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[WinterDeere]

5906 posts and you are yet still somehow unaware that you clearly need a second tractor?!?! Turn in your TBN card, sir!

lol... it's worse than that. I have had two tractors three different times in my life!

The trouble is, no matter how much storage space you have, there's always one more toy vying for the space where that second tractor might park.

So, is there any drawbar or socket for a hitch, under the Deere backhoes? Seems I can't be the only person on earth to maybe want to still tow trailers, when the backhoe is installed.

 

[LouNY]

lol... it's worse than that. I have had two tractors three different times in my life!

The trouble is, no matter how much storage space you have, there's always one more toy vying for the space where that second tractor might park.

So, is there any drawbar or socket for a hitch, under the Deere backhoes? Seems I can't be the only person on earth to maybe want to still tow trailers, when the backhoe is installed.

It seems to me that to tow a trailer with the back hoe mounted you will need to fabricate a hitch that fits into or on the backhoe bucket. Or possibly make a tow dolly that would fit the tractors drawbar with a long tongue back to an axle with the towed trailer fastened to it. Some thing like this would need a very low tongue of the hoe would contact it on any dips or inclines.

 

[WinterDeere]

It seems to me that to tow a trailer with the back hoe mounted you will need to fabricate a hitch that fits into or on the backhoe bucket. Or possibly make a tow dolly that would fit the tractors drawbar with a long tongue back to an axle with the towed trailer fastened to it. Some thing like this would need a very low tongue of the hoe would contact it on any dips or inclines.

The backhoe brackets replace the drawbar bracket under the axle, so I permanently lose that if I add a backhoe to the tractor. I'm not sure if there's still a means to add a drawbar to the backhoe brackets, or if you permanently lose the ability to tow via drawbar after adding the backhoe mounting brackets to the tractor... I guess I should learn about that.

But you'd think it should be possible to add a drawbar mounting bracket to the bottom of the backhoe, just as I added one to my ballast box. My primary means of towing today is via the hitch receiver that's welded onto the back of my ballast box.

Ideally, I'd be able to park the trailer next to where I'm working, dig and dump into the trailer. Then when full, back up to the trailer, hitch on and connect the power beyond loop, and drive it to my dump site, before reversing the whole operation.

 

[masscity]

I know my fabricator could mount a drawbar on the bottom of BH, I've thought about it. So far, no need. I would never mount a trailer hitch to my BH bucket and having the stick cylinder holding it in position.

I do it with my 4 wheeler, but it only weighs 600 lbs.

 

[civilian]

On my Kubota B26TLB, I have a removable bucket on the backhoe. It is mainly uses a pin to lock the bucket into place with a pin keeper. I would like to think a longer pin and some additional brackets could mount a trailer ball or hitch pin.

Or are you loading the trailer with the loader bucket or backhoe bucket? And how far traveling with the trailer? HItch ball in lodaer bucket? Just some ideas. Jon

 

[WinterDeere]

Thinking is to load trailer primarily with backhoe, but I'm sure the opportunity to load with loader while backhoe is mounted will also come up.

Like masscity, I suspect that pushing and pulling a 4000 lb. trailer around a very hilly property, with anything mounted to the end of the backhoe arm, is a recipe for over-stressing the backhoe or possibly even tipping the tractor, depending on height and length of lever arm.

I could manage by not loading the trailer so heavy. But often when in the middle of a project, we can have momentary lapses in judgement that lead to heavy loads.

 

[Runner]

I have a hitch that clamps onto the bucket, one of the heavier ones made, but I'd not trust it with a 4000 lb. trailer load of dirt on a hill.

Couple of questions:

What is your concern with using a hitch ball on the loader bucket? Are you concerned with the strength of the bucket or the loader?

Suggestions:
If you were towing less weight, would you then be willing to use the loader for the hitch? If so, can't you just put less dirt in the trailer and make more trips?

If you are concerned with the strength of the bucket for towing, it might be easier to make a loader mounted quick hitch to mount the receiver/hitch on. I pull all kind of stuff around with mine (no, I wouldn't pull a 5000lb boat around on a hill with it, but you get the idea).

 

[KennyG]

I've got a loader mounted QH for my tractor. Of course, you don't have a bucket when it's in use, but it seems about as stable as a rear hitch when towing.

 

[Runner]

I've got a loader mounted QH for my tractor. Of course, you don't have a bucket when it's in use, but it seems about as stable as a rear hitch when towing.

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I like your design!

 

[LouNY]

I have a similar unit;
I very seldom use it, and I quickly found out that I needed to use my camera when trying to hook up to it.