Usually there is a mirror fitted to the back window of the tractor to allow you to see the pick up hitch when coupling a trailer , surprised the 7530 doesn’t have one

Always used a hook and ring, strongest system and quickest, I'm from uk.

looks like that hitch should be mounted on top of the old hitch instead of under?

I've used these fast hitches for years. The more you use them, the more money you save.

yeah the baler might weigh 12 ton but most of the weight is on the tandem axles there probably only a few ton on the draw bar

I have a neighbor who has a similar hitch for chopper wagons. They work slick just have to be careful they don't roll!

I remember 4 months of pain while healing from harvest season. Yanking tounges around to line up with hitches. Yes you can extend the tongue sometimes 18 inches but there is always an alignment of an inch sideways. Moving the front wheels with 9 thousand pounds of weight on them was an issue. 2 years of using this system resulted in no painful injuries to my shoulders. I used the safety pin while on public highways or roadways. Not so much field to yard travel. The kind of pin with the wrap around capture clip works real well. I put the supplied pin with separate spring clip on the planter box rack as a spare.

Hello, just stumbled across your video, love the 7530. all the “quick hitch” or hook hitch’s in Ireland/UK are only rated for 3 ton to remove liability from the manufacturers. They can hold probably over 20ton. Been pulling a 14 ton excavator plus buckets on a low loader with them for years as have many others. Still holding strong.

Hi Wes. Why does the hook on the tractor mount on the underside of the draw bar? It looks like there are two lugs to create a channel to sit on top of the draw bar and prevent a lateral/twisting motion. Perhaps they are for some other reason

Reminds me of the never ending "who has the biggest pecker" contest between each and every nation/country/city/whatever else. This hitch isn't better nor worse. It is excellent for what it is made for. Quick hooking and unhooking of those types or hitches. Each hitch has it's application, doesn't mean europe is better nor that america is.

Those hitches are fantastic. Been using them for years. Definitely a good idea to use the safety pin out on the road.

I used the agri speed hich for years and we always bolted it directly to the drawbar we didn't use that little adapter but each to there own don't make me any difference how you do it

Wes, the 3 point linkage was designed by an irish man we just though we would make it better with the pickup hitch, it's handy. :)

hook is better of the two , but thats just me , depends on whats best for what your doing

i dont know about john deer but on our massey 390 and 4355 we have a mirror on the back window,and when you open the window the mirror goes with it ,and you can see the hitch in the mirror.

Good day This one is alot of heavier, yrs. ago they had snapper. Did that not work? Thanks

What would you think of, instead of the cable release, a small hydraulic cylinder to operate to lock/release arm? Just plug into an SCV.

Hi. Here in Norway we use the so called UK hitch, and i will say that when you have used it some times, it dont take that long to connect a trailer, not any longer than the time you used on the US hitch. And i think the UK hitch is safer to use, because on the locking of the trailer hitch. But the US hitch looks very Nice. We can’t all like the same things😎

what about installing like a backup camera, like my friend did with his. He had problems seeing it clearly like you were/are and decided to put a backup camera and it has helped ALOT for him

I hope they have plenty of stock, that hitch is awesome! I wouldnt be surprised if they get some real pressure on sales for it.

There's usually a mirror on they mudguards of tractors in Ireland so you can always see the hook and with your fast hitch you have a lot of work to do if you need to use the 3 pt hitch you have to unbolt the drawbar which takes a lot of time. With the eu hitch the drawbar is out of the way and the minute u take off a trailer you don't have to modify it to use the 3pt hitch. I will admit that hitch is slightly faster that the EU hitch but it wouldn't suit the trailers that are used in Ireland

The only problem I see is no brakes on the wagon it can easily roll away if your not paying attention

I was going to ask how your fast-couple hitch fairs on a trailer with 15 tons on the drawbar but I realized it ain't gonna work for that application.

Also it’s a lot of extra work putting on and taking off the quick hitch off the drawbar of the tractor when you need an implement for the link arms etc

I have wanted those hitches for years.

It almost looks like that piece on the tractor should be on top of the tow bar ?

What if you were on a slight angle to the hitch say a 30 deg or less will it still hitch up

how will that work on soft ground with 5 ton load, also that longggg as draw bar wont go around our roads

In fairness both systems work well but the only disadvantage to the us style is that there cannot be any tounge weight which would render it useless to us over the pond

That would work good for our hay wagon but that’s about it...

How do you put on the pro shaft with that thing In the way

What about on a single axel implement or with out a tractor with a hydraulic tongue?

We moved from Friesland (NL) to the UK and our Ford 3000 had a hitch mounted above the axle, as was common in The Netherlands at the time. We were told it was illegal in the UK and so switched to an under axle one off a 5000. I am much more familiar with the pick up hitch type as used in the UK. It should be noted that European farmers are far more likely to used trailers that have front axles that steer, while UK farmers tend to use trailers that are carried on the hitch. This hitch demonstrated is great and easily visible, but way too far back for the types of trailer used where plenty of weight rests on the axle. for 4wheel trailers like shown here, it will be fine. Technically you still have to get off the tractor to hook up your lights and air brakes/ hydraulic lines, but yeah sure hitches up quick. No use on heavy trailers in my view.

