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 | Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee 
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2003-08-01 60650
I posted some new pictures and I included the new 3 pt. trailer hitch with the new pics. This hitch also is can be a cherry picker lift, kind like the engine plucker lift jack. The top reciever is where the lift goes and it also can accept a goose neck hitch as well. I wish I could weld and fabricate like my buddy can! I still have to paint it up nice & pretty but I was so pleased with the work he did, I just had to hurry up and post some picks!
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 | AC5ZO
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 928 Rio Rancho, NM 87144 
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2003-08-01 60656
That is pretty nice.
I am in the middle of welding an adapter up similar to what Mark posted before, but I think that I can modify it to include the cherry picker idea. ....
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| Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee
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2003-08-01 60658
This hitch comes in REALLY handy for moving the boats and trailer around. The Whaler almost dragged me down the hill with it last week and my daughter saved the day and put a block of wood behind a tire to stop it. Pulled about every muscle in my body trying to slow it down. I should have known better than to move the boat like that. ....
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 | DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada
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2003-08-01 60662
Chief, you may find you will need some provision for tying the hitch down.
If the tongue weight goes the wrong way(hitting a bump or something)it will slam your three point hitch against its upper stops, doing it no favors in the process. ....
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| Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee
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2003-08-01 60667
Good point Mark. I hadn't thought about that but I had that problem on my Cub 154 Loboy. I will keep an eye on that when I try it out but I think I have enough tongue weight with the Whaler and definitely with the Sea Ray and trailer. ....
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| AC5ZO
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 928 Rio Rancho, NM 87144
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2003-08-01 60677
On my TC45, they had to take the drawbar hanger off when they put the backhoe subframe on. That left some tapped holes in that lower differential housing that I was planning to put an eyebolt into to tie a chain to the top link mount on the lift attachment.
I may make something more substantial, however, because the 3PH can lift a substantial load and might bend eyebolts and break a chain smaller than 1/4 ". ....
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 | kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon
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2003-08-01 60679
Chief, that looks pretty nice. I really like the cherry picker idea. It looks like some welding equipment is in my future - that's a skill I'd love to acquire.
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 | jeff r
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 428 burton. michigan 
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2003-08-03 60861
Good Job Chief
Just get you a chunk metal to keep it from rising like the other guys said and it willl be a dandy.
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| Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee
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2003-08-04 60952
Jeff, I wish I could take credit for that and weld/fabricate so well but credit goes to my firewood cutting partner. I have it all painted up John Deere Industrial yellow. Had a bunch of 10 year old cans so that is what it got. Looks good. ....
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 | Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7249 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada
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2003-08-06 61082
Chief, sharp looking hitch rig, but just a thought, design-wise.
The point about the tie-down is important, tongue weight aside, if you try to use too much brakes and the boat doesn't agree it will try to find another way to make up the difference in speed between tractor & trailer. This usually translates into vertical travel in the 3pth if there is nothing to physically stop it.
The suggestion I wanted to make was aimed at the stopping ability, or lack thereof, with one of those big boats of yours out back of that Deere.
If you took a piece of square tubing the right size to go in the downward-angled receiver tube (2"x2" presumably) and of a length such that it was just clear of the ground with the trailer fairly level, welded a base plate with teeth on the bottom of it, and inserted it pointing forwards and downwards under the 3pth it would act like a 'Flinstones' skid-type emergency brake if the load got away from you. Lowering the 3pth would cause it to bite into the ground, hopefully stopping, or at least helping to stop the trailer.
I figure it would be better to mess up the ground a little than to mess up your shorts a lot.....LOL
Best of luck. ....
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| Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee
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2003-08-08 61316
I have posted 6 more pictures of the hitch all painted up nice a pretty John Deere Yellow. ;-) I also included the safety chain to keep the rockshafts from raising up if the trailer tongue weight shifts. I am going to see if I can find a heavier chain to use in place of the chain I am currently using but not too strong as I want to chain to break before the floating draw bar below the trans case bends. Take a look and see what you think? ....
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| kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon
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2003-08-08 61319
Hey Chief, that looks pretty darned good! I noticed two things.
One, your tires are entirely too clean - must be the pressure washer at work, eh? You'd never keep 'em that clean in our red mud.
The other thing was an idea for controlling the breaking point of the chain. How about rigging up a shear bolt? I'm sure the shear strength of those bolts could be found somewhere, the trick would be to find the stress point where you want it to shear (before your floating drawbar bends). ....
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 | F350Lawman
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 411 Goshen, NY
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2003-10-31 67685
See pic #9
Not as nice as your setup Chief but the price was right!
This is the top view of a 3pt hitch tow bar I am working on. I found this in the woods at my buddies place when he started to build his new house. Seems it was off an older and long ago departed Case homeowner tractor. It was very rusted with rusted out category 0 pins on the sides. I broke the pins off, wire brushed the entire thing and painted it. The original pins were only about 16" in spread so will need to weld on some addtional metal and cat. 1 pins to increase it to about a 24" spread to fit my 3pt. arms. I may build something or just buy a $20- 3pt drawbar from JD and mount or weld it onto the bottom. I also need to enlarge the holes for the top link they are a little small right now.
Whoever built it did so well. It is 1/2" steel with 1/4" angle iron supports boxing the entire setup for added strenght. It weighs over 50 lbs. easy. It is built from the center section of a 2" vehicle hitch with a 1 1/2 sleeve tucked and welded inside so I will need to use solid 1 1/2" slides to mount hitch ballson. For now I will be using it with aclevis run through the slide to attach to my pintle hook trailer.
I had been using the drawbar with a big clevis to attach to the pintle hook but it was a little low. This will make hookups MUCH easier.
Oh, I still have to paint it green. Not bad for free though.
Should work well and now I won't have to bother with cranking the manure trailer up and down, just hookup, lift it with the 3 pt. and go. When done I will rest the trailer tongue back on a large wooden block until next use.
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| Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4297 Southwest MiddleTennessee
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2003-10-31 67688
Definitely tough to beat a deal that gets the job done for free. My friend makes the hitch in my pics if you are ever interested in the future. ....
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| F350Lawman
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 411 Goshen, NY
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2003-10-31 67690
Thanks,
Think I am good for now. Just looked at your photo again, sure is a nice clean setup. I will be "borrowing" your safety chain idea too stop it from rising past a certain point
Scott ....
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