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WARNING!!! Dangerous 3 point hitch sway bar mounting !!!

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mike1972chev

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This happened while mowing with my Bushhog behind my Super M.A small sapling "flinged" the front lynch pin out of the right side stabilizer bar and sent the front of the bar under the mower,me being unaware until it was too late!I was mowing the property line next to my neibor's house.It could have been disasterous !

I bet a lot of "veterans" out there probably knew better than to run a lynch pin in the front,but I NOW have a hardened bolt with a locknut in the fronts of the stabilizers on both sides now! There is no reason to really have the fronts removable anyway to hook up implements anyhow.

The fronts of the bars "flipping " under the mower deck is DEFINITELY a dangerous situation !!!!
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I've been using locking lynch pins on the front of sway bars for about 25 years for that very reason.

Dean
 

I've got chains with turnbuckles instead of rigid stabilisors..... They hook to the lift arms and not implement pins so no fumbling and can lengthen/shorten with a quick spin of the turnbuckle....
 
(quoted from post at 11:26:32 08/28/11) Dave, could you post a photo of your chain and turnbuckle setup?
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I'll have to take some but it's real simple. If you google "3pt hitch stabilisor chains" you'll find plenty. These hook on just like the bar shown, but instead of the one end being at the implement pins, it is permanently fastened at the pen where the link from lower and upper lift arm is connecting rod.. You can get expensive custom ones or reasonable universal ones.

They show up a lot on ebay.

Dave
 
Mine are on a Speedco # point set up on My Farmall Super M and dont hook on the implement pins,they go back to the lift arm a few inches BEFORE the implement pins.On A Ford,like my 600,I know they go back to the pins.
 
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