with my land pride finish mower is a pain. The lift arms are no problem to hook up, but the top link no. The Q/H changes the geometry to the point that that the back of the mower is droopy and I had to go with the extender. The finish mower floats on the four wheels so there has to be some slop in that link. Also the drive shaft can get in a bind if I let the mower down all the way, so I have learned to elevate the front of the deck a bit as to not destroy the drive shaft. Now, after all that I have developed a crick in my neck so it is difficult the be able to visualize hooking up. Once i got the Q/H adjusted, I like it fine except for mower deck. I found a smaller version @ harbor freight that works well on my dad's old dearborn implements. Of course, looking back @ implement history, there was no compatibility what so ever, so I glad there is some now, thanks , great video ...
Oh my goodness Sam, you are quite amazing at the work you are capable of accomplishing, this was quite the video to watch, I was very impressed. thanks so much for sharing and I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend, stay safe and happy sending love and hugs, bye! 🤗😍👋👍🙏💜💜💜💜
This video was very timely,today is FFA drive your tractor to school day! We had 22 young men drive tractors to school this morning ,the temperature was 19 degrees!
I do believe that little black chunk of steel you're speaking of... Is designed for mowers to follow the contour of the ground... Not really an adapter for your quick hitch 👍
I, being of a "certain age" now, have been thinking of this system. Thanks for doing all the brain work and for other subscribers for ironing out the frustrating parts. I love my Kubota and doing all things small farm tractor worthy, like keeping the long gravel driveway in good shape, moving manure, mowing tall grasses and brush and moving hay.
When my son's were little they would have loved this video! Have you ever considered a channel of just farm equipment and cool tools aimed at kids? I am serious! You could recycle your new footage or even past footage to make it less of a chore. Thank you for sharing. Take care!
I was looking at the yoke on the brush cutter, and am wondering if you can move the bar from the lower hole in the yoke and put it in the top hole where you had the adapter assembly, then put the adapter assembly in the lower hole, which will keep it from pivoting down too far to catch the universal hook assembly, it's worth a try!!, great video!
Thanks for including us in testing this equipment. Brian Carpenter who responded to you before I did seems to have some experience with a quick hitch adapter. Love your channel, love you and your family, thanks again.
I have multiple implements that are not QH compatible so I’ve ditched the bolts on the hook for quick pins that I can pull and adjust without unbolting then rebolting the hook. I can move the hook in 20 seconds.
Sam I've never used a quick hitch except for on bigger tractors (Cat 2 and 3). If that cutter is Agri X (which I think you said it is), it's made by Darrell Harp Enterprises in Alabama. Give them a call and see what they say. I've never seen a square bar in that particular location... definitely unique! Hope the old Ford gives you many years of good service!
Honestly I LOVE watching your channel! You make me smile or outright belly laugh sometimes with the bloopers at the ends, but it’s the love and sense of family that always comes forth that keeps me watching. Thanks for letting me be one of your “family friends” vicariously through your videos. Happy Spring to y’all from SE Missouri 👋🏻🧑🏻🦳
For years I used a 1956 Ford 640. Pretty much for brush-hogging and firewood shagging. When I retired my wife bought me a John Deere 1025R with 59 hours on it. First thing I added was a SpeeCo e-Hitch. So much easier to swap out three-point attachments. The rigid stabilizer arms of the Ford I do not miss. I do have to move the top hook on the SpeeCo frequently so I got a set of clevis pins to make that easier.
Although this was about the speeco quick hitch, I noticed how many turns it took for you to start your tractor. Given you're in a t shirt I'm assuming it's some what mild Temps out. It would be advisable to get yourself an ignition tune up kit so your not working your starter to death trying to turn the engine over. Yesterday's tractor or stieners tractor have tune up kits for about 40 bucks. They include a set of plug wires, points, dust cover, coil, and condenser for the distributor, as well as a new set of autolite plugs. The other scenario if you have done this already, then you may need to adjust your choke, to allow it to restrict air flow to increase fuel for better combustion on start ups. On a separate note on your clutch situation and how you said your either going or not going. Although this isn't ideal to be doing all the time, but you actually have the ability to let the clutch slip. It's okay to do this when you need to creep and ease into implement hook up. You will just have to have more finesse as the "release" of your clutch. Granted yes your throw out bearing is working harder, but it beats crashing in to stuff 😅 Anyway just a bit of advice from a guy who owns a 1969 ford 3000
I manually roll my Ford 1920 all the time when hooking up implements. I do find that, in addition to having it in neutral of course, disengaging the range selector helps considerably. And admittedly I’m doing it in a barn with a level cement floor. But the older and fatter I get, rolling it becomes easier than climbing up and down onto it to move it under power.
