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Awesome, thanks. Yes, my drill has a "rotary drilling" setting. Another dumb question: If you have - let's say - 1/4" bolts, do you drill a 1/4" hole, or maybe a nudge bigger hole (like 5/16" or 9/32") ?

Until I get a LOT better at welding, it seems like I can kludge together a lot of useful stuff, if I can drill holes (from 1/4" to maybe 3/4") in steel plates (up to maybe 3/8" thick). So far so good? I have a Dewalt DCH133 rotary hammer drill that so far I've used only to drill holes in...

Hmmm... I'm having an aha! and doh! moment all at once. I have two "garages", one has a concrete floor. Based on the last couple of posts (thanks!), I'm thinking my truck and tractor can live without a concrete floor, and my implements should get the concrete. hmmm...

Oops, I guess I forgot a few important details: - My intention IS to use my box blade scarifiers to first break up the soil. - Historically we get very little frost where we live. We might get one or two weeks a year below freezing, and getting into the "teens" is very rare. - Our goal is to...

We're in the early stages of building a couple miles of horse riding trails on our farm. Our soil is rocky, and we keep our horses barefoot. (If anyone wants to debate barefoot vs. shod, that's for a different thread ;) ) We don't need a perfect de-rock-ification solution. It's hard to describe...

So far my ONLY concern with the Pat's is that the lower pins on the implements aren't sitting square and flat on the Pat's's hooks. I'm thinking maybe that between washers and bushings on the implements, I shouldn't worry about the lack of square and flat?

I got my QH15 a few months back. It's great for my box blade and "top and tilt", and I'm sure it will be fine for the LP cutter that should be here any day now. (Although I don't imagine I'll be doing much "top and tilt" with the cutter, but who knows?) But the QH15 didn't work at all for my...

This question led me to an "uh-oh" minute. But I checked, and my lower 3 point arms have ball joints(?) at both ends. So I'm thinking that even though the Pat's will lock down the ball joints at one end, the other end should still keep things from binding. Does that sound right?

I have some new implements, they're great. AND, I have a 25 year old tedder rake that works fine, and a baler from India. The rake and the baler just don't fit the QH15.

Thanks for the clarification. I think I'm going to switch to the Pat's because I have some older implements.

Can you restate those two sentences, I can't quite parse them. thanks!

I agree. The trick is finding a fabricator.

I'm noticing that in general having a tractor is slowly expanding my mechanical skills. That said, cutting and drilling and welding thick steel is still outside of my skill set.

I think my problem is that some of my implements are WAY OFF from being Cat Anything compatible :eek:

I did some searching on the site and found a few threads that seemed to be close to my question, but nothing spot on. So sorry in advance if this question has already been answered. I ordered the Pat's QH, and I'm looking forward to using it. I do think that one way or another, I will want to...

I have good access to the nuts and washers, and if they fall, they'll fall to the ground, no problem. The problem is the heads of the bolts. Getting access to the heads of the bolts is the "can of worms" project. So if I need to keep the bolts from spinning when I loosen the nuts, I don't think...

Yeah. The nuts are on the inside. If I can remove the nuts without having to have access to the other end of the bolts, it might work. But if I have to have access to the far ends of the bolts it turns into a real can of worms.

My bad. I took that picture before I reversed the pins. The cat I pins are now on the outside, and that pin to pin dimension is 23+inches.

These balers are made in India. They're "supposed" to be the highest quality in this class of baler, and I have to say the thing is built like a tank. I'm very impressed with the build quality so far. It appears to me that all the manufacturers of these mini round balers are using the same basic...

Reposting a picture from earlier (below). One of my not-haying-season projects will be to see if it's possible to swap the left hand and right hand, z-shaped pieces that hold the pins. I've measured the offsets and if it's not a nightmare to swap them, that would make it the correct width.