pfrederi 18,640 #1 Posted June 18, 2014 Spent a good part of yesterday cutting a slot hitch off an 857 transmission. (This is after a month or so of soaking with PB Blaster/Kroil, followed by using an air chisel and drilling and a Oxyacetylene torch) Even after cutting it off I had to use a 20 ton press to push the remaining shaft parts out of the hitch. The I had to cut through the transmission case and hitch pin to separate the tranny...This sucker was stuck!!! Any way I have a couple of slot hitches( never found a use for them)...What implements used them??? Clevis hitch I understand for mold board plows but slots??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 37,196 #2 Posted June 18, 2014 I've got one seized up just like that. Drilled through too, and still won't budge. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CasualObserver 3,411 #3 Posted June 18, 2014 Wheel Horse implements specifically for the slot hitch? Anything that needed to be able to lift out of the ground. Disc, Plow, self-powered tiller, Cultivator. The slot hitch is the one that came standard on the tractor. The regular trailer hitch was an add on, and designed to be installed with the slot hitch. Wheel Horse and Jacobsen used slot hitches before they switched over to the more common universal clevis (or sleeve) hitch that everyone else was already using. Manufacturers like Brinly used to make implements with both styles of hitch, but later changed to just making one and offering a slot hitch adapter for the machines that needed it.. I have and have used my slot hitch plow and slot hitch cultivator on several occasions. Would like to find a disc, but that one keeps eluding me. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pfrederi 18,640 #4 Posted June 18, 2014 Jason Thank you very interesting info especially about trailer hitch being the "later add on" 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tankman 3,523 #5 Posted June 28, 2014 Used the slot hitch lots years ago. Bent steel flatbar and drilled a hole in it for the pin holding the "Z" section flat bar. Plowed and worked the soil using parts of farm implements; i.e.: a plow with coulter wheel from a set. didn't need the whole gang. Welded my offset ("Z") section piece to the plow, slipped it into the slot, pinned the "new" implement. Went to work. Forty years ago, if I remember, 8 hp Techy or B&S. I saw in the forum, forget who posted it, an adaptor, slot to clevis adaptor. Good luck and have fun. We know how these Horses love to work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