Just require everyone to install the safety pin before going on the road. 2 minutes job of putting in the pin could save you a bunch of money later if something was to happen.

Olf do you want to sell the cat 4 hammer strap off the 8530? I'm looking for one.

OK then what if the trailer has a rigid draw bar and the trailer is under weight what dose it do then just bend the alignment system can't see it working then

Every tool has its application, personally I can’t see that hitch system working in the uk. 90% of all modern equipment in the uk uses the pick up hitch with the hook not the drawbar and there is no pin to line up. That hitch you’ve got there wouldn’t work when you’ve got a full 16t trailer with most of the weight on the tong, yes if it had a dolly you’d be fine, but you loose all the traction on the back tires then. And once you’ve used the uk style for a few months you can judge where the pick up needs to be. Personally I don’t have the push out option and I find it fine. No maybe not as quick but safer because you have to lift the arms to the very top before the trailer can be disconnected. There are horses for courses and I don’t doubt that your hitch is much better for you. But it doesn’t work for everyone and there no way that you can say every uk and Irish operates is wrong for not saying your way is better, just like we can’t say ours is better

You are spoiling your dad, good job on that 👍👍👍👍

Works fast! great for pulling in the field. are there any rules about trailer brakes for going down the road? P.S nobody in mainland europe is using the uk hitch we use ringfeders.

Do the have a limit if you have hilly ground or are they heavy duty enough to handle that?

Wes, I'm not wanting to cause an argument because the fact is that we use different methods in different countries and that isn't likely to change. I'd just like to make a couple of points. Firstly, speed comes with practice, so the series of movements that you say took a minute to lower the hook, with practice can be done in a matter of seconds. The same goes with judging when the hook is in the ring. It's just a case of knowing your machine and practicing. Secondly, your concerns about strength are unfounded. I know from experience that one of those 7530 pick up hitches will manage a fully loaded trailer topping 36 tons, which according to my maths is about 81000 U.S. pounds. (That's at the top speed of 56kph on a none too smooth surface) Finally, the reason we like the pick up hitch (and its variants), apart from being quick, is it's safer. There's no need for someone to come between a tractor and unsecured trailer to drop a pin in and risk getting crushed. Also, because the hitch lifts the front end of the trailer, some of the weight is transferred onto the back end of the tractor. This not only increases traction, it allows for safer braking. I'm not trying to teach you to suck eggs, you know your business and it's up to you what you do with it. But please don't knock the systems we use in the UK, they're safe, proven and reliable. Cheers

1: spec a mirror on the rear window, you can see the hitch perfectly 2: how do you use a pto machine with that quick hitch 3: it wont work with a fixed drawbar full off grain as it wont lift it up Uropean is better you just need a mirror and a good opperator aswell a a ball hitch not a hook

In the uk we also run big balers and the drawbar hitch copes well with them, most of the weight of the krone is in the axles and only a small amount will be on the drawbar.

Can enibody explain what is bushhold when harvesting? I'm not from in USA or UK.

We Have Hitch Cameras on all of our Tractors.

They will still argue with you smh

Love speed hitches! Guys around my area use them on their silage boxes (those that still pull their boxes behind the chopper.) I worked for a guy that had them. Yes they are a time saver!

What happens if you want to use the 3 point linkage? Doesn't the hitch get in the way of the hitched implement?

Well even in Germany we have a completely different technic, wich works beautiful, i've never seen such a Hook (UK) before, and i was wondered about the American technic, i like this idea

Using the European/UK telescopic hitch is a skill, once you master it it’s easily as quick as the ‘agri speed hitch’ and what you do is extend the hitch out with the hook and lean out slightly and you can easily see the hook, practice makes perfect, also having the drawbar extended with the agri hitch, means it would be more likely to lift the tractor in the air with a heavy load, I really don’t like having the cord dangling around when all it has to do is catch a link arm and there goes your load down then hill 😂

what if you have a fixed trailer (non articulated) so the draw bar doesn't float?

how much down force weight can those speed hitches take because alot of uk farmers dont use four wheel trailors now

Yeah 50K with a 22ton redrock see how it holds 😂

We don't use either of those hitches. AND WE'RE KEEPING IT THAT WAY!😐😅 I'm so sorry that I got myself into this discussion

what stops that bouncing out when your going down the road at full tilt . surely that will fall off

I have used them before they are awesome for chopping. I do know some people who have welded pipes for extensions on tractor mounted part of it to make it easier to hook up. It’s especially nice with the extension on a hitch mounted on the pull type chopper

Seems so strange that there are no brakes or lights to hook op

Your lack of air tool oil is disturbing lol!

What width are those super singles on trailer?

I put a mirror fitted to a suction cup on my back window, l can hook up to a trailer in seconds, still got to get out to couple up lines though .

