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24 Ft Bridge Hitch
"There wasn't anything on the market that would do the job," says Michigan farmer Eugene Allen, of Rives Junction, who came up with his own 24-ft. long "bridge hitch" a year ago that reaches back over his chisel plow to pull a trailing culti-mulcher.
"It really works good. One trip over the field and I'm ready to plant," says Allen. "I needed a bridge hitch that would clear my chisel plow and be strong enough to pull the culti-mulcher but I couldn't find an implement dealer who had what I wanted. I tried hooking the culti-mulcher directly to the chisel plow. It worked good until a bolt sheared on the chisel plow lift system.
"I used 6 by 3-in., 1/4-in. wall rectangular steel tubing to build the frame. I used part of an old wagon running gear to make the back part of the hitch. I fitted it with dual wheels because single wheels tracked right in the furrows left by the chisel plow. One problem I had initially is that the bridge hitch tended to slide sideways when I turned at the end of the field. To solve the problem, I added a bracket on back that lets me add about 600 lbs. of tractor weights. The bridge hitch hooks onto a flat drawbar on the tractor's 3-pt. hitch. Hydraulic hoses extend back to the culti-mulcher."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Eugene Allen, 8305 Rives Jct. Road, Rives Jct., Mich. 49277 (ph 517 569-3264).


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1993 - Volume #17, Issue #3