Is there a way to apply down pressure on a three point hitch

[rfc143]

I've searched and read a ton of threads on "Position Control", "Draft Control", and they all seem to imply that the hydraulics can apply up pressure lifting the implement, but gravity is all you got going for you going down. I believe my tractor (Kubota L5240) has Position Control but not Draft Control.
I'm trying to solve a "hopping" problem with the add on grader blade to a LandPride LR 3784 rake, using it to scrape small snowfalls (1-3"), that are too little to dink with the blower.

Short of just adding more weight, is there any way to apply additional down pressure on an implement?

 

[M5farms]

weight is only way to increase down pressure

 

[flusher]

Google "3 point hitch hydraulic down force kit". You'll find what you need.

Good luck

 

[CobyRupert]

Weight.

If you have down pressure you lose rear traction, and the back tires would come off the ground anytime they went into the slightest dip.

 

[MossRoad]

I've searched and read a ton of threads on "Position Control", "Draft Control", and they all seem to imply that the hydraulics can apply up pressure lifting the implement, but gravity is all you got going for you going down. I believe my tractor (Kubota L5240) has Position Control but not Draft Control.
I'm trying to solve a "hopping" problem with the add on grader blade to a LandPride LR 3784 rake, using it to scrape small snowfalls (1-3"), that are too little to dink with the blower.

Short of just adding more weight, is there any way to apply additional down pressure on an implement?

If you have draft control, it should be right next to the position control, similar to this...

 

[jeff9366]

If you have down pressure you lose rear traction, and the back tires would come off the ground anytime they went into the slightest dip.

Newton's Law = For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

 

[atsah]

Add weight to you're blade if it's hopping.. The only thing I can think of that 3pth down pressure would be good for is drilling holes with a post hole digger. As stated already, if you put pressure to the blade as soon as you had uneven ground you're rear tires would come off the ground.

 

[CobyRupert]

Newton's Law = For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

This is why I don't understand weight distribution hitches. Admittedly, I've never used them and I'm ignorant about them, but not physics.

 

[ruffdog]

The OP should try plowing with the blade backwards. Many times it will not hop and bounce like it does when using it the "normal" way. Some snows I use my plow normally but most times I reverse it.

 

[atsah]

I had a truck with a Fisher 9ft steel blade, plowed great, switched to a X-blade SS much lighter, big mistake, bounced all over the places, shook the headlights enough to break them..