Stupid question: Hitches, why some The are many different?

[JimmyJam 516]

I am a Newbie: There are so many different hitches: Slot, Sleave, Brinly.

How does a newbie identify ??? ...and what they are used for???

Pics Guys/Girls!!! Thanks!

[CasualObserver 3,406]

Really there are only two styles of rear hitches. Slot and Sleeve.

 

What people call  the Sleeve hitch, Brinly hitch and the Wheel Horse Clevis hitch are all the same thing.

This is a slot hitch.

 

This is a Wheel horse clevis hitch.


And just for arguments sake... this is a vertical shaft tractor's Brinly style sleeve hitch. (not very common.)


Slot hitch implements have a tab which slides into the slot of the hitch and is pinned in.

Sleeve hitch implements have a C shaped clevis jaw that wraps around the hitch and are pinned through the sleeve of the hitch (tube you see on the hitch)

Here is an example of the slot to sleeve hitch adapter (Brinly part HH-180) which converted your slot hitch to accept a sleeve hitch implement. This is a factory Brinly part that was available for Wheel Horse and Jacobsen tractors (Jacobsen also used a slot hitch)

 

 

and here shown with an implement hooked up. The sway plate in the picture is out of normal position, because you don't use it with a plow. (and in relation to the Wheel Horse application, this hitch adapter is upside down, the flat side should be up with bracing on the bottom)

 

Here is another example attached correctly to a drag.

Look through the implement gallery and you will see plenty of examples of the two styles.

Edited October 15, 2019 by CasualObserver
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[JimmyJam 516]

CasualObserver: Thanks for your pics and info! Going to help out alot.