7060 drawbar

if your looking for a new drawbar thair is a 7060 for parts in watertown NY on Craigslist a few days ago. 

As large as those drawbars were, they were NOT very strong and were NOT heat treated. A drawbar from an 8070 is heat treated and is stronger and maybe a 7080 is as well.  It may be just as well to build a brace to go to the top link bracket of the three point so you don't have to depend on hydraulics to hold it.....hard part would be making it wide enough to still use your PTO.

I would say it will fit in the same hanger.  If not, get the hanger with the drawbar.  Unless they changed from a 7080 to an 8070..it should be the same for all 7000/8000 series.

Alot of drawbars die under big-balers.  I've seen them with mild steel bracing on Deeres.  If I was pulling heavy loads with AC I would build a channel brace under the draw bar and run it from up front to almost the back and bolt under where the hanger is.  Maybe remove the draw bar hanger all together.  We had one break under a 5000 gallon manure spreader, but thats really pushing the limits of good luck anyways.

We've had our Brent 772 cart behind the 7045, 7060, 8050.  Never moved it farther than a few feet to load the semi.  My opinion is way too much weight for drawbar to handle.  Loaded weight is between 40-50,000 lbs, plus the weight of the cart.  Driving across the field with the load bouncing even slightly will keep snapping the drawbar, I would think.  On John Deere tractors, there is a HD drawbar option, which is the regular drawbar with a chunk of steel or cast bolted to the bottom of it.  The 7580 drawbar wouldn't be overkill for that application, it's about what is needed.

If it is truly an 8070 drawbar, it will be stronger. Will it be strong enough?? .... I have no idea what the tongue weight is and probably you don't either. You still may need extra bracing/support.

I just kind of thought of this, but do you have the draw bar in as far as it will go?  I know on our Ford tractors there are 3 holes for usable positions (4 counting the hole for all the way in like when you have a plow) (16" 14" and another one pretty far up that is like 8" behind the PTO).  That 3rd one is used for heavy tongue loads, not for PTO work, as it is the wrong geometry for an equal angle drive.  Not sure if that is the case with the Allis drawbars or not, but even if not, it might be worth considering drilling a 3rd hole that moves the drawbar in closer to the tractor to keep less of a bending moment on the drawbar.