Posted by Bill VA on April 14, 2015 at 14:50:33 from (76.3.243.86):
I've been looking at some youtube videos of various fast hitch and snap coupler hitch set-ups and of course, everything I've got is a 3 point hitch - so it's been an interesting/eye opening look-see at what other manufacturing companies were doing in the day for a mounted implement.
As I get older, I can see there will come a time when wrestling with a 3 point hitch implement to get it mounted is going to be somewhat more difficult - even with a bigger hammer - LOL!
It made me think back in the day when when a man farmed by himself, small farm - no hired hands (maybe his kids) and wrestling with plows, disks and other tractor pulled equipment - AND how they managed.
It makes me wonder if folks like IH, JD (pre 3-point hitch), AC, etc., purposely made implements that were basically draw bar pulled vs mounted for ease of attachment. And then as time went by and hydraulics came-in - a fast hitch or snap coupler hitch (at least from what I can see on some videos) could enable the feeblest of farmer to mount an implement by themselves and get-on with the day's work.
I grew up around 3 point hitch tractors - but I can see the advantage/ease of a fast hitch or snap coupler arrangement. I suppose newer 3 point hitches with flexible ends on the lift arms help eliminate the kicking and pulling that I'm use to and maybe ease attaching something to a tractor.
But...
I wonder if the tractor mfg's were trying to give the small farmer a one man/easy attachment system from the get-go or fast hitches and quick couplers were just the way around a 3 point hitch patent. They just happened to be easier (or maybe not).
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