[AT] Finally done

[Bruce Fallon]

I have 2 1953 CA's one wide front with a snap coupler and bell underneath 
and the other one a trike only has a straight drawbar coming from the 
traction booster pull point. They both had the same arms and hydraulics on 
the top side.


Bruce Fallon
Freeland WA. 98249
bfallon at whidbey.com
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I can't recall but I believe that the early CA's didn't
have snap couplers but set ups like a WD. This appears
to be what you have. I would have to have the serial
number to check it. If you wanted to you could add the
missing parts and convert it to snap coupler. Not too
hard to do that's for sure.
Rob

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Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:11 AM
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Re: snap coupler

I have an AC and it seems to be a bit different, or it might have been
modified before I got it.

The main pulling part is way under the tractor, and you have to back the
implament over it, being careful to be perfectly centered up.  Then you
need to get down there and lift the thing up and get it into the hole
and put a pin through to hold it.  The two bottom plow I have is quite
heavy and it takes two people and a big stick as a lever to push the
tongue up or if I am by myself I will use my hydraulic car jack to lift
it up. Then there are two arms on the top that go to the arms that come
off of the lift pistons.  Again, you need to futz with moving the arms
and the implament to get it all lined up and pinned.  I have never found
anything to effect the height of the implament except the main
lift/lower lever.

You can see pictures at http://badpoodle.org/tractors and you can get a
pretty good look at the main part of the hitch in this picture:

http://badpoodle.org/tractors/big/DSCN3631.JPG

Am I missing pieces or was the hitch way different between the CA and
the WD?

--Matthew

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