TNT with quick hitch?

MtnViewRanch · Feb 27, 2011

SPYDERLK said:
Have you tilted it Its gotta be either wrenching the arms against the lift links and tractor ends ... or youre flexing the QH / both. Or its nothing like my HF hitches that just give barely enuf room to fit the balls.
larry

It has been tilted to the max and everything seemed fine to me. Maybe it is built differently? I'll try to remember to get pictures the next time I'm out to the ranch. (next week?)

galaxie428 · Feb 28, 2011

I don't know if a hydraulic side link has more range of motion than the adjustable side link on my 230 but I tried it yesterday as Notv8 suggested and I was able to put a pretty good angle on it without the QH interfering. I will have to look again and see what kind of spacing is in there for the lift arms but I was thinking I have a little bit of room.

SPYDERLK · Feb 28, 2011

galaxie428 said:
I don't know if a hydraulic side link has more range of motion than the adjustable side link on my 230 but I tried it yesterday as Notv8 suggested and I was able to put a pretty good angle on it without the QH interfering. I will have to look again and see what kind of spacing is in there for the lift arms but I was thinking I have a little bit of room.

In order to have full available tilt you need to be able to extend one side all the way while contracting the other all the way. A std 3pt allows that whereas the QHs Iv seen bind up early and distort parts of the mechanism as you force tilt with the hydraulics. Some are so bad as to do it with only a few degrees of tilt.

larry

MtnViewRanch · Feb 28, 2011

SPYDERLK said:
In order to have full available tilt you need to be able to extend one side all the way while contracting the other all the way. A std 3pt allows that whereas the QHs Iv seen bind up early and distort parts of the mechanism as you force tilt with the hydraulics. Some are so bad as to do it with only a few degrees of tilt.
larry

Larry, you do know that a lot of tractors do not have adjustable side links on both sides? I think that usually the 2 adjustable side link 3 pt hitch is on bigger tractors or maybe very deluxe machines. So yes in your scenario of one adjustable side collapsed all the way and the other side extended all the way, I could see where that might be a problem. Most people that have hydraulic side links only have them on one side and usually only adjust the hydraulic. I would think that it would be a very extreme situation where you would need to adjust both sides to the opposite extremes to achieve what was needed. I know that that situation has never come up for me.