Quick Hitches 3pt Spreader on Quick Hitch?

kdlklm · Jun 23, 2009

Is anyone using a fertilizer spreader on a quick hitch. If so what make and model's. Any photos would be great to.

EZ-HITCH · Jul 2, 2009

Our quick hitch should work great for you. We can make them to fit ANY size tractor. You can see the full product line at carterandsonsllc.com

tbenn7362 · Jul 3, 2009

I have adapted an atv electric spreader to my imatch system. It works great for smaller food plots(less than 4 acres). It has the benefit of being able to spread the very small seeds like rape. I love the quickhith for fast changes,

greg_g · Jul 4, 2009

kdlklm said:
Is anyone using a fertilizer spreader on a quick hitch. If so what make and model's. Any photos would be great to.

Am posting from my laptop on the road right now, so no photos. But I have a PTO driven three point hitch seeder/spreader (cone style) that works just fine with Pat's Easy Hitch system. But I was lucky that I had plenty of extension left in the spreader's PTO drive shaft. This is important, because when you add most QuickHitch designs, they move the implement 3-4" away from the tractor. That then necessarily requires an equal extension of the PTO driveline.

//greg//

EZ-HITCH · Jul 4, 2009

greg_g said:
most QuickHitch designs, they move the implement 3-4" away from the tractor. That then necessarily requires an equal extension of the PTO driveline.

//greg//

This is the great thing about our design, the quick hitch mounts directly over the existing draw pin bearing so there is no need for an extension on either the PTO shaft or the top link. You also maintain all of your lifting capacity, whereas with the other designs you loose lifting capacity.

greg_g · Jul 4, 2009

EZ-HITCH said:
there is no need for an extension on either the PTO shaft or the top link.

Don't get me wrong, I've got no reason to criticize you or your product. But assuming your avatar is your hitch - I can't buy that claim. The device in that photo appears to attach directly to where an implement lift pin would normally reside. So what I see mounts the implement behind its normal attachment point - just like all the others that use the swivel ball to mate the product with the lift arm. As such, a proportionate extension of both PTO shaft and toplink must be expected.

//greg//

dirt ditch · Jul 5, 2009

My Cosmo 500 spreader is not quick hitch compatible, but it has not been that big of deal taking off the imatch and hooking up the spreader. The spreader is not very heavy.

wvpolekat · Jul 5, 2009

greg_g said:
Don't get me wrong, I've got no reason to criticize you or your product. But assuming your avatar is your hitch - I can't buy that claim. The device in that photo appears to attach directly to where an implement lift pin would normally reside. So what I see mounts the implement behind its normal attachment point - just like all the others that use the swivel ball to mate the product with the lift arm. As such, a proportionate extension of both PTO shaft and toplink must be expected.

//greg//

Looks like the one in the avitar puts the hook ABOVE them normal attach point instead of behind. So, you may not have to add length, you will loose some functionality of your lift, your ground engaging attachments will loose a couple inches of depth.

There is just no way to add a quick attach of any sort to the factory lift arms and NOT alter some aspect of the lift. It is physically impossible. The only way to get quick attach hooks and not change any aspect of the hitch would be to cut the ends off the arms and place the hook so that it is in the same place the original eye was.