WD45 3 point hitch conversion diagram?

[PassMeTheHammer]

Does anyone have a detailed diagram for a 3 point hitch conversion they've made for a WD45? Or the ACS011?
I need to get one custom made....the kit (ACS011) is hard to find/get in Canada.

Thanks.

 

[funky_g00]

Her you go. Steiner shows it still available. I guess this site won't let the link go thru but do a google search for acs011 and steiner parts should pop up. If nothing else you have the picture. https://www.external_link/ACS011-3-Point-Hitch-Conversion-Kit?srsltid=AfmBOooz3d_m7zF973EgodydgZAhCJWla9fmbStxwy-iWBloWIuqrCRy.

 

[Jim.ME]

Steiner is a competitor in the parts business, links to their site have been blocked for years.

This site sells that hitch. Many other places sell it as well.

 

[504]

Class 2 draw bar welded across the factory draw bar. Then arms and and something to go between the arms and tha AC lift arms. Take the snap couplers off and hang them in the barn. You might want them someday. What ever arms you can find on a salvage tractor.

 

[DrAllis]

I've always used the snap-coupler latches on the lift arms when building a 3-pt hitch. It increases the height of the hitch when done right. Whatever you do, the lifting links to the draft arms have got to be pretty much straight up and down when the hitch is fully raised.

 

[PassMeTheHammer]

Thanks for the replies, taking notes.

I can find the kit for sale in US but they don't ship to Canada, so would have to use a broker (which all give estimates around $600 to ship)....the only website that ships to Canada is selling the kit for $2,500!
I don't have the money for that. (new farmers trying to get going)

So I was hoping someone had a detailed diagram with measurements to get one made.

 

[DrAllis]

What are your intended uses for this hitch?? Category #1 size ?? Are you going to pull a mounted 3-bottom plow with it?? or much lighter work? I don't know what your fabrication skills are, but a fairly simple hitch can be created without many dimensions needed. I could probably go up to the farm and get some numbers if this hitch doesn't need to be built for plowing.

 

[Jim.ME]

PartsASAP, parent company of Yesterday's Tractor, has at least a couple places in Canada. Have you checked with them to see what they can do?

 

[PassMeTheHammer]

DrAllis.....I've got no fabrication skills (don't even have a welder). I will hire someone to make it, so I'm trying to get a detailed diagram to put out there to get a bite.
It will be for cat 1.
There is an old 501 Ford sickle mower on this property when I bought it. I would like to use it with the tractor to make hay.


Jim, I'll give them a call.

 

[PassMeTheHammer]

PartsASAP, parent company of Yesterday's Tractor, has at least a couple places in Canada. Have you checked with them to see what they can do?

I checked with them, they don't have the kits in-stock and don't seem to be willing to bring one in.
I was on their website that had the kits in Canadian prices...but when I went to checkout it said this item doesn't ship to Canada.
Seems the only way I can get a kit is to use a LTL broker....at which point the shipping will be more than the kit.....

I gotta get one made.

 

[PassMeTheHammer]

Class 2 draw bar welded across the factory draw bar. Then arms and and something to go between the arms and tha AC lift arms. Take the snap couplers off and hang them in the barn. You might want them someday. What ever arms you can find on a salvage tractor.

I plan on using cat 1 implements. Would the pins on a cat 1 draw bar be strong enough? Or would cat 2 with bushings be better?

 

[DrAllis]

Cat #1 pins are no stronger with bushings. That Ford mower wouldn't be as bad as a plow. Whenever I've built a 3-point for a snap-coupler tractor, I leave the OEM drawbar and bail on the tractor and build around it. In your case, you could take two long (3 to 4 feet) 3" x 3" x 3/8" thick angle irons and attach them to the mower making them an attachment to the mower pull pins and shaped like an "A" frame, aiming them at the snap coupler bell and connect them to the snap-coupler like AC intended. This means drop off the drawbar and bail and connect the mower. Fabricate an adjustable top link to the rock shaft on the tractor to make it "3-points" of connection. Build a couple of lifting links to the lift arm latches. Make an "X" brace to go between them like an AC rear blade was and you are in business. The hitch remains with the mower would be my design intent. I'm an old AC guy and have seen lots of different implements made to fit AC equipment. If I had the steel already on hand, probably 4 to 6 hrs of fabbing/welding and I'd be done.