Posted by Chris Jones on August 28, 2013 at 18:27:29 from (98.26.240.6):
This evening I was over my fathers and he was complaining it was really hard to hook up or unhook his 3pt tiller (recent purchase) from the tractor. There are several reasons. 1. We wanted to place it on something to keep it out of the dirt but the tractor doesn't lift it but like 8" off the ground and sometimes, somehow we can unhook it on a pallet then come back for it and can't get the lift arms up high enough to reattach it. 2. The tiller is so heavy we can't budge it by hand to line up the lift arms and pins--not even a little. 3. The compact JD 850 doesn't have a lot of room to move the lift arms off the pins and on the pins without hitting the tires or the sway chains stopping them. Add to this the tiller shifting to the side of the tractor that's lower before lowering it leaving that arm unable to be removed. 4. He, we have a hard time being be but so precise backing up to it for hookup--an inch matters a lot. 5. There seems to be nowhere perfectly level side to side and back to front to store it. 6. Usually it's only him attaching/un-attaching it. We decided to try things tonight. Frankly it was very hard for the two of us. Not to mention unsafe. Me standing between the tire and tiller holding the lift arm and him backing up a bit and lifting up or letting it down trying to line the pin and hole up. We feel the tiller should rest on the depth skids and not sit on the tines when stored but maybe that doesn't matter. Doing so leaves the frame so it will rock back and forth around the tines--it has to be propped up so it doesn't fall forward. Any comments/ideas? I'm sure others struggle with heavy implements as well--how do you deal with them? My father is 70 now so this isn't going to get any easier for him without some kind of idea. I actually thought of sitting the two skids on dollies allowing the implement to be moved a bit but that'd only work if it was on concrete but all we have is dirt. We have used cinder blocks under the skids which holds the tines off the ground and keeps the tiller rock solidly planted. And, we've tried setting the tines down on boards and propping the front of the frame up with a cinder block.
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