quick hitch

[mnr60]

SCORE!!!
Driving home tonight , sitting in guys front yard for sale, Speeco cat 1 quick hitch.
Late evening and he was loading it onto his JD Gator to take back to barn to put away. I turned around and pulled in driveway, he had $50 marked on it and without much haggling I bought it for $30.
Now fun begins seeing which of my implements will hookup without modifications.

 

[WFM]

A great find.
I bought mine from Northern. They have these oversize pins that slide over the factory pins to make the pins larger and the larger pins lock into the quick hitch better or tighter. The pins have a large shoulder on one side. On my rotory cutter the pin is between to pieces of flat bar. The large shoulder would not fit. I marked the pin and put it in my band saw and cut the shoulder off or most of it and it fit right in. I like the quick hitch especially working alone. But the top link will need adjusting and the 'hook' or 'fork' will need to be moved or added as needed for each attachment.

 

[Wbk]

Good score, now the fun begins making all your implements the same. That's the part that I enjoy and whenever you hook up to one of them you'll wonder why you never got one sooner.

 

[bearskinner]

Once you make all your implements fit the quick hitch the same way, usually by altering the top attachment point, you won't have to adjust anything, or even get off the tractor to go from one to the next.

 

[kclark]

I am looking at buying a Speeco hitch. Does it come with the top link pin and lynch pin. It looks like it comes with the hitch pins and lynch pins.

 

[BensBX]

Good deal for $30 you can't go wrong. Quick hitches saves so much time and hassle getting off and on dragging or lifting. Preparing all your implements to be compatible is a chore but those oversize bushings with the large shoulder is the way to go. Typically the top hitch point becomes an issue with non-compatible quick hitch implements. I had to cut and grind a lot of 1/4" steel on a box blade to finally make it line up easily but it is sure worth it as an end result. Few minutes of popping one off and another on without leaving your seat is great.