Receiver, draw bar, Brinly hitch

[snoel]

My 782 came to me with the rear lift, but no draw bar or Brinly hitch. The PO had used it for a tiller, with an added gasoline motor and big battery mounted on the tiller. It had wallowed out the threads in the aluminum rear mount bolt holes. I bought the receiver hitch, off eBay. I drilled out the bolt holes and tapped the threads to 7/16, and installed it back with 7 new grade 8 bolts. I then shortened a draw bar, that I had laying around, drilled new cross pin holes, to get the hitch closer. Still needed a Brinly hitch. I found an old bracket for a farm wagon bolster, laying in the mud around an old farm shed. I cut it off a couple inches, drilled some new holes for mounting and lift chains. I bought some 5/8 steel bushings at Lowes, and welded them in, with another cross piece of steel, for added strength, and now I have a hitch and Brinly that works together with out having to remove one to use the other. Strong, and I like the way it looks.
It's in prototype, usable mode for now. A bit more work, to be done to it. But, it will pull a plow! And, that was the goal.

[Terry C]

That's cool. Great work looks factory

[Sam Mac]

Looks like a nice setup. You may want to add a couple ears to it to bolt to the axle tubes like Xtreme offers for the hitches they make like the one in this pic. I'd hate to see you pull the threads out of the alum housing.

[snoel]

Sam,

I will eventually add some extra "strength" some where. But, for now, I'm not likely going to pull it very hard, with no weights, no fluid in the tires, and turf tires. Also my only plowing is is a garden with lots of organic material already plowed under.

[bocephus1991]

That looks good! If it were mine, yeah I'd try to beef up the mounting some. Nice work though!