Weight of Fast Hitch

Anonymous-0 · Sep 29, 2008

I would like to remove the fast hitch on the 300 so I can get into a lighter class when I pull. How much does it weigh the entire unit? I want to put a standard hitch like an M has on it so we can still use it on the farm. Will any H or M work? I assume that any number series will work(ie 300,350,400,450)

rustyfarmall · Sep 29, 2008

Don't know what that fast hitch weighs, but for sure it weighs a bunch more than a standard drawbar set-up. Pretty sure that those standard drawbars will all interchange from the H right up through the 560, but some of the later Ms (super Ms)? did have a thicker, heavier horseshoe, and also bigger, heavier bolts that clamp around the axle housing, but I think they will all still interchange.

the tractor vet · Sep 29, 2008

Would have to come off and H as a M chassie is wider . Now no being a know it all here myself when i was pullen i have always done far better with the fast hitch then the straight draw bar but that was me . I did it one time with my 450 D where my buddy and i removed the fast hitch off our 450D's to make it into the 6000 double tree class was a bunch of work just for a ribbon . Won may pulls off the fast hitch on the old 450D my one buddy has a 706 gas narrow ft. 16.9x38 rears clamshell fenders and fast hitch and has won more farm stock dead weight pulls with that tractor then any body from the 8500 wright on up thru 14500 . One of the local pulls asked him not to come back with that tractor after the second year of taking all the classes. Same goes with my 806 D with narrow ft and fast hitch first pull it did took the 14500 class on a muddy sloppy track with over 20000 lbs on the sled plus one fat boy on top of all the weight as that was the last thing they could find trying to get me and a 1256 out . Make more POWER and work with what ya got and learn how to use it.

rustyfarmall · Sep 29, 2008

I've got 3 Hs, and 1 M out in the shed. I just now went and measured all of them. Unless my stanley tape measure is lying, they are all the same, and will interchange.

Farmall Freak #1 · Sep 29, 2008

I have the fast hitch on my 300 and I make the 5500 pound class with a set of rear weights. It has always done way better than my straight drawbar tractors mostly because you can get it right to the max height and make adjustments with the touch of a lever. If I was going to cut weight I would put tin wheels and 18.4-38 rears on it.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 29, 2008

I can get into 5500lb class if I remove all weights and fenders. I did that last weekend and did real well. I got 4th out of 11 tractors. Plus I like the way the fast hitch pulls. I never spin out and the tires I have on there don't loosen up the dirt to pile it up in front of the sled. I do have a wide front end on it so that would weigh more than the narrow. I can't use 18.4 38 unless I want to pull in the open classes which I don't. I have 15.5's on it now. But the pull we have here locally won't allow me to use the TA in the stock class. Otherwise I would do alot better. Do you think I could shave 500lbs by losing the wide front?

D Slater · Sep 29, 2008

Yes even though the rear end housing is narrower on a H or 300 size than the bigger tractors, the notch in axle housing for clamps is a greater distance from bolt up point on rear end housing than M size. Only problem is the square tube that axle housing clamp bolts pass through at front won't fit in notch on axle housing of H size if tube is from most M or SM. On some tubes that take the 7/8 clamp bolts and are more rounded and common on 400 and up tractors, the more rounded side will usualy fit in H size notch.

CNKS · Sep 29, 2008

The U-shaped drawbar, not the swinging part, will fit the C through at least the 560.

Pete76NY · Sep 29, 2008

Got about #300 of my Super C when I got the whole shebangle off (pump and rocker arms too) which let us into the #3000 nad #3500 class, and still didn't pull well until it got up around #4500, so it's all back on and we start pullin' at #4000. As a rule it'll beat straight H's all day provided they don't have that ultra low 1st gear that some had. Of course I am talking only division I here.

BOBM25 · Sep 30, 2008

Our local club won't let you pull with a fast hitch unless the cylinder is unhooked and the hitch is locked in position. If the right a**hole is running the scales he won't let you pull off of the fast hitch 2 pt drawbar.

charles todd · Sep 30, 2008

Mark from WI, why do they ban the use of the TA? It was factory equiped and no different from other 2 speed transmissions, except that it can be shifted on the FLY!

Anonymous-0 · Sep 30, 2008

I am not for sure but I got a sneeky suspicion that it is because the people that have the sled, scales and rules all drive John Deere!

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