About Allan's 3-point picture

(I couldn't subject this post "Hey, Allan." There are too many of those already. {insert grin})
In a picture you posted below I notice the end of the bottom arms has a catch similar to the one on on a Fasthitch. I remember that all the big Farmalls with which I was familiar ('06, '56 models, after those I fell off the planet for a few decades.)had that. I thought then that these were so that you could take them out and still use your old Fasthitch implements.Is that right, or was it to make it easy to switch between Cat. 1, 2, and 3 implements? Or something else?
Wm

Neither one. They are there to allow easy hookup to the implement.

When a guy is hooking up, you park the tractor "close" to the implement. You can then lift those "snatch blocks" and it will let the ball ends slide rearward another few inches.

They are spring loaded so that once the implement is 'hooked', ya just crawl back on the tractor and back up. The ball ends then will slide into the arms and the pull blocks snap closed.

They really work slick once you get the hang of using 'em. :>)

Have a good one,

Allan

I used chain saws for years and years until someone finally showed me one day that there was a rope ya pulled and the darned things would start makin' noise. :>)

Allan

I spent two full days diggin' the dirt and crap outta these arms. They were fronzen solid and after soaking them in penetrating oil, I had to hook to another tractor to get them to break free.

Allan

I always thought that darned dog was tryin' to tell me somethin', but I was never smart enough to figure out just what.

I thought he was upset because I was backin' the left rear tire into a loader tooth. :>)

Allan