swinging draft arms

[jay-eye-see]

I recently hung a 2 btm eagle hitch plow on my recently acquired 211b , my question involves the swinging draft arms. All our other Case tractors are rigid and I have never used the non swinging type. I understand the 200 series came both ways. They have a brace to sort of lock them so they can be rigid, these are shown in pic but not hooked up. do i need to use these braces?, i notice Fords have the braces also.If not for this application, what are the braces used for (and why did Case not make them come off easier?, these unbolt) Thanks for any thoughts on this set up. I cant wait to plow this fall with this thing

 

[Old Rusty]

If you set the leed corectly on the plow you will not need to have the dreft arms locked in any position. If a plow is set corect it can be lpulled with a chain.

 

[Anonymous-0]

That is a 3-point plow. That means that the plow has to be stationary at those 3 points to work correctly. To keep the plow stationary at the ends of the lift arms means you will need those stationary bars (braces) in place to make it plow right. You can pull a plow with a chain but it might do a lot of rolling around in the process.

 

[Roger300(Md)]

No you shouldn't use the stabilizer bars when plowing, the hitch is designed to swing around rocks and such to keep from breaking the hitch or the plow. That was one disadvantage of the eagle hitch, so Case designed their plow to pivot on the hitch to help reduce that problem. Things like bush hogging, mowing, bale spears and other 3 point work works better if it doesn't swing. Also a swinging draw bar should be used when discing, harrowing etc. it forces the empliment to pull on the side of the tractor you want to turn to in loose plowed ground. Take care, Roger

 

[Anonymous-0]

Stabilize the arms with a chain to the Axle ,, its an elementary Must ,, those arms pictured there could cause the plow to become Your BACK SCRATCHER if You Pull up and Turn out of the furrow quikly with aid of turning Brakes ,, Guess How I know that!

 

[Nikolas Britton]

I think your suppose to have chains on the outside of the arms, with a tensioner to remove the slack.

 

[steveormary]

I believe the plow is correctly hitched to the tractor. You dont use the stabilizers when plowing. The plow needs some flexibility.

Be careful and have fun.
steveormary

 

[JICase]

STOP!!!
Your going to bend or break your lift linkages without those side braces!
I'm betting you had eagle hitch arms as original equipment, not the swivel balls. Somebody replaced them at a later date.
If you look at the top of your lift linkages near the screw crank, the single pin allows movement forward and back for raising and lowering, not side to side. Without the second pin or joint in there which is turned 45 degrees from the first, you will bend your lift linkage at the threads and won't be able to adjust the length anymore. Worse yet you may snap one off and have to weld it back together in the middle of the threaded section.
The original eagle hitch lift arms were of a non-sway design and so another pin to allow side to side movement on the top of the lift linkage was not needed.
The side to side movement was built into the eagle hitch implements instead.
If you want to keep the longer 3 point arms with the swivel balls, then you should get the original lift linkages to go with it to make it work right. Not sure but I think the main lift arms under the seat were of a different length also if you want to get real accurate about it.

 

[Roger300(Md)]

Wait, look closely at the pictures of the lift arms, they do have the swivel points at the end and are designed to swivel. The part#G16749 and G16754 and were optional for these tractors, also the 300 round nose. They were available then and later as replacements, but Case pushed their new style three point eagle hitches. Also that really isn't an eagle hitch plow, the eagle hitch plows didn't have a hole on the plow drawbar to use the spring clip. but rather a forged stop or arch you put a pin through to prevent the hitch from becoming off the end because of the design of the eagle hitch. Take care, Roger

 

[jay-eye-see]

thanks for the responses