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Old 02-19-2023, 04:30 PM
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Do you have a sleeve hitch for your 149?



I bought a Craftsman weight rack and weights pretty cheap and adapted that to sit on the sleeve hitch. Since then I added a top bar to hold an additional 160# of JD suitcase weights. My tires are filled (an easy home job) one set of CC wheel weights and a home made wheel cover weights.

With all that the AG's still suck on ice. But I have a loader on it too.
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Old 02-19-2023, 05:57 PM
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Thanks for the photo Mr bob.

And I don’t have a sleeve hitch. Are they available anywhere or is it going to be a barn find to get one?
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Old 02-19-2023, 07:18 PM
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You have hydraulic deck lift, but I can’t tell if you have the lift at the back. If you do then a sleeve hitch would be handy anyway. Can be bought used or new. Mine is home made. Ignore the red cylinder, you won't have or need that. Just more home made stuff for extra lift.
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Old 02-19-2023, 07:50 PM
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I finally figured out my Picture Posting issues. Computers!

This is a pic of my 125 rear carrier that I made about 15 years ago. It carries a sprayer during the summer and iron weights in the winter for plowing traction weight. It's mounted using the same bolts that hold on the fenders. I was initially doubtful they had enough strength, but in 15 years have had no issues.

I don't think you can do one the same way on later models, but this is what I did. It has wheel weights plus the carrier with about 200 lbs of iron (plus me on the seat) and chains and it will still spin sometimes.



Since this pic was taken, Ag tires were installed on the rear, additional cross chains were added and it now has a cross chain on every other side link. It also has had a hydraulic lift added to replace the strongarm lift.
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You have hydraulic deck lift, but I can’t tell if you have the lift at the back. If you do then a sleeve hitch would be handy anyway. Can be bought used or new. Mine is home made. Ignore the red cylinder, you won't have or need that. Just more home made stuff for extra lift.
Here's a photo while I was doing the restoration. I don't think I have any sort of rear lift.
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Old 02-19-2023, 11:04 PM
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No, you don't have the rear lift. You could get it all but for just adding weight then probably easiest is to bolt a platform to the back. Set the platform on the hitch then put a brace (flat bar or chain) on each side from the platform to the two large holes near the top and back of the frame. Run a bolt through the platform and the hole in the hitch to keep it from sloshing around. Just a couple layers of 3/4" plywood will be adequate.
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Old 02-20-2023, 04:40 PM
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Following this tangent, how do I put a weight rack on a 149?
I leave the tiller gearbox on my 169 year-round and made a weight rack that pins into the bottom factory holes and hooks over the top factory pins up above. The fellow that owned it before me added brackets to the bottom of the tiller gearbox for extra strength, so it attaches through quite a few bolts to the diff case. I think you'll either have to fab something up or else find a vendor like Extreme Motorworks that sells something that would work for you.
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