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Topic: why B swing hitch missing center hole

Posted By: conservationmN
Subject: why B swing hitch missing center hole
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 5:54pm

Why isn't there a hole to pin the swing hitch to the center?

( Obviously I don't use my tractor for farming!)

Wally

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Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 6:03pm

Wouldn't be a 'swing' hitch then.

Might have something to do with the distance of the drawbar hole from the PTO.

G

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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 7:26pm

If you want it to not swing MUCH.. just drop a bolt in on each side of the bar and limit the travel to a couple inches... If you want it MORE SOLID.. bolt a small plate to each side so the bar can not move sideways.

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Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 7:36pm

if their was a hole in the center it would break in two in a haertbeat

Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2023 at 8:56pm

I think there's a bracket that can lock it to center, as others have said, if there was a center hole, breakage likely...

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Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2023 at 6:36am

Does your Original Drawbar have the 2 smaller holes, 1 hole each side of the larger Centre Hole, similar to the hitch in the picture I posted ?

If so, drop a bolt into each smaller hole.

G

Posted By: conservationmN
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2023 at 4:42pm

Thanks All, for the replys

This is a new tractor to me so I haven't much work for it yet. It seamed as if would be difficult to back up a trailer with the hitch swinging from side to side. I see the swing can easily be limited but wondered why not in the center.

Thanks
Wally

Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2023 at 9:13pm

The smaller Farmall’s (400, Super M, 656) where I worked years ago, all had ‘swinging drawbars, tho we never let them ‘swing’, two bolts with a plate under.

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Posted By: TramwayGuy
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2023 at 10:30pm

WD’s and ‘45s didn’t have a center hole, either. A clamp that straddled the drawbar, or just two bolts was used, depending on how rigid a connection needed.

Posted By: Dave (Mid-MI)
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2023 at 7:12pm

The swinging drawbar was an option that bolted to the regular drawbar, which is bolted to the final drives. If you don't need the swinging drawbar for your application, bolt it to one side and use the center hole in the regular drawbar.

Posted By: JSHIVERS
Date Posted: 17 Mar 2023 at 10:39am

I found out what a swing hitch was last summer at a tractor show

when I got too close and wracked my shin! Does that count?