Offsetting a 3point attachment?

[404nouser]

Our Kubota 3450 with 13.6x24 Ags has a center axle height of 21". The Ford 3000 with tires one size up is probably 22". I cant imagine anyone designing a tractor with drawbar at the height of the axle. That would be dangerous.

Could depend on variant.
On my old Ford I have the utility with 21" of ground clearance but the row crop version had 27.9"
Some versions the wheels bolt to the axle shaft, but many row crop ones had portal axles.

 

[slingworks]

Could depend on variant.
On my old Ford I have the utility with 21" of ground clearance but the row crop version had 27.9"
Some versions the wheels bolt to the axle shaft, but many row crop ones had portal axles.

My Zetor has portal axles and sits the lowest of any tractor I have. Seems on that model the factory adjusted the height of the variant by rotating the portal axles and changing the front axle to a lower height. I could raise my machine up by rotating those portal axles, but I'd have to change some brake lines and the front axle to a higher type. Still probably cheaper to buy an older machine.

Kind of off topic a little, but I wonder if the Ford row crops you mention have the same design? Where a guy could rotate the portals to lower it down to a more standard height for a 3000?

 

[DJ54]

I have both, and 130 and 140 w/Fast Hitch. This particular year I cultivated with the 130 and hilled with the 140. I'd just put the cultivators on the 130 and was experimenting with it.

The County has a farm park where they let us plant vegetables for their Fall Harvest Festival. We normally plant around 250-300 lbs. of potatoes. I got designated to cultivate and hill the potatoes, so mounted the hiller (converted from 3 pt. hitch) on the 130 so I could do both. Cultivated in first gear, hilled potatoes in second. It worked great. Hiller disc's are 15" and didn't even know they were on there.

But we plant 5' O.C. I suppose in all there is about 3/4 of an acre planted in potatoes. Rule of thumb here is for every 100 lbs. planted you get 1,000 lbs. in return. I have no idea the amount you want to harvest, but guessing with that planter you should be able to plant 500 lbs. and in a good year, harvest 5,000 lbs. Just some food for thought on considering 5' rows. Here again we use an old IH pull type digger and is pulled with a small New Holland tractor with hydro so it can move slow.