3 Pt Hitch Help

CastleRock257 · Aug 5, 2018

Hi All:

New guy. Lurker. First post.

2016 NX4510 HST. Has only 14 hours on it. Bought it, then my wife got diagnosed with lung cancer and I lost a job. Tractor got parked/ stored while we fought for our lives. We succeeded: wife now cancer free, job replaced.

I want to use my tractor now.... I cannot lower the 3 pt hitch. I read the manual, searched here and the internet in general, and read all the relevant threads I could find, fiddled with knob under the seat etc, and I cannot get it to work.

Please help.... Is there some simple setting I'm missing or could something have seized up from disuse? Of note, I never actually lower the hitch ever before putting the tractor away. First time I tried to move it was today.

Thanks for any advice.

Regards,

Tom

ning · Aug 5, 2018

CastleRock257 said:
Hi All:

New guy. Lurker. First post.

2016 NX4510 HST. Has only 14 hours on it. Bought it, then my wife got diagnosed with lung cancer and I lost a job. Tractor got parked/ stored while we fought for our lives. We succeeded: wife now cancer free, job replaced.

I want to use my tractor now.... I cannot lower the 3 pt hitch. I read the manual, searched here and the internet in general, and read all the relevant threads I could find, fiddled with knob under the seat etc, and I cannot get it to work.

Please help.... Is there some simple setting I'm missing or could something have seized up from disuse? Of note, I never actually lower the hitch ever before putting the tractor away. First time I tried to move it was today.

Thanks for any advice.

Regards,

Tom

There should be a knob below the seat which adjusts the speed at which the 3ph drops. If that's cranked tight, coupled with stuff being stuck from disuse, it could be tough to get the hitch down. Try loosening that first.

CastleRock257 · Aug 5, 2018

I did try that... knob was frozen at first, now moves freely but hitch still doesn't move. Could knob mechanism be busted?

ruffdog · Aug 5, 2018

Do you have a way to get a few hundred pounds on the 3pt arms?

CastleRock257 · Aug 5, 2018

ruffdog said:
Do you have a way to get a few hundred pounds on the 3pt arms?

Yeah I could probably do that. Advisable? Sounds a little risky.

Both inside and outside handles move freely and the linkage between them is intact. But the hitch doesn't move at all. Probably not smart but I put my bodyweight on it (190) and it did not budge.

countrybumpkin · Aug 5, 2018

Is the draft lever pushed all the way down? Push both levers all the way down next to the seat.

CastleRock257 · Aug 5, 2018

countrybumpkin said:
Is the draft lever pushed all the way down? Push both levers all the way down next to the seat.

Actually, did so much fiddling around, I'm not sure I ever had them both all the way down.... I think they started out all the way up..... I will try it.

Thank you ning, ruffdog and countrybumpkin for the quick replies to my first post here... makes me feel welcome.