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Andy: Personally, I'd strongly recommend keeping the Fast Hitch on the tractor. The conversion arms for adapting these to 3-point implememts are readily available (probably are a set for this tractor somewhere in your buddy's possession), and the Fast Hitch beats the heck out of a 3-point for ease of hitching. This is especially true if you're hooking up to something by yourself. To hook up to a 3-point implement with my 300U, I pull the Fast Hitch/3-point adapters off the tractor and hook them up to the implement. Then I use a 2x4 with a couple of notches in it and a rope sling to hold the adapters parallel to the ground. Go jump on the tractor, back into the adapters, hop off and hook up the top link, and I'm ready to go. Beats the heck out of all the manhandling associated with a standard 3-point system where you generally end up shoving on the rear tractor tires, the hitch, the implement, or shoving on two or more at the same time before you get things to line up. All this pushing and shoving also leaves you pretty vulnerable to injury from all the pinch-points in a three point system, straining your back, etc. I'm currently regrowing the thumbnail I lost hooking up my neighbor's Ford to a 3-point implement last summer. Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth. Probably by the time you bought something to replace the Fast Hitch, you'd have spent more than your buddy will want for it, so keeping it probably makes monetary sense as well. Good luck with your tractor.
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