Had to share this find from Harbor Freight

[aerojunkie]

Thanks for the info HobbyFarmer, I have one of them in my cart right now. What are you guys using for the bushings for the lift arms? I found these on the same site, but wonder if there is a cheaper alternative to them.

873-QH144 HF141144 QUICK HITCH KIT(2 BUSHINGS/PINS S141144 - Quality Farm Supply - Farm equipment, tractor parts, agricultural supplies

 

[JRobyn]

That's a good price for the adapter bushings. I paid about the same, maybe a little more from Northern Tool.

 

[aerojunkie]

That's a good price for the adapter bushings. I paid about the same, maybe a little more from Northern Tool.

Is that the correct bushings to get? They have a few to choose from and im not sure. I have also read where people use regular lynch pins along with bushings cut from metal pipe in the right diameter.

 

[JRobyn]

Those are correct assuming you have "regular" Cat 1 pins on your implements. Pipe and lynch pins works fine too assuming you can find pipe with the correct dimensions for both ID and OD. I briefly tried and gave up. The ready-made adapters were just a whole lot simpler and any cost difference was negligible.

I thought about NOT using the adapters with the drive-in roll pins so that it would be a little easier to convert my implements back to non-QH. But then I thought that the only reason I would do that was so that an in-law or neighbor could borrow the implement. And do I REALLY want to loan out an implement?