Quick Hitch disappointment

[Jack Yuan]

Jim, thanks. I don't know, not sure it lists much info online. I understand I-match, almost bought a JD 4 series to get it. Very nice.
I can't do the heavy lifting anymore. Too many operations. but I'll figure it out. One of the absolute requirements of the big barn at my next home, next Spring I hope, will be an area I can back up and easily get implements on. Even if i have to use dolleys, an overhead crane, whatever it takes, horsing a 500-1000 pound implement around on dry ground is just too hard on me. And then I constantly have to get up, get down, get up, get down to adjust the lift, as I can't reach it from outside.
A genuine PITA.
I had friends help me get the ballast box on, and they were totally new to this, and when done one guy looked at me and said "this is nuts".
Of course the ballast box with weight in it had gotten turned around, and we finally had to unload all the weight and then attach it.
Where is all the click click plug and play I was told about?...

I've read enough threads where I know there is incompatibility everywhere, so this is nothing new.
At least the Land Pride hitch was made in Kansas. I think. I hope...

made in Kansas, yes, we hope :laughing:

 

[Jack Yuan]

Daugen, I've only seen ONE QH that looks to solve these problems sensibly, and it may have been discontinued - I've not been able to find it on Priefert's site the last couple of times I've looked, luckily I "borrowed" the pic before it disappeared. One of my hundreds of proposed projects is to mod my HF qh's (I have 3) with at least the toplink they used - so far, I've not run into an implement that's too far off width-wise.

Note that top hook height AND draw pin width are adjustable on this one... Steve

impressive photo :thumbsup:

 

[ovrszd]

made in Kansas, yes, we hope :laughing:

What have you been up to Jack???? Haven't heard much out of you for a while. Hope things are well over there. We sent the First Lady over to entertain you folks. You can keep her if you like....

 

[GManBart]

I think Pat's Quick Hitch does nearly as much, with more flexibility, for less $.

 

[ovrszd]

I think Pat's Quick Hitch does nearly as much, with more flexibility, for less $.

Yep, it does 66% as much. I guess you could call that "nearly". Impossible to pick up a 3pt attachment and move it with a Pat's without getting off the tractor. You can actually buy a HF QH CAT I for less money than a Pat's.

 

[Dutch445]

Yep, it does 66% as much. I guess you could call that "nearly". Impossible to pick up a 3pt attachment and move it with a Pat's without getting off the tractor. You can actually buy a HF QH CAT I for less money than a Pat's.

agreed, but, Pat's easy change will fit a wider range of implements without modifying them. and since a lot of the implements require the operator to
jump off to hook up the PTO shaft, the top link isn't an issue. but rakes/blades will require that extra step.
all comes down to what the individual is doing and what works best for his operation.

 

[Guesseral]

agreed, but, Pat's easy change will fit a wider range of implements without modifying them. and since a lot of the implements require the operator to
jump off to hook up the PTO shaft, the top link isn't an issue. but rakes/blades will require that extra step.
all comes down to what the individual is doing and what works best for his operation.

Don't you also have to install a spreader bar between the two lower arms, that may have to be adjusted for different implements? I am not real sure on this just seem to remember something like that.

 

[GManBart]

Yep, it does 66% as much. I guess you could call that "nearly". Impossible to pick up a 3pt attachment and move it with a Pat's without getting off the tractor. You can actually buy a HF QH CAT I for less money than a Pat's.

Sure, but if the OP had a Pat's Easy Change, it would have fit, and this thread wouldn't exist. I don't care about having to get off the seat....I frequently have to do that to hook up the PTO anyway.

I think the reality is, there's no perfect fix for the issue. I simply don't want to have to struggle to hook up the lift arms, and Pat's system makes it a snap, and with a hydraulic top link, the whole process is painless...for my uses anyway.

 

[GManBart]

Don't you also have to install a spreader bar between the two lower arms, that may have to be adjusted for different implements? I am not real sure on this just seem to remember something like that.

It's optional...sometimes it's handy, sometimes it seems to be in the way. I generally don't use mine....back up, lightly bump the lift arm ends (the Pat's part) on the implement, and they spread open.

 

[daugen]

ok, a little more fuel for the what's this all going to cost me discussion.
because of two recent operations on my wrist and elbow, I can't do any of this stuff for a while, so
I told the dealer to fix it, resolve the problem.

They did, for $361.19 including the 22 dollar pair of new pins and several hours of welding.
Or several hours of something. Likely they had to take all the weights out, that didn't please them
for sure. A real potpourri of toe breakers in there, big stones, gym weights, etc. And then they had to put it all back in.
I bet they did so nicely. I would expect for the bill that my gym weights might even be aligned, perhaps with a laser...

So...if you are a non welding not too handy person, like myself, at the moment, and you have six implements, and three won't fit.
That's a thousand bucks of added cost.
I would never do this again...I just need to see what they did and how they did it, not too complicated here, and repeat it likely somewhere else. I don't have any
grade two implements other than my big Land Pride mower which will work on both. Wouldn't it be amazing, perhaps amazingly aggravating, if it would work on both 1 and 2 pins but not the adapter? And both LandPride... Boy, that's next. I have a new welder and needed the excuse to weld. And my arm will be strong enough later this summer to weld, so good way to do what I wanted to do anyway. At 350 a pop I'm sure not going to sub this out again.

so when you do your worst case scenarios, there's a labor number. Hmmm. About the same as that fancy new adapter.
Not if you can weld...and I needed a good reason to start.