Does this model of quick hit REQUIRE you to move the levers to connect? They should be spring loaded to snap into place, when you pick up on the implement. To take it off, yeah, flip them over to get the wedge out of the way, but for hooking up, you should be able to just go under it and lift up and here 1 or 2 clanks when the pins drop into place freeing up the locks.
Remove the adapter. Move rear deck support bendable bars to top hole of A frame ( may have to "fudge the travel") then put bolt with bushing in lower hole to catch hook.
I have a tractor and bought a quick hitch. I am 77 with hands that don't like to cooperate with me. I wanted to be able to hook up my implements by myself but found the quick hitch to be a disappointment. My son comes up and changes out my implements and he said it sure helped him. I have a problem attaching the PTO too and am trying to figure that one out. I have small hands so have troubles pushing in the spring pins.
Hopefully you’ll be able to fabricate something to make it work! Took me 1 attempt to put on an attachment without a quick hitch. I do not have the strength nor the patience for that. I bought a harbor freight quick hitch and it’s been in use for about 4 years now. I use a tiller, box blade, and brush hog on my JD 3032e.
Because I wasn’t happy with the quick attach. I have started leaving top link off when mowing! I put at chain in for top link to pick up mower for roading!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸
on the rotary cutter top mount switch places with the square pivot tube and the hitch pin top to bottom the pin connector is now unhindered ,,, problem solved.
I removed my Pat’s quick hitch and went to Rural King quick hitch because it is a lot easier to install and remove for those implements that won’t fit or can’t be used on a quick hitch. No bolts or shims and no more turn buckles for the most part
Awesome and you’ll learn to love it when it works and hate it when it doesn’t. I grew up on a farm without them and later we got them. Good level flat ground and it was usually good. Iwe had multiple tractors of different size and hitches were different widths and categories. Ground would settle and cause the implements to change angles. It was always something to make it fun. But we could usually get the top hook to go and pull it to the correct spot. On your cutter move your bar that goes to rest to the top pin hole and and a bolt /bushing to bottom like your grader blade. Or using the bottom hole mount the bar to rear on the outside by welding ears on it. Also your lower pins on the cutter need to have a “head” on the outside. Once you get all equip set up for the hitch it will work fine and great.
No idea if this is possible, but if it is, you can try flipping the adjustable quick hitch back, connecting the bottom, then flipping the quick hitch back over to connect. I don't know, something I would try though.
On your brush hog. It's hard to tell in the video but could you move your square tube with the joint to the top hole where the 3rd link usually sets and then move your pin to the lower hole and capture it with with the quick hitch? Drilling is a little bit easier (and cheaper) then welding and if it doesnt work.... well you were going to have to have some welding done anyways.
My brush hog don't hook up to my quick hitch as well.... but everything else does! And I only use my cutter a couple times a year.... not that big a deal to hook it up..... good luck on your quest!
Hi Sam! I have a Cat 2 3-point so it's a bit different, but I have used a quick-coupler for years... First of all, you need to change out your pins on your implements, because they are different! Secondly, I never used the top link on our rotary mower so the rear wheels stayed on the ground(we had an 8' Deere on Dad's 3020). The quick coupler works, but your implements must be set up for it!
It looks like you might be able to unbolt the square tube and move it up to where your top link pin currently goes. Hard to tell if the top hook on the quick hitch will reach the pin if it's in that bottom hole though.
dont use the top hook on the quick hitch when using that adapter piece. The U shaped end goes over the quick hitch and you run your top pin through that
I debated a quick hitch for my Kubota B2601 and found it didn’t really help me. I’m not in a hurry most of the time and a rubber mallet on the lifting arms works fine for me. I spent the money I saved on lights for snow plowing and late night projects. Better investment
I shared your frustration, I have old implements and had to adapt several to fit. Absolutely worth the effort. A couple tips, I fabricated a double pin with a D handle to replace the two bolts for the top hook which saves a lot of time, and for the bush hog and finish cutter I use a loop of chain on the top link connection and just drop it over the hook. They don’t need to be rigid at the top link, they can give going thru a ditch and still lift the implements. Has worked well for years.
