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Tractor hitch

  • 04-06-2013 9:47pm
    #1
    benjamin999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭


    Would a crank shaft be strong enough for a tractor hitch? Where the hitch is pivoted! Sorry dont know the right name for the bar! Or would it have to be a special made bar dats hardened? Im not sure weither the hitch is dromone or not! Is the anyway of identifing weither it is or not? Thats de bar thats in it already! Seems to have gud bit of work done!

    Cheers


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  • #2
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,919 ✭✭✭Odelay


    benjamin999 wrote: »
    Would a crank shaft be strong enough for a tractor hitch? Where the hitch is pivoted! Sorry dont know the right name for the bar! Or would it have to be a special made bar dats hardened? Im not sure weither the hitch is dromone or not! Is the anyway of identifing weither it is or not? Thats de bar thats in it already! Seems to have gud bit of work done!

    Cheers

    Nope, you should not mount a hitch on the PTO, just don't do it.
    Have a look elsewhere on the tractor, make, model and year of machine should help you get more answers here.


  • #3
    Odelay
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    Just looking again, what the heck is that machine??? Have you taken the hub off? I'm very confused:confused:


  • #4
    tf19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭tf19


    I lika pick up hitch


  • #5
    Casinoking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Casinoking


    Looks more like a half shaft than a crank shaft. What's holding it in at the other end, or should I even ask?! Not an ideal job, you'd wonder what happened the original one.


  • #6
    Casinoking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Casinoking


    Odelay wrote: »
    Just looking again, what the heck is that machine??? Have you taken the hub off? I'm very confused:confused:

    Looks like what the the pick-up hitch is hanging from under the tractor to me


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  • #7
    benjamin999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭benjamin999


    To be honest i dont no what happened the origional bar! I bought the tractor 4 months ago and it been buggin me since! The tractors a landini 8550!! I take it the bar wouldnt be strong enough? Because i dont want to be goin down the town and it breaking 😕 that bar was in it when i bought it!


  • #8
    iverjohnston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭iverjohnston


    benjamin999 wrote: »
    Would a crank shaft be strong enough for a tractor hitch? Where the hitch is pivoted! Sorry dont know the right name for the bar! Or would it have to be a special made bar dats hardened? Im not sure weither the hitch is dromone or not! Is the anyway of identifing weither it is or not? Thats de bar thats in it already! Seems to have gud bit of work done!

    Hi, I presume you mean a "half shaft" as a pivot pin. Should be fine, if its the right size in diameter. They are tempered steel and not brittle.


  • #9
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Figerty


    iverjohnston wrote: »
    benjamin999 wrote: »
    Would a crank shaft be strong enough for a tractor hitch? Where the hitch is pivoted! Sorry dont know the right name for the bar! Or would it have to be a special made bar dats hardened? Im not sure weither the hitch is dromone or not! Is the anyway of identifing weither it is or not? Thats de bar thats in it already! Seems to have gud bit of work done!

    Hi, I presume you mean a "half shaft" as a pivot pin. Should be fine, if its the right size in diameter. They are tempered steel and not brittle.

    I agree. That bars is probably a much higher grade steel than the original. Those drive shafts have hardened ends for the splines and toughened in the middle for torque effects.

    If it is a neat fit, then it probably better than the original. If it's a loose fit then it's not a good idea as it wear the body its held in.


  • #10
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    You have to turn the photo 90deg clockwise to see it right.
    I would think too, that you are ok with it. These shatfs are case hardened and tough internally so less likely to snap all of a sudden.
    The only down side is you wont see any wear on the harder surface of the shaft but it might be failing internally in the softer part through fatique. But that could take years and years to happen.


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