My first home-made Fast-Hitch implement...

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clm2112

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Busy day today, but I feel I accomplished something.

I have a number of items around the farm that mount in a 2" receiver hitch. One or two of them would be handy on the back of the Cub, so today's project was to create a fast-hitch implement with a 2" receiver hitch socket. Turned out to be pretty easy. I had purchased a fast-hitch point off eBay a few years ago, so most of the task was cutting and welding it together. A steel pin connects the receiver tube to the fast-hitch point, so just in case my welds are not up to snuff, the pin will keep it from seperating.

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First item to put on was the "luggage rack"... for lugging chainsaws and tools out the trails around the farm. :)

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I went a little simpler & cheaper on mine when I made it a couple years ago. I use mine a lot for moving trailers. Works great being tucked up next to tractor.
 

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That is clever, I hadn't thought of adding tabs to the receiver tube and mounting it under the drawbar.
 
clm2112":1l7vit0y said:
That is clever, I hadn't thought of adding tabs to the receiver tube and mounting it under the drawbar.
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I got the idea from my brother, he made one for one of his 140's and when I acquired the fast hitch I made it.
 
Spent some quality time communing with the MIG welder yesterday, end result was finishing my receiver hitch with a tool rack. Had enough scrap steel laying about to make the pieces. Enough space to take a few hand tools out in the field with me. (Probably just a shovel and hoe, maybe a steel rake or a cant hook if I'm out in the woods sawing trees.)

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Not my deer... I just did the body disposal job for a friend of the family who was hunting on the farm. (I didn't bother to get an Archery or Muzzle-loader license this year, just regular rifle... so I have to wait until December)
 
Love the rack and the rack.

Been trying to figure out a way to carry tools (shovels etc) on a fast hitch with 2" pvc or something. Always seem to have a mower in the fast hitch.
 
Buzzard Wing":fi9xl9to said:
Love the rack and the rack.

Been trying to figure out a way to carry tools (shovels etc) on a fast hitch with 2" pvc or something. Always seem to have a mower in the fast hitch.
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The OBVIOUS answer to that is another tractor with a fast hitch!!! Oh, did I mention that I just happened to have one for sale?!! :{_}:
 
Buzzard Wing":usd7umvy said:
Been trying to figure out a way to carry tools (shovels etc) on a fast hitch with 2" pvc or something.
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Could put something like this into one of the front hitches.
 

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No shortage of tractors.... shovels don't stay put in the loader's bucket. A rack is a useful item, but too many projects for that to happen.
 
Buzzard Wing":morxxmxv said:
Love the rack and the rack.

Been trying to figure out a way to carry tools (shovels etc) on a fast hitch with 2" pvc or something.
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Doesn't work so much on a Cub but you can carry a lot of stuff between the gearshift and the fender on a Super A--140 unless you are worried about paint...

Al
 
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