Posted by Destroked 450 on July 30, 2019 at 08:57:35 from (66.38.93.182):
In Reply to: Safe enough ?? posted by wolfman on July 29, 2019 at 19:11:08:
A old rubber mud flap clamped to the drawbar with some angle iron is best.
Used to bale a neighbors hay, some of the fields were rough with hills and drainages, heading down one of the steeper hills one day I heard a odd noise and looked back to see the baler up against the tractor with the tongue burying itself into the ground.
The clip had broke allowing the pin to drop out, luckily I shut the pto off before it snapped the pto shaft off the tractor.
Had it came loose going up that hill the baler probably would have ended up upside down in a gully about 200 ft down the hill.
I'll never install a hitch pin upside down again and expect a clip to hold it up.
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