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Red: It was both in my opinion, Harry Ferguson had won the hitch war before IH sold it's first fast hitch. Then there is the case that IH thought they were going to hold farmers to buying exclusively IH implements, stupid mistake, farmers back then were much too independant for that nonsence. Add to that the 30-50 and 40-60 fast hitches, probably the poorest draft control in history. Finally for anyone doing PTO drawbar and heavy tillage drawbar work with big tractors like 300, 400, 350, 450, 460 and 560, buy the time the tractor had 3,000 hours on it the hitch was so loose, it was much like pulling the baler or forage harvester with a 4' chain. This was hard on PTO drive lines. One could rebuild the pins and pin holes, however he was luckey to get one season and the hitch was loose as ever. I had a 560, and I cut the fast hitch up for scrap before the tractor was 10 years old. Went to IH dealer and bought a new U and swinging drawbar. Another mistake all American row crop manufacturers made was trying to use mounted equipment fast hitch or 3 point hitch, without moving operator platform forward, thus allowing room for hitches to operate and raise equipment as high as needed. Couple that with the fact of mounting and dismounting tractor over the back. I never slipped in my life climbing on a Farmall with U drawbar. I still have scars for crawling over fast hitch. IH wasn't the only one to make that mistake. Oliver, Deere, Cockshutt, MH, etc were every bit as bad on that one.
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