I have a 1968 IH tractor. I use a Cat II quick hitch. It works great on implements that are quick hitch compatiable. Not on implements that are not QH compatiable. I actually remove the QH to use those implements. Not easy (Cat II = much heavier) but the QH makes it so much easier on the ones that it works on. Pat's Easy Hitch might be a better choice for you I actually plan to rebuild the hitches on the implements that are not QH compatiable. Not an easy job, but it will save mounting and dismounting the QH Good luck with your plan. I hope it works for you
So Sam obviously i don’t have a tractor like yours , but I have worked metal a bit. So take with a grain of sand, but what i see the black part that you hooked your adaptor onto…. Instead of the adaptor as you said added a pivot point what if you made side plates that were longer weld them on to the sides with extra holes for adjustments. Then this would reach your top connector with out adding a pivot point and at the same time let you keep the original hole for other tools. I hope you get what I’m trying to say wish I could add a sketch. Any way without not being there may not work ? But you could mock up with plywood just to see if it aligned before committing to cutting expensive metal. Good luck!
This was 9 months ago so you have probably already figured this out. On your mower the top link was in the top hole and a bar from the back was below it. Swap them so the quick hitch hooks in the bottom hole.
Am putting a list of stuff I want to up grade on my tractor or actually thinking of just buying a new one with all the stuff I want know that I have done more research
Great video Sam!! I tried the quick hitch was specco also it hooked up Great to my box blade which is quick hitch compatible but not my other implements. Bought a swivel thing has 2 rings that swivel in middle worked little better but still a pain I sold mine to a friend just do it the hard way till I save enough to buy Pat's easy hitch personally believe that's what you prolly need also. Ask tractor Mike shows those on his channel will hook to any implements. Good luck. Thanks for sharing be safe have fun enjoy ya'lls family time and beautiful homestead
Thinking about installing MR Cool mini splits in our single wide seen you added a fireplace? Can we get a update on your review since you’ve had them for awhile now?
The quick hitch adapter is meant to be attached over the top of the quick hitch and pinned in place with your long top link pin. That's why the yoke is so wide on the adapter, so it straddles the top of the quick hitch. Then it just swivels down and you use a normal pin on the implement end like you did. If you have clearance, you should be able to leave the top hook in place. My buddy has a similar hitch and we swapped the bolts that hold the top hook on with pins.
Well, now I feel dumb. LOL But seriously, thank you for this information! I picked up the adapter locally after hearing about it on another video (showing it the wrong way like I did in this video) and didn't think about it. Guess what I'm doing tomorrow!! :)
@@sam-and-angela Don't worry Sam, none of us know anything until we know it or learn it!!! It only matters that we try to do our best!!
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Did you ever get it to work like Brian said .
I'm glad you explained this. I just got a Speeco and realize I need the QH adapter. the adapter is needed for all rotary cutters. Never gonna have clearance to pickup with the hook and really for a rotary cutter you want it pinned at the top, not just resting in a hook on top. big enough stump combined with uneven land using the hook could mean disaster. The hook is perfect for pretty much everything else though that isnt meant to flex. Whats annoying is that Amazon has pictures of it installed incorrectly. If you just move the rotary cutter then thats no problem but its still installed wrong.
Hi. I'm fairly new to tractors and I have a question I cant seem to find an answer for. Hoping someone can help. I have a ford 3600. It has a similar top link setup. You dont have a pin in the lowest hole. Mine didnt either. Im wondering why not, what that hole is for, and when i should use a pin there? Thanks.
Hi Sam
Never knew watching someone working on their old tractor could be so much fun😃
It's because your comedic nature automatically incorporates itself into whatever you do.
And still we are able to make some sense of what you're doing😃
Enjoy seeing the old tractor. Thanks for giving it new life and hopefully many more years to come.
I like how you and Angela show the ups, downs, good, and bad of your life.
Wishing everyone at GAH the best of success, good health and safety
Everything’s fun with Sam and Angela! Well . . . okay . . . ALMOST everything’s fun with Sam and Angela! And if it’s nothing t fun, it’s not their fault. ❤
Have an additional suggestion --- DO NOT use the adapter with top hook "it is one or the other. To use adapter "Remove Top Hook" put adapter single bar end in top hole of brush hog then use forked end of adapter to quick hitch at same holes with top link adjustment bar. Removes over length and extra pivit points.
