TNT with quick hitch?

[galaxie428]

I use a quick hitch on my 3pt and was just curious if this would still work with a TNT? I know the top link would be ok but will the side work? I don't recall there being a lot of extra room between the hitch sides and the arms on the 3pt. My quick hitch is a Harbor Freight hitch.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

I use a quick hitch on my 3pt and was just curious if this would still work with a TNT? I know the top link would be ok but will the side work? I don't recall there being a lot of extra room between the hitch sides and the arms on the 3pt. My quick hitch is a Harbor Freight hitch.

No problem. Do you already have the 2 rear remotes needed?

 

[galaxie428]

Thanks MtnView. No, I do not have two yet. I only have one so far. I will be piecing this together for a while as it is a big expense. I should have just gotten the two remotes when I bought the tractor!

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Thanks MtnView. No, I do not have two yet. I only have one so far. I will be piecing this together for a while as it is a big expense. I should have just gotten the two remotes when I bought the tractor!

This is what I try to tell most everyone, get as many as they offer or a minimum of 2. But when a person is a tractor noobie either they can't figure why in the world would anyone need remotes or they just plain don't even know about them. Even if the dealer brings them up, same thought, "why would I need those"? So there is a learning curve and people start adding them as they realize how much better things can be.

We have all made similar mistakes.

 

[NOTV8]

I'm not sure what model you have but my CT235 came with the manual type tilt that you have to crank (have not use mine yet though). If you want to use one now. But I'm not sure how far down it goes. And I also have the HF quick hitch with CCM HTL. You can also install the additional remote your self if you are handy. It is not that hard. Reading the instructions takes longer than installing it.... (who reads instructions anyway ). After you remove the seat of course :thumbsup:.

 

[Sabretooth]

Thanks MtnView. No, I do not have two yet. I only have one so far. I will be piecing this together for a while as it is a big expense. I should have just gotten the two remotes when I bought the tractor!

I second that galaxie428 I am waiting to put my 2nd set on too. I think a large percentage of Bobcat buyers were noobs I wonder what the actual percentage was I was/still a noob learning as I go right now I gotta do the BB first.
Dont want to hijack the thread galaxie428 just wanted to ask how that HF Q/hitch works did you have to do any mods to work with different attachments? One reason I brought the Bobcat was the ease of hooking stuff up with the adjustable 3pt arms but I still have to get off the seat I know Kubota wanted extra I think $150or200 just for that Thanks and sorry about the question

 

[galaxie428]

Personally, I never thought I would ever use the second remote, I wasn't sure I would ever use the first remote. I bought a backhoe this year so I do have a use for the one set.

The QH works very well. I did have to modify an old finish mower I bought but it was easy to do. The tiller I have hooked right up. I also made a rear ballast and a trailer hitch but I made them to fit the QH.

I have to remove it when I hook up the BH which is kind of a pain but I also have to remove the anti sway bars too. I takes about 30 min or so to remove all that and get the BH hooked up. It would be quicker with a spotter but I have a hard time lining up the BH with the mount because I can't see it.

 

[SPYDERLK]

NO. Top will work work with the 3pt QH, but tilt is significantly impaired and in some cases totally defeated by the hitch restricting normal articulation of the ball ends that fit into the QH slots. The slots are narrow and leave little or no room for ball to swivel wrt the lift arm, which they must for tilt. Bummer
larry

 

[MtnViewRanch]

NO. Top will work work with the 3pt QH, but tilt is significantly impaired and in some cases totally defeated by the hitch restricting normal articulation of the ball ends that fit into the QH slots. The slots are narrow and leave little or no room for ball to swivel wrt the lift arm, which they must for tilt. Bummer
larry

Larry are you sure? My Harbor freight quick hitch has full range of motion on my 3215.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Have you tilted it Its gotta be either wrenching the arms against the lift links and tractor ends ... or youre flexing the QH / both. Or its nothing like my HF hitches that just give barely enuf room to fit the balls.
larry

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Have you tilted it Its gotta be either wrenching the arms against the lift links and tractor ends ... or youre flexing the QH / both. Or its nothing like my HF hitches that just give barely enuf room to fit the balls.
larry

It has been tilted to the max and everything seemed fine to me. Maybe it is built differently? I'll try to remember to get pictures the next time I'm out to the ranch. (next week?)

 

[galaxie428]

I don't know if a hydraulic side link has more range of motion than the adjustable side link on my 230 but I tried it yesterday as Notv8 suggested and I was able to put a pretty good angle on it without the QH interfering. I will have to look again and see what kind of spacing is in there for the lift arms but I was thinking I have a little bit of room.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I don't know if a hydraulic side link has more range of motion than the adjustable side link on my 230 but I tried it yesterday as Notv8 suggested and I was able to put a pretty good angle on it without the QH interfering. I will have to look again and see what kind of spacing is in there for the lift arms but I was thinking I have a little bit of room.

In order to have full available tilt you need to be able to extend one side all the way while contracting the other all the way. A std 3pt allows that whereas the QHs Iv seen bind up early and distort parts of the mechanism as you force tilt with the hydraulics. Some are so bad as to do it with only a few degrees of tilt.
larry

 

[MtnViewRanch]

In order to have full available tilt you need to be able to extend one side all the way while contracting the other all the way. A std 3pt allows that whereas the QHs Iv seen bind up early and distort parts of the mechanism as you force tilt with the hydraulics. Some are so bad as to do it with only a few degrees of tilt.
larry

Larry, you do know that a lot of tractors do not have adjustable side links on both sides? I think that usually the 2 adjustable side link 3 pt hitch is on bigger tractors or maybe very deluxe machines. So yes in your scenario of one adjustable side collapsed all the way and the other side extended all the way, I could see where that might be a problem. Most people that have hydraulic side links only have them on one side and usually only adjust the hydraulic. I would think that it would be a very extreme situation where you would need to adjust both sides to the opposite extremes to achieve what was needed. I know that that situation has never come up for me.

 

[SPYDERLK]

All of our tractors have adjustment on both sides, whether by different pinning positions or screw adjustment of the links or a mix of those.
larry