Bulletin No.
297
Document Type
Bulletin
Department
Agricultural Engineering Department
Description
This bulletin has been written to supply the information so frequently requested on how to build a simple hitch to pull two or three implements with a tractor or big team. Many farmers have asked this station for such information because they realize that efficient use of power demands that a full load be pulled at all times. The conclusion, drawn from contact with farmers who have inquired about hitches, is that the hitch most in demand in South Dakota is a simple one-one built to pull a specified combination of widths of two drills, field cultivators, or disks, or three such implements, rather than a universal type-that is, a heavy draw bar mounted on wheels and de-signed to pull combinations of two or three implements of any width. With this idea in mind the objective of the work on implement hitches is to develop a simple and inexpensive hitch which will pull combinations of two and three of the same kind of implements satisfactorily. This study also includes a study of woods and design of single trees and eveners for big team hitches.
Keywords
tractor hitches, field machinery hitches, field implement hitches
Pages
55
Publication Date
12-1935
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota Experiment Station, South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts
Recommended Citation
Wiant, D.E. and Minium, L.W., "Hitches for Field Machinery: Simple Hitches to Pull Two or Three Implements in the Field" (1935). Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011). 297.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins/297