This is the answer
🤣🤣 My husband turned 69 in Jan. and I turn 66 in 15 days. Our favorite phrase these days is "WHY can't things be easy??? WHY does everything have to be so hard??" And you guys are half our age...gives you something to look forward to doesn't it??
Ya...I agree as a 72 year old! Like installing WIFI when you grew up in the Underwood era!
Happy birthday, I am also 66 in April.
LOL it's your golden years FUN.
My wife is 66 and I will be 69 in a couple of months. We are always saying that.
We say that as well….71 & 74. Sadly, things keep getting harder as we get older and ‘wiser’
I love how you are down-to-earth and real. You don't try to be something you are not. I think that speaks volumes about you and your family. And your bloopers at the end just even prove it more. You all can be very funny and I like that in your channel.
Thank you very much for this comment. It's very easy to feel pressure from seeing other channels that are more successful than us to be something different. It's good to hear our persistence to be ourselves and trust we will find people who like us for us, can pay off too. :)
Love your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on. May the Lord bless and protect you and your family
Helpful and fun to watch. Thanks
I have no idea what you’re doing but I watched just for fun. 😀
move the square tube to the top hole and pin in the hole were you move the square tube out of
Our family loves your Soaps!!! Thanks!!😇
We're so glad! Thank you!
You will get it done! Hello Angela! Thank you!
I always watch your videos to the end. I admire how diligently you work till you get it right. God bless 😊
I️ just recently bought the Speedco cat 1 quick hitch for my JD 4044M. One thing I️ saw you do was to disengage the latches before you connected to each implement. I️ watched videos on how to attach implements, and the speedco allows you to leave those latches in the locked position and as you raise the quick hitch, the pins push back the latch locks and snap back into the locked position once in place. I️ hope this small piece of advice helps reduce the number of times us bigger guys have to mount and dismount the tractors!
Came here to say this exact thing.
We learn together Sam. I have at times bought items where there seems to be an assumption that whoever is buying their product already knows how to install it, thus either know instructions or instructions that are not so good
It looks like if you take the Extension off and then take the square stock off and Take those support brackets coming from back of mower to where Square stock bolted on. It will stay out with those Flat stock coming from back of mower. You may need different bolts one for each bar. Bolt it where that Square stock bolted. That's in the way of upper quick mount..Just a suggestion .
A man and his tractor. Good job, Sam.
Never seen a mower with the support arms that move like that. I’ve only seen the auto adjust as I will call it on the top link hookup. If he drilled another hole and made those braces solid than I bet it would work just fine. It would just shift the give to the adapter.
I have had great luck with the Pat’s Easy Hitch system. It is different, yet similar to other quick hitches. I have not found any implement that I cannot hook to. Maybe not for everyone, but I love it! Thanks for the great video!! Always enjoyable!
I second Pat's easy hitch. I'm a 68 year old female, and it allows me to hook/unhook my tiller, box blade and cultivator by myself. I needed a zero-effort solution.
3rd ;)
Hey, idea about rotary cutter... Move square tube to top holes where you attach top link to and attach pin in bottom hole... Then just pick it up??? Worth 30 min to try
Sam you are a very good teacher I love how you are hands on I learn way more easier than just telling me I have to see it for myself tyfs hugs
Glad someone was able to help you with the hitch issue. Take care. Hi Angela and boys.
I have used the TSC Q/H and I can appreciate the convenience when using Q/H compatible equipment.. However, using it with my land pride finish mower is a pain. The lift arms are no problem to hook up, but the top link no. The Q/H changes the geometry to the point that that the back of the mower is droopy and I had to go with the extender. The finish mower floats on the four wheels so there has to be some slop in that link. Also the drive shaft can get in a bind if I let the mower down all the way, so I have learned to elevate the front of the deck a bit as to not destroy the drive shaft. Now, after all that I have developed a crick in my neck so it is difficult the be able to visualize hooking up. Once i got the Q/H adjusted, I like it fine except for mower deck. I found a smaller version @ harbor freight that works well on my dad's old dearborn implements. Of course, looking back @ implement history, there was no compatibility what so ever, so I glad there is some now, thanks , great video ...
I don’t even have a tractor but watched all the way thru. If I get a tractor sometime in the future, Sam will be my man, 😉.
