3pt Top Link chain

   / 3pt Top Link chain #23  
I rarely hook up the toplink to either the finishing mower or the bush hog. If there's a rock to hit, lifting the 3 point hitch gets it over any obstacle.

My 3 point hitch holds it's position quite well, no drop so no worries...
What does that do to the PTO shaft U-joints?
 
   / 3pt Top Link chain #24  
After reading about guys using a length of chain top link, I made one. I considered what happens if the mower or land plane tips up all the way. My rotary mower would tip up to about 60° before the A-frame hits the back of the tractor diff. housing, but by then the PTO shaft has already broken, which I should've already known and shut down the tractor. Using a short pipe 6" shorter over the chain prevents this from happening.
I wonder how many tractor operators don't watch the implements they are using, just turn the key and steer? This can cause problems though, I have a loose disc in my back from looking over my right shoulder watching what's happening; my chiropractor fixes me about 1-2x/week.
What I need is a chiropractor to fix me at least weekly but it has to be a young she with tight fitting clothes as well..
 
   / 3pt Top Link chain #25  
What I need is a chiropractor to fix me at least weekly but it has to be a young she with tight fitting clothes as well..
I went to one once, it made me stiff in the wrong places; never went back.
 
   / 3pt Top Link chain #27  
I think the advice applies for any implement that can carry weight that should be on the back tires.
Not arguing that point, the point I was making is everyone has drifted the dialog to mowers and bush hogs which is not what the OP had asked about.
 
   / 3pt Top Link chain #28  
What does that do to the PTO shaft U-joints?
Don't really know, never a problem for me. Plenty of overlap but not enough to ever bottom out. The pto shaft and 3 point hitch arms are pretty parallel and only a few inches higher. So nothing gets into a bind no matter how deep a ditch I cut across.

As for the OP, not sure chains are recommended for any other implement except for mowers...
 
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All., thank you! keep the comments coming. About 80% of my mowing is done going backwards. I live in a holler and to keep the roads and ditches clean its usually a case of backing the mower over the edge back and forth all the way, thank God for HST. I know that is not the intended design of a rottery cutter. But i dont have a flat peice of ground on this place except where i have made it flat. How do you thing using a chain would work out mowing backwards.
 
 

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