Using a quick hitch with a post hole digger?

[etpm]

I don't have tractor access to most of my fence due to boulders. The rest is easy to dig, so I don't have a post hole digger.

But my plan, if needed, was to modify the PHD boom to fit the top of the quick hitch, and take the place of the top link.

The top link would be removed and the boom of the PHD would mount on top of the quick hitch and replace the top link.

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Bruce

Greetings Bruce,
I thought your idea would work but after looking at it some more I realized that it would severely limit the distance up and down of the auger. The boom is like a teeter totter with an off center fulcrum. The long boom must pivot at the end. and the arch must also pivot about the mounting pins because the angle changes as the boom moves up and down. But maybe the arch could be replaced with the quick hitch if a sliding connection instead of a pin pivot is used.
Thanks,
Eric

 

[TractorGuy]

I don't see any way to make it work. My finish mower even has driveshaft clearance issues with the quick hitch. If I lower the 3 pt too much the shaft contacts the cross bar of the QH. When I get it so it doesn't contact it doesn't have full float and picks the front wheels up on bumps. When it does that it leaves a spot of uncut grass.

 

[etpm]

I wouldn't chop up the PHD and kill its resale value. I wonder if you could pull that hinge pin, set aside the arch, and make a new hinge saddle bolted on top of the quick hitch.

I'm not worried about resale value, I intend to keep the PHD, along with the tractor and the other implements, until I die. then my son can have them. I know a lot of folks do consider resale whenever they buy a car or a piece of equipment. I'm not like that. I don't drive a car for a few years and then sell it when I buy a new car. I just drive the car until the wheels are about to fall off and then I give the car away. The PHD is so robust I don't think iI'll ever wear it out. It is rated for twice the HP of my YM2310. I do like your saddle idea it is a good one because I will need some sort of sliding joint if I replace the arch with the quick hitch.

 

[California]

... like your saddle idea it is a good one because I will need some sort of sliding joint if I replace the arch with the quick hitch.

I should have been clearer that the PHD would serve as the only top link, the normal one would be set aside. To mount, lay the QH back nearly horizontal then slip the hinge pin in between the PHD and the new saddle bolted on the 'top' of the QH. Then rassle the PHD into the tractor's top link fitting.

But verify all this with actual measurements. It might not work at all!