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Allan in NE · Aug 4, 2012

Don't care if the IH police are watchin'. I got 'er all "legal" now. :>)

Oh, and I mispoke yeasterday. Aftermarket pins and click pins weren't made in China; clearly states they were manufactured in India. I feel soo much better now. :>)

Allan

rustyfarmall · Aug 4, 2012

Yes, a LOT of that stuff is made in India, which is better than China, but still doesn't compare to good ol' "made in U.S.A.".

wijim · Aug 4, 2012

I see you must have read the book. LOL Just had to say that.

TomH in PA · Aug 4, 2012

I think the difference between India and China is that China can make good quality if the importer demands it (and rejects substandard, which few do). India will send what they make and insist it's up to standard.

Billy NY · Aug 4, 2012

Those darned things by virtue of how they work let alone suspect or defective materials are junk, well they work, but how many times have I lost the connection to an implement, all of that hardware and 3 pt hitch connections makes you constantly glance back and give every thing the once over, always a .25 cent part that causes hundreds or more in repairs, I'm glad it did not hit that tire on ya, (1 FER ALLAN 0 for PLOW LOL !!!) and what you have sure looks more secure.

Had tightened everthing up on this culitipacker, replaced 1 or 2 bolts, and it still came apart, I only went that far, as I have a habit of looking back, all said and done, a couple of weld washers and tack welds in appropriate places, solved that problem for good, always some ridiculous miniscule little part takes down the whole darned show !!! LOL !!!!

Allan in NE · Aug 4, 2012

My dad had one of those back in the 50's. Used it to bust crust on baby beets.

They'll always be a 'beet roller' to me. :>)

Allan

Billy NY · Aug 4, 2012

LOL, beet roller it is ! Around here in this soil they're good for finishing newly planted hay fields, pastures, alfalfa, oats, wheat, rye or barley, it kind of pushes smaller rocks down a little, if the field tillage is done right, this double roller sure does leave things nice, you can see what rocks you need to pick, know you have a clean field, cause theres always rocks, and they are no fun in a grain head, I've even snuck it into my food plots and rolled my lawn with it.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2012

That there is a culipacker. You pulls it behind a disk ta bust clods.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 4, 2012

Fast hitches never came loose

oldtanker · Aug 4, 2012

(quoted from post at 17:54:48 08/04/12) Fast hitches never came loose

I suppose you can prove that it never happened? Moot point anyway. If IH hadn't been greedy thinking that all the IH guys were going to buy all new implements to go with a new tractor and all those implements were going to be red.....maybe the fast hitch would still be available. When my sister married her husband in 73 his father and him were farming with 3 560D's with the fast hitch and a 826. They had NO fast hitch implements. Old Willard would never have stood still for a company dictating to him he had to by thier stuff. I also know that around here the farmers didn't much care for IH implements and considered them to be of poor quality for certain ones. Diggers and disk were considered the worst. BIL and his dad had 2 disk, one Kawanee and a JD, 2 plows, one Melroe and a Deer both semi mount. They had adapters to convert the fast hitch to 3 point stuff. Come to think of it thier cultivator was a Deer too.

Back to the solved problem....good to see that you got it going.

Rick

Allan in NE · Aug 5, 2012

Trouble is,

A fast hitch won't lift much weight before it tears the implement hitch all to he!!.

That's why they were abandoned by IH. :>)

Allan

oldtanker · Aug 5, 2012

I will give IH credit, at least the Fast Hitch system wasn't killing or causing serious injury to people like the AC Snap Coupler did. The Snap Coupler wasn't a bad design but it relied on the owner/user doing proper maintenance and periodic inspections. With some of the farmer I knew in the early 70's that was a joke. Then doing any inspections consisted of looking out the window and saying yup, still there. And maintaining something ment checking the oil and greasing it every now and then. Seeing if the belt on that old Chevy or Ford setting in the wood line would fit the tractor. Heck one guy I baled hay for bragged about saving money by using the used oil from his diesel tractors in his car and pickup and you could not convince him that it wasn't a great idea.

Rick

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