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Ball Hitch On Wheels
"It's fun to look at retired machinery and find new life in it," says Glen Schweppe, who took parts off an old combine to make a 3-pt. dolly hitch so he could use his tractors to haul trailers around the farm.
The Syracuse, Neb., man didn't want to use trucks to pull large trailers in the field. He took the whe
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Ball Hitch On Wheels HITCHES Hitches 30-2-35 "It's fun to look at retired machinery and find new life in it," says Glen Schweppe, who took parts off an old combine to make a 3-pt. dolly hitch so he could use his tractors to haul trailers around the farm.
The Syracuse, Neb., man didn't want to use trucks to pull large trailers in the field. He took the wheels and axle from the back of a 750 Massey Harris combine and mounted them closer together. He made a drawbar hitch to pull it from scrap metal.
"It's very sturdy and better than using a 3-pt. ball hitch which puts a lot of weight on the tractor," he says.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Glen Schweppe, 1355 S 32nd Rd., Syracuse, Neb. 68446 (ph 402 269-2602; ds85827@ alltel.net).
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