You go down the road and pull that cord by accident, look out !

I guess the European design is suited to a more skilled driver...

How would that Bergman speed hitch work on the likes of a baler? Would the long bar on the trailer side not interfere with a P.T.O. shaft?

What about feeding the cable through a small tube or pipe up to the cab? Something like some soft copper pipe just keep the bends slight.

It’s European bro

Do you not have brakes and lights on your trailers?

So what about hooking two wagons together? You gotta rig all wagons with that type of hitch as well?

I by the way would like to see you reverse part that trailer around here we don’t have the room for trailer like that we have bigger one all wheels on the rear and solid draw bars to reverse around tight corners lol

Your wagon gona come off wen you hit a bump in the road i bet you.cant wait for the vid on that lol,and look all that bale twine out in the rain lol

The Euro comments are why we left, no other way to get to the moon or invent computers or the lightbulb, or the telephone,..... . I'm kidding!!!!

Bloody ripper mate!! Thanks for making this video. It’s one of the biggest things that pisses me off every day is hitching things up. I’m buying some for sure

First problem is because of deer my hook hitch on the fendt 724 is visible without much leaning and this uk hitch sticks out

Glad you called it united Kingdom and not Europe 😂 I would have Unsubscribed otherwise lol.... I'm British not European..... Great vid mate

Once you get used to the pick up hitch we have in Europe it is pretty fast to hook up to a trailer

what happens when the bailer is backed up to a wall in a barn... it just smashes into the wall when it drifts back a couple feet when you back into it to hook it up? lol

for in field use its a great system on the road the trailer will want to push you on the corners due to the extra leverage at the hitch point

i would say its to do with using heavier trailers for smaller/lighter tractors for small areas and using the weight transfer from the trailer to help the tractor get traction - so it is close coupled so that the weight is as close to the rear axle as possible

Why would you buy a tractor in the uk? How would you ship it?

That hitch sticks out a long way from the rear of the tractor, it'd interfere with the implements that we use on the 3pt linkage.

do you have an exterior hith control

Amazing! Never seen those before. how does they work of road? like for instans on a twisting and bumpy forrest road?

Nice setup. Would have loved that on the farm.

How many ft pounds is that air hammer.450?

I have been out of farming for a number of years (UK) but back in the 1990s we used pick up hooks for the heavy work (we had trailers up to 13 tons). Sure the hook was out of view from the cab but there were guides on either side to align the hook which allowed you to back up into the trailer eye in a second. The 3 point lifted the hook up & the latch locked the hook up so that the hitch could never detatch by accident. We also used this type of pick up hook on the back of a trailed forage harvester which you backed up to pick up an empty trailer so a single working tractor could work a field, dropping full trailers & picking up empties as you want & the filled trailers were hauled back to the clamp (pit) for dump & return. It was very efficient & fast. When I moved to Canada in 2000 I did some work with tractors here again & I found the tractor hitches here a complete bunch of pants....

the hook is stander and at lest with ours hitch in the UK it does not move the trailer back when hooking up and the bar on your hitch is in the way of the pto shaft

what tractors can this hatch be put on like JCB fastrac,international956xl, johndeere7930, or MF 130.

Wes, this is one of your best videos in a long time. I didn't skip any of it! Your Dad will most assuredly love the ease of that hitch!

Is it a bad thing that I drive are tractor (ford 8n) to the gas station every day

The hook hitch used in the UK and Ireland surely stems from convenience; a lot of implements are mounted on the 3 point linkage over here as opposed to predominantly being trailed in the US due to size and hp restraints. The hook hitch prevents the need to disconnect the drawbar from the tractor every time you want to mount an implement on the 3 point linkage.

The way you use the hook best is keep it lifted up and pushed out and only drop in when your in line a few inches away from it

Wes figure out how to weld a short spike on the shoe of the trailer to keep it from sliding. Just a thought.

What about grain trailers with out a turn table

What happens if some mud flies up and hits the rope and unhitches it?

How the little pipe lift off 40 tons of sillage on semi trailer???

What about when you go to use a linkage implement you will need to take the whole drawbar off because the drawbar would stick out to far

Can you install a back up camera to a tractor?

Yes it's faster but I don't think that it will be easy to unlock that speed hitch if it's pulling a loaded European style silage wagon but for your hay wagons the Agri speed hitch is what you need!

That is freaking cool does anyone know if they sell this in australia? Would like to see if it could be adapted to work for a truck and chipper similar to a ringfeder but using the pinnil hook.

Does your JD have the telescopic hitch? (Goes in and out via a spool valve) I'm sure I saw the switch on/off valve when you opened your window to show us you couldn't see it

The baler is designed to have weight on axle hitch is just to tow along ,, not a bad idea of a hitch but needs took off when using arms or PTO , if u get used to the UK /euro you don't need to look at hook ,also in UK our load length is restricted so with this your loosing a foot of length on trailer and leaving more awkward to bring a trailer into fields with longer drawbar as UK roads can and alot would be very narrow