Hanging System Makes Implement Hook-Up Easier

Hanging System Makes Implement Hook-Up Easier TRACTORS Miscellaneous 32-3-10 When you're working alone, hooking up 3-pt. hitch implements to a tractor can sometimes be "like wrestling alligators". Sherwood Botsford of Warburg, Alberta knew there had to be a quicker, easier way. "Usually, you wish you had at least three arms, and even then, you might not quite have the tractor positioned in the right spot," he explains. "Hooking stuff up can be time consuming, especially when you might only need a certain implement for 20 minutes before you want to change to something else." Botsford found that, by putting posts in the ground, nailing a 2 by 4 across the top, and hanging the implement a couple of inches off the ground with ropes, hooking up and unhooking goes a lot quicker. For example, he has a post hole digger that's normally quite awkward because of the need to get the top link arm into position. "I think it took me two hours and a half dozen scraped knuckles the first time," he says. "I probably used words inappropriate to a family publication, too." Botsford also made a hanging hookup system for his Deere cultivator. The next easy hook-up station he plans to build is one for his disc mower. By placing four posts in the ground and hanging the mower with hooks at four points, Botsford is confident he'll simplify the hook-up process. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Sherwood Botsford, Sherwood's Forests Tree Farm, R.R.1, Site 2, P.O. Box 5, Warburg, Alberta, Canada T0C 2T0 (ph 780 848-2548; sherwoods.forests@gmail.com; www. sherwoods-forests.com).

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