Whats missing (Sleeve Hitch)

[Merk]

Originally Posted by yourshoesareuntied

Thanks again everyone, I now have a lower hitch link sourced, and love the idea of keeping my tiller equipment on, so I can't wait to get some of Jeff's work.

Merk: Can you tell me about the the differences in the slotted lift bars vs the drilled? I have a plow, Disk, cultivator, and a spiked harrow.

The soil here is normally pretty sandy, got to go deep to get to the red clay.

Thanks. Ben

Ben,
IH and/or Brinly never had the drilled lift bars on their sleeve hitch adapter. as an option. They only had the sloted version.

The drill bars have no give in them. There could be hard spots in the soil you are working that can and will cause the implement to want to come out of the ground or make the rear wheels light enough to have traction problems.

The slotted bars has some give built in them. The soil has some high and lows spots no matter how flat it looks. It save wear and tear on your tractor.

I went to plow days and followed tractors with drilled lift bars. The bars are usually bowed/bent and did what I posted in an earlier paragraph.

The hitch that Jeff sells is a well built hitch. Jeff added some length so you didn't have to remove the tiller drive. The added support in the area that the lift straps is the way to go.