2 questions

Second question: I need to fashion some sort of a wagon to the back of my 8N for hauling wood. Any suggestions? Any local guys know where I can buy one? There is a thing at the bottom diferential that looks like a sort of trailer hitch, but there is no way to get a bolt through there. I know it is part of the swinging drawbar setup, but I don't understand how it works. If I could figure it out, I would like to try to use the wagon I have for my lawnmower (the lawnmower dosen't have too much traction in the snow). Thanks for the help!!!----Rob

Soundguy

As Phil indicated, you either need to fabricate a stabilizer that keeps your 3pt drawbar from rotating, OR buy a 3pt hitch receiver made specifically for a trailer ball, OR finish assembling your towbar.

You'll find that you nned a bar that goes up into that narrow area under the diffy. then you can slide a pin up thru and use a hairpin to secure it.. pin only needs to be 2" long or so... I ended up using a cat 2 toplink pin I think.. and cutting it down.

The towbar than sets atop your 3pt drawbar, and uses various stailizer methods.. I've seen many different setups. Phil has a couple good shots.
A suitable tow bar is available at tractor supply. On mine I then used a 'U' bolt to limit the towbars movement on the 3pt drawbar.... works well enough

Alternately, you can weld a cheapy one up like I did for my NAA... the ugly bracket I made is merely a piece of rebar bent 90', and has two pieces of 2" ibeam welded to it. The ibeam on the 'top' saddles one of the lower lift arms, and attatches with a u-bolt. the other ibeam saddles the 3pt drawbar, and has a bolt welded to the bottom of it that aligns in one of the drawbars holes. then add a washer and locknut, etc.. and it is mounted... the drawbar cannot rotate in relation to thelower lift arm... keep in mind.. if you lift the lower lift arms.. you will change the angle of the drawbar.. so i always ran mine with the lift in the down position.. worked greak on a hay ride...
This one is quick and dirty.. and was made from 100% free scrap iron I 'liberated' from my day jobs scrap heap... The only thing uglier than the design.. is my welding skills.. or lack therof.

Soundguy

the trailor would be hard attach to the drawbar. unless you made a custom plate that keeps it from tilting..(ask soundguy about it) . if you go to any home depote or lowes, or even a auto part store. they ussilly have some cheep tralors that you can buy. or trailor kits. the thing on the bottom of the diffy is were your tow bar hooks up to. i will post a pic in a second if i can...hth

Tow bar. this will be a good hitch for a trailor

The drawbar under the differential attaches to a plate that looks like this. There is a pin that goes into a hole that has two pins through it and is turned 90 degrees after it is inserted.
hope this helps. Don

• Draw bar pin

Good to hear from you.

Soundguy

there is a pin that should go through the 2 and keep it in place... im look for a better picture