Question....
 

I was wondering if anyone knew how long the lift arms are on a factory 3 point hitch? Or the optimal length on any 3 point?

Which model?
are you inquiring about the brinly sleeve hitch?

Cat O three point hitch????:bigthink:

Yes çat 0 I saw a setup built allowing the use of the Brinley set up still. His lift arms look to be too long. It's a pretty neat set up because it uses the upper portion of the rear lift via the pin hole.

I saw that on facebook too. Cool idea, but I think it needs some tweaking. For one when finished it was sitting on the ground. I can tell by looking at it that it's not going to lift high enough to do anything. I think his arms look really long because on a normal cat 0 the arms go under the tractor a little bit, where his only go the back of the rear end. I think he was onto a good idea, but all the kinks are not worked out yet. I'll go out it a minute and measure my lower arms if nobody beats me to it.

My lower arms are 21" long. This is on a factory 3 point on my 2082.

Thanks, yeah I think his are way too long. He does have a pic of it mounted. I am thinking he's going to have to adjust the turnbuckle up some more to get decent lift with the arms that long. It may surprise us though and lift 1000#....
Mind you I don't think so but would be cool if it did...

Nope. It takes a lot of tweeking to make the lift travel right and still have enough umph to lift anything. It might be lucky to lift 250 lbs... just my .02

Also having the arms out that long puts your attachments really far back, not a good thing, moves the weight far enough back that it takes the front end off the ground if the hydraulics will lift it

Agreed. I think it's going to lift more like 100 lbs tops how it is set up now. Again, great idea. Just needs a little work.