My late Uncle liked to make things from used grader blades. (Cheap.)
Two hitches he made fatigued and snapped over time, one on the back of a truck to pull a small gravity box, and a hitch on the back of a DEERE "CCA" cultivator to pull a 14' disc grain drill.
YAMMV, but from those experiences, using grader blades as hitches or drawbars could have turned out to be DEADLY when they failed.
The gravity box was being pulled 10 or 12 MPH to get a ton or two of fertilizer home and in the shed at the start of a thunderstorm, and instead it wound up on it's side in the ditch! What a MESS!
When the drill/cultivator hitch broke, the hydraulic coupler barrels were mounted to it so the hoses back to the couplers tore fittings off when the hitch broke. NOT a pleasant scene, either.
(NOT being critical of your project, just relating a couple of life experiences!)
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