KennyG
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Why on earth would they produce a product like that and not make it Quick Hitch compatible?
Quick Hitch Suitcase Weights
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Gordon Gould
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I didn't realize it wasn't. Don't have a Q-H myself. What is the problem - just curious ?
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KennyG
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The distance between the lower and upper pins are 18" which is the 3 point standard. Quick Hitches are 15". Compatible implements have holes to put the upper pin at either dimension. Even if you drilled new holes in that device, the vertical plate would prevent the QH hook from getting under lowered pin. If you have a QH with an adjustable hook, you could use that implement, but it would have been just as easy to make it QH compatible.
As far as Quick Hitch compatible - I don’t have the thread reference, but recall reading in the forum (I think here) that the Quick Hitches themselves don’t necessarily have standard uniform specs - If I recall, there was someone w/ a mower that attached to one brand of Quick Hitch w/ no issues, but had to modify his other one to make it work on another tractor.
Fallon
Super Member
I made a ballast box out of an old air compressor tank. QH compatible, although the top hook just grabbed a hole in the tank rather than a pin. Used it maybe once in the past decade. Just easier to leave whatever implement was last on, or grab the next implement. Only once did I need ballast & have space constraints not letting me use a normal implement.
Others may need the compact ballast box more often. But it's not worth the space to store it for me.
Others may need the compact ballast box more often. But it's not worth the space to store it for me.
