Quick Hitches quick hitch bushings help

[Luke'sScreenName]

Thinking about going to down the Quick Hitch road for my 3pt implements. The bushing are expensive and I have 7 cat1 implements to setup and don't want to move bushings around.
1) where is the cheapest place to buy bushings?
2) I've read in another thread that instead of the expensive QH bushings to can nestle a cat1-2 bushing in a cat2-3 bushing and get the correct diameter. Is this true and what's the disadvantage to this?
3) you only need bushings for the lift arms not the top link, correct?
4) why is QH designed to need bushings in the first place?

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

BTW, I'm looking at the land pride/speedco/harbor freight style QH

 

[ovrszd]

I don't use the high dollar QH bushings. I just buy simple spacer bushings at the local Tractor Supply store. Can't remember cost, but it's pretty cheap. I carry a pair in the tractor tool box.

Yes, you can double stack the cheaper bushings.

If you want a tight fit, you need bushings in the top link also.

The issue of needing bushings has been debated many times here on TBN. Some will say it's a wear point. Some will say the QH has the ability to hitch to different sized implements if needed. Some will say it's easier to hitch to a CAT I implement with a CAT II sized QH hook. Take your pick.

Lastly, are you sure the Land Pride/Speedco/Harbor Freight QH is the same one??

 

[gwdixon]

Tractor Supply has reasonably priced bushings. However, I found them a bit cheaper at a Deere dealer. About $3 or less each.

If you try to put a CAT 1 implement on a CAT 2 or 3 Quick Hitch you will need a bushing (s) for the implement. However, on the QHs you are considering, they are stuck in CAT 1 dimensions so there won't be any hooking up to CAT 2 unless the implement is modified to CAT 1 width.

I would NEVER recommend a hitch with no adjustment for width. But then, my implements are CAT 1, CAT 2, and some homemade to CAT ?.

Pat's Quick Connect will hook up to just about anything. If you only have CAT 1 implements, you can buy hooks that size and not need any bushings.

My Pat's is CAT 2 and I changed the lift pins on my CAT 1 implements to CAT 2 lift pins. Once again, no bushings needed except for the CAT 2 top link.

What I am in the process of doing is plasma cutting a CAT 3 hole in the implement's top hole and welding in a CAT 2 top link adapter. Then it is perfectly set up for CAT 2.

I know this is too much information so pick out what you want.

 

[bcp]

2) I've read in another thread that instead of the expensive QH bushings to can nestle a cat1-2 bushing in a cat2-3 bushing and get the correct diameter. Is this true and what's the disadvantage to this?

Disadvantage is they can't sell you expensive bushings.



Bruce

 

[ovrszd]

If you try to put a CAT 2 implement on a CAT 1 Quick Hitch you will need a bushing for the implement.

Actually it's just the opposite. If you try to put a CAT I implement on a CAT II hitch you will need a bushing for the implement. If the width would work, you could hitch a CAT II implement to a CAT I QH without a bushing. But I've never saw the width work out.

And as discussed above, CAT I QH's are built with the lower hooks at CAT II size. So, again, if you want a tight fit, you will always need a bushing.

My CAT II QH has CAT III sized lower hooks.

I used a Pat's on a CAT I tractor. It's a great product for a tractor without extendable lower links. But it's not even close to a QH. Shouldn't even be considered as the same type of tool. There is not physical way possible to pick up a 3pt attachment with a Pat's without leaving the tractor seat. In my experiences, extendable lowers are just as easy to use as Pat's. But to each their own.

 

[murphy1244]

Northern tool had the for 12 bucks a set. I have a land pride cat 1 hitch which uses a cat 3 bushing .

 

[ovrszd]

Northern tool had the for 12 bucks a set. I have a land pride cat 1 hitch which uses a cat 3 bushing .

Murph, I've heard of that but never saw it, jump two CAT's.

 

[zoedog2012]

Northern tool had the for 12 bucks a set. I have a land pride cat 1 hitch which uses a cat 3 bushing .

on sale at northern now $ 10.99

 

[murphy1244]

Murph, I've heard of that but never saw it, jump two CAT's.

Easier for them to make a quality locking device on the pins. Bigger is better, right!?