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Ford 3pt lift rotary mower. The A-frame lift has a chain on each side with a snap hook at the end. Where do I hook, for what purpose? What is the blue metal piece my brother is holding?
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The blue metal piece mounts to the rear axle on the tractor. The chains hook to the blue piece to keep the mower from swaying from one side to the other
 
Does the chains go to the back of the mower so it will lift when you raise the 3 pt? Can you show a picture of the rest of the mower too please?
 
I may be wrong but those chains were a device to limit or set how far down the cutter would go on old tractors where the lift drifted down. The top hole in the piece he has was placed on the pin at the tractor end of the upper link. Both sides of the cutter has the same set up you then lifted the cutter and let it down to where you wanted to cut. Raise it up a little and place the chain thru the other slotted hole and locked it in a link. Set both sides as close to the same as you could and go. When you let the cutter down it would stop where the chains held it. With that modern tractor you probably can do away with the things.
 
i agree with jm. i have the same brackets on my woods rm 600 mower. it does not have front gauge wheels and that sets the front height.
 
JM and others have it correct. Those chains are to limit how far down the mower goes. On a lot of older tractors the three point hitch will not repeat to the same place if you just depend on the quadrant stop. So you just let the mower down all the way and set the chains to the height you want the mower to be at in the front.
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We had a setup like that on our old Ford brush hog back in the 60's, used it to set the mowing height and it also helped stabilize side to side movement when the mower was down in the cutting position.
A old 3 point hitch hay rake we had also used that setup for the same reason.
 
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