Re: what happend to fast hitch

Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 16, 2006 at 03:23:21 from (216.208.58.136):

In Reply to: what happend to fast hitch posted by Joe werner on March 15, 2006 at 18:33:13:

Joe: IH did the world a favour by not selling the rights to fast hitch. To start with Harry Ferguson had won the hitch war before IH built and marketed the first fast hitch on the Super C back in 1952. Fast hitch was great on small tractors from size of Super C on down. The one point on the offsets is excellent.

If however you go to the larger tractors, fast hitch was little more than junk. I had one on a 560D, by the time it was 5 year old the hitch was so loose, it wasn't safe to use on pull type PTO equipment. The fact it also served as the drawbar on pull type implements, made it somewhat like pulling a PTO driven baler with 2' piece of chain. One could rebuild the pins and holes, but that would only last about 1 year and you were rebuilding again. I cut my 560 fast hitch up for scrap before it was 10 years old. I ordered a new U and swinging drawbar from IH.

Now there were two good principles came out of Fast Hitch and were later applied to 3 point. Yes Harry Ferguson may have designed 3 point hitch but IH perfected it with lower link sencing for draft control, and the telescoping lower link, which make for easy hitching.

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