Oh my goodness Sam, you are quite amazing at the work you are capable of accomplishing, this was quite the video to watch, I was very impressed. thanks so much for sharing and I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend, stay safe and happy sending love and hugs, bye! 🤗😍👋👍🙏💜💜💜💜
This video was very timely,today is FFA drive your tractor to school day! We had 22 young men drive tractors to school this morning ,the temperature was 19 degrees!
Always Enjoy even if I don't have a clue about anything. Just love watching your channel. Miss Angela & the Boys. Hope you figure it out!!!
I do believe that little black chunk of steel you're speaking of... Is designed for mowers to follow the contour of the ground... Not really an adapter for your quick hitch 👍
I, being of a "certain age" now, have been thinking of this system. Thanks for doing all the brain work and for other subscribers for ironing out the frustrating parts. I love my Kubota and doing all things small farm tractor worthy, like keeping the long gravel driveway in good shape, moving manure, mowing tall grasses and brush and moving hay.
Experience is an excellent teacher-keep up the hard work!
When my son's were little they would have loved this video! Have you ever considered a channel of just farm equipment and cool tools aimed at kids? I am serious! You could recycle your new footage or even past footage to make it less of a chore. Thank you for sharing. Take care!
I was looking at the yoke on the brush cutter, and am wondering if you can move the bar from the lower hole in the yoke and put it in the top hole where you had the adapter assembly, then put the adapter assembly in the lower hole, which will keep it from pivoting down too far to catch the universal hook assembly, it's worth a try!!, great video!
You are on the right track, but put a bushing on a bolt through the lower hole and don't use the adapter it should hook right up
Thanks for including us in testing this equipment. Brian Carpenter who responded to you before I did seems to have some experience with a quick hitch adapter. Love your channel, love you and your family, thanks again.
I absolutely love your videos…real life and nothing is easy!
Always get a kick out of the way you start out your videos👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for the insight! I had almost put that very one in my cart. I'm missing Miz Angela- her smile always makes my day!
makes me want to get on a tractor and do some brush hogging!
I have multiple implements that are not QH compatible so I’ve ditched the bolts on the hook for quick pins that I can pull and adjust without unbolting then rebolting the hook. I can move the hook in 20 seconds.
Glad you figured it out 😀. We all have those moments
Getting close to the100k milestone.
A really good video to share with us that sometimes life is hard. But thanks for showing us what you had to do so far. See you on your next visit .
I'm not really sure what you just did,
but you made it so interesting I watched all the way to the end! 😄
Great job Sam !
Look at Magnus manhandle that tractor LOL Another great video
Sam I've never used a quick hitch except for on bigger tractors (Cat 2 and 3). If that cutter is Agri X (which I think you said it is), it's made by Darrell Harp Enterprises in Alabama. Give them a call and see what they say. I've never seen a square bar in that particular location... definitely unique! Hope the old Ford gives you many years of good service!
Hi Sam. I enjoy all your videos. Hi to Angela & the boys. Blessings from Rick in N.H.
Honestly I LOVE watching your channel! You make me smile or outright belly laugh sometimes with the bloopers at the ends, but it’s the love and sense of family that always comes forth that keeps me watching. Thanks for letting me be one of your “family friends” vicariously through your videos. Happy Spring to y’all from SE Missouri 👋🏻🧑🏻🦳
Hope all have been going well.
Hi Sam...how are the fruit trees doing
Love your guys videos! Love your bloopers! And when you said boo boo town and don't listen to what Sam just said I was rollin'!🤣❤️
😁
We don’t have an answer for you but we love your channel
looks to me like you could create something on your own. I have faith
For years I used a 1956 Ford 640. Pretty much for brush-hogging and firewood shagging. When I retired my wife bought me a John Deere 1025R with 59 hours on it. First thing I added was a SpeeCo e-Hitch. So much easier to swap out three-point attachments. The rigid stabilizer arms of the Ford I do not miss. I do have to move the top hook on the SpeeCo frequently so I got a set of clevis pins to make that easier.
