Too many Kubotas
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While it's quire rare that I move trailers with a tractor, at some point I bought a cheap clamp-on receiver for the bucket. That one was a fail, as no matter how hard it was tightened down it would move side to side when turning the tractor.
A few years later I bought one that just clicks into the quick disconnect on the loader on one side. Wouldn't use that one on the L3800's flimsy loader, but used it once on the M6040 and it seemed to work well. Plus it was easy to see the pintle hook and tow ring.
Anyway, I'm sorry, but I just can't see any kind of adequate lateral support for that green thingy. It would be painfully simple to triangulate it to one of the many holes in the horizontal bar, though. Even doing it on only one side would make it several times stronger.
Again, I'm not arguing that it can lift as is, with the hook on top doing the lifting and the flat bar at the bottom preventing the bottom of it from moving towards the tractor. But there doesn't seem to be much that would prevent it from turning sideways...except when it runs out of rotational space at the hook. At which point I would expect deformed metal, then breakage.
A few years later I bought one that just clicks into the quick disconnect on the loader on one side. Wouldn't use that one on the L3800's flimsy loader, but used it once on the M6040 and it seemed to work well. Plus it was easy to see the pintle hook and tow ring.
Anyway, I'm sorry, but I just can't see any kind of adequate lateral support for that green thingy. It would be painfully simple to triangulate it to one of the many holes in the horizontal bar, though. Even doing it on only one side would make it several times stronger.
Again, I'm not arguing that it can lift as is, with the hook on top doing the lifting and the flat bar at the bottom preventing the bottom of it from moving towards the tractor. But there doesn't seem to be much that would prevent it from turning sideways...except when it runs out of rotational space at the hook. At which point I would expect deformed metal, then breakage.