IH 460 Fast Hitch

[AdamOH]

I have a 59 Farmall 460, I have a question about the fast hitch. Can it be locked into one position so it cannot raise and lower. When running the haybine and I raise the cylinder to make a turn and set it back down the fast hitch sometimes will drop on its own and if I'm not watching will plow the hitch into the ground. On the teleadepth lever it looks like it has a locking pin, but seams to be froze up. Would this set the fast hitch height. Any help would be great.

 

[DeltaRed]

Yes.Remove the lift links from the rockshaft. 'Reattach' them to the 'bosses' the back of the deck.

 

[AdamOH]

Thank you, Could you please go into a little further detail on how to readjust the hitch. The bosses, I'm not sure about.

 

[Brendon-KS]

If your 460 is like my 350 on either side of the tractor near the rockshaft you'll find two lugs with ~1" diameter holes. The links that raise the hitch can be disconnected from the rockshaft and installed in these lugs to hold it at a fixed height. The link on the left has a clevis that fits over the lug and is held by a clevis pin while the link on the right has a pin that goes through the lug and is secured with a hair pin (again assuming our tractors are similar in this area which I believe they are).

 

[DeltaRed]

Brandon is correct.No 'adjusting' is needed.Just hook it up and bale hay.Works just like the old hoop drawbar.

 

[wolfman]

Delta Red and Brandon are right. It only takes about a minute - detach (one at a time) the lift arms at the top by removing the large hair pin and swing the lift arm over to the frame eyelet; Insert and replace hairpin. You always want to attach the lift arms to the tractor's frame for PTO work. My 460 spent about 362 days a year with lift arms attached to frame for 32 years.

 

[wolfman]

Make that Brendon.

 

[Brendon-KS]

People have been calling be Brandon my whole life so don't worry about that!

I thought it was funny when my now wife and I were dating. The manager of the local coop had the name of BrAndon and for quite a while her father had a hard time getting my name right since he was so used to the other pronunciation. I knew that he had accepted me when he started calling both of us BrEndon.