Although this was about the speeco quick hitch, I noticed how many turns it took for you to start your tractor. Given you're in a t shirt I'm assuming it's some what mild Temps out. It would be advisable to get yourself an ignition tune up kit so your not working your starter to death trying to turn the engine over. Yesterday's tractor or stieners tractor have tune up kits for about 40 bucks. They include a set of plug wires, points, dust cover, coil, and condenser for the distributor, as well as a new set of autolite plugs. The other scenario if you have done this already, then you may need to adjust your choke, to allow it to restrict air flow to increase fuel for better combustion on start ups. On a separate note on your clutch situation and how you said your either going or not going. Although this isn't ideal to be doing all the time, but you actually have the ability to let the clutch slip. It's okay to do this when you need to creep and ease into implement hook up. You will just have to have more finesse as the "release" of your clutch. Granted yes your throw out bearing is working harder, but it beats crashing in to stuff 😅
Anyway just a bit of advice from a guy who owns a 1969 ford 3000
I manually roll my Ford 1920 all the time when hooking up implements. I do find that, in addition to having it in neutral of course, disengaging the range selector helps considerably. And admittedly I’m doing it in a barn with a level cement floor. But the older and fatter I get, rolling it becomes easier than climbing up and down onto it to move it under power.
Does this model of quick hit REQUIRE you to move the levers to connect? They should be spring loaded to snap into place, when you pick up on the implement. To take it off, yeah, flip them over to get the wedge out of the way, but for hooking up, you should be able to just go under it and lift up and here 1 or 2 clanks when the pins drop into place freeing up the locks.
Lol!! Love the Jurassic Park reference!! Be well from Canada 🇨🇦
I've seen a double eye swivel used for the top link
Remove the adapter. Move rear deck support bendable bars to top hole of A frame ( may have to "fudge the travel") then put bolt with bushing in lower hole to catch hook.
move that square tube on the mower up to the top hole set and then put the hook to grab at the lower hole where the square tube is now!
I have a tractor and bought a quick hitch. I am 77 with hands that don't like to cooperate with me. I wanted to be able to hook up my implements by myself but found the quick hitch to be a disappointment. My son comes up and changes out my implements and he said it sure helped him. I have a problem attaching the PTO too and am trying to figure that one out. I have small hands so have troubles pushing in the spring pins.
Sam, I just like spending time, with you all.
Hi Sam, great video!!! Love the old ford tractor 🚜
🤔 Instead of the bolts you should get pins to make it much easier. 🤔 time 00:12:43
Hopefully you’ll be able to fabricate something to make it work!
Took me 1 attempt to put on an attachment without a quick hitch. I do not have the strength nor the patience for that. I bought a harbor freight quick hitch and it’s been in use for about 4 years now. I use a tiller, box blade, and brush hog on my JD 3032e.
Love you guys! Wouldn't want you any other way!
Because I wasn’t happy with the quick attach. I have started leaving top link off when mowing! I put at chain in for top link to pick up mower for roading!👍🏽😀❤️🇺🇸
Your supposed to remove the hook and put the adapter on the upper link pin
Turn your brush hog pin on top where it bolts together and then tighten all your bolts
on the rotary cutter top mount switch places with the square pivot tube and the hitch pin top to bottom the pin connector is now unhindered ,,, problem solved.
Have a great weekend
I removed my Pat’s quick hitch and went to Rural King quick hitch because it is a lot easier to install and remove for those implements that won’t fit or can’t be used on a quick hitch. No bolts or shims and no more turn buckles for the most part
I am thinking of buying one for one reason. With a little fabrication it should make a super barb wire unroller, after removing the tractor drawbar.
I always liked working on my old John Deere.
Awesome and you’ll learn to love it when it works and hate it when it doesn’t. I grew up on a farm without them and later we got them. Good level flat ground and it was usually good. Iwe had multiple tractors of different size and hitches were different widths and categories. Ground would settle and cause the implements to change angles. It was always something to make it fun. But we could usually get the top hook to go and pull it to the correct spot.
On your cutter move your bar that goes to rest to the top pin hole and and a bolt /bushing to bottom like your grader blade. Or using the bottom hole mount the bar to rear on the outside by welding ears on it.
Also your lower pins on the cutter need to have a “head” on the outside.
Once you get all equip set up for the hitch it will work fine and great.
I should say your top link on your brush hog the bolt on bottom, put it to the top side and tighten ALL the bolts down, they shouldn’t move
No idea if this is possible, but if it is, you can try flipping the adjustable quick hitch back, connecting the bottom, then flipping the quick hitch back over to connect.
I don't know, something I would try though.
Good evening Sam , great to see you again .
On your brush hog. It's hard to tell in the video but could you move your square tube with the joint to the top hole where the 3rd link usually sets and then move your pin to the lower hole and capture it with with the quick hitch? Drilling is a little bit easier (and cheaper) then welding and if it doesnt work.... well you were going to have to have some welding done anyways.
Great vid. Thank you.
Pat's easy/quick hitch was a real game changer. Makes life so much easier for changing implements. Check it out if you haven't yet.
Brian carpenter stole my thunder lol he’s correct!!!
We sold our quick hitch...didn't work with any of our implements.
It's interesting ...even though I will probably never use it...lo....hugs
My brush hog don't hook up to my quick hitch as well.... but everything else does! And I only use my cutter a couple times a year.... not that big a deal to hook it up..... good luck on your quest!
Thanks for sharing your video with us Susan and Henry from Wisconsin
Hi Sam! I have a Cat 2 3-point so it's a bit different, but I have used a quick-coupler for years...
First of all, you need to change out your pins on your implements, because they are different!
Secondly, I never used the top link on our rotary mower so the rear wheels stayed on the ground(we had an 8' Deere on Dad's 3020).
The quick coupler works, but your implements must be set up for it!
Also, it looks like you need to shorten up your top link more... just an observation from the armchair, LOL!!!
It looks like you might be able to unbolt the square tube and move it up to where your top link pin currently goes. Hard to tell if the top hook on the quick hitch will reach the pin if it's in that bottom hole though.
I was thinking the same thing
GOOD JOB SAM/ WE KNOW YOU WILL PERSERVERE
dont use the top hook on the quick hitch when using that adapter piece. The U shaped end goes over the quick hitch and you run your top pin through that
Can you replace those arms running from the hitch to the back corners of the cutter with chains?
I debated a quick hitch for my Kubota B2601 and found it didn’t really help me. I’m not in a hurry most of the time and a rubber mallet on the lifting arms works fine for me. I spent the money I saved on lights for snow plowing and late night projects. Better investment
I shared your frustration, I have old implements and had to adapt several to fit. Absolutely worth the effort. A couple tips, I fabricated a double pin with a D handle to replace the two bolts for the top hook which saves a lot of time, and for the bush hog and finish cutter I use a loop of chain on the top link connection and just drop it over the hook. They don’t need to be rigid at the top link, they can give going thru a ditch and still lift the implements. Has worked well for years.
Thanks for the info!
I have a 1968 IH tractor. I use a Cat II quick hitch. It works great on implements that are quick hitch compatiable. Not on implements that are not QH compatiable. I actually remove the QH to use those implements. Not easy (Cat II = much heavier) but the QH makes it so much easier on the ones that it works on. Pat's Easy Hitch might be a better choice for you
I actually plan to rebuild the hitches on the implements that are not QH compatiable. Not an easy job, but it will save mounting and dismounting the QH
Good luck with your plan. I hope it works for you
So Sam obviously i don’t have a tractor like yours , but I have worked metal a bit. So take with a grain of sand, but what i see the black part that you hooked your adaptor onto…. Instead of the adaptor as you said added a pivot point what if you made side plates that were longer weld them on to the sides with extra holes for adjustments. Then this would reach your top connector with out adding a pivot point and at the same time let you keep the original hole for other tools. I hope you get what I’m trying to say wish I could add a sketch. Any way without not being there may not work ? But you could mock up with plywood just to see if it aligned before committing to cutting expensive metal. Good luck!
This was 9 months ago so you have probably already figured this out. On your mower the top link was in the top hole and a bar from the back was below it. Swap them so the quick hitch hooks in the bottom hole.
We like consistency.
Am putting a list of stuff I want to up grade on my tractor or actually thinking of just buying a new one with all the stuff I want know that I have done more research
go with pats easy hitch and hydraulic top link
Great video Sam!! I tried the quick hitch was specco also it hooked up Great to my box blade which is quick hitch compatible but not my other implements. Bought a swivel thing has 2 rings that swivel in middle worked little better but still a pain I sold mine to a friend just do it the hard way till I save enough to buy Pat's easy hitch personally believe that's what you prolly need also. Ask tractor Mike shows those on his channel will hook to any implements. Good luck. Thanks for sharing be safe have fun enjoy ya'lls family time and beautiful homestead
Thinking about installing MR Cool mini splits in our single wide seen you added a fireplace? Can we get a update on your review since you’ve had them for awhile now?