Howdy, I was looking for help with a draw installation, so I did a search on Google and found results from a number of different sources, a lot on this forum. I am glad I did. I didn't know that the lift arms would just pick up, by hand, I thought when they were down they stayed down. Now I know that making something to keep the bar from spinning, you know the part with the hitch ball, is not enough. Man, you could end up with a trailer tongue in your back. Thanks for all the info. Off to the drawing board. I am SO glad I researched this. Whew.
 
Mike, drawbar stays like the ones shown in this photo (Thanks, John - UK) are available at farm supply stores, such as TSC, Orschelns, Farm/Fleet, etc., a lot easier than making your own. (Koch Manufacturing makes drawbars, stablizer bars, toplinks, pins, etc.)

I have an old, original Ford/Ferguson set for my TO-20, along with stabilizer bars.

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Tom, does your stays still have the chain attached that you are supposed to wrap around the control lever?
 
No, Jason and Del, mine aren"t quite that original! (No chains, and no tags.)

My drawbar stays are red, and came from my Grandfather"s stuff. He had Ford 8N/9N tractors, not Fergusons, but they look identical to the ones in John"s photo I posted above.
 
Yes, that is what I'm talking about. That's very rare for that chain to still be attached after all these years.
 
I don"t think those stays are meant to hold the drawbar DOWN. They buckle quite easily, as I have found.
 
You wouldn't be from Darlington, SC would you? M.T.?

I have an old Ferguson 35 and use a 3ph reese reciever type hitch (15 yrs). If you lock your trailer hitch on the ball in rare instances it might raise the 3ph up but with the ball locked it stays hooked and under control, out of your back. I wouldn't want to lose the automatic lifting power by going to a drawbar not on my 3ph. After you get the hitch, then you can make all kinds of tools to use in it also.

I built my first reciever hitch before I ever saw one anywhere. Thought it up myself. Next thing I knew was they were being made commercially and on the market.
 
Another option is the old ferguson horseshoe style swinging drawbar. I have one it would probably sell. My email is open if interested.

Kirk
 
Humph. The stay bars the guys are showing you will prevent the bar you are using now from raising un-intentionally... which is needed when pulling a trailer for sure. But I believe you are using a like? - 2 inch ball? This still isn't safe when the ball to curl under that perforated bar. You will still have a trailer tongue in you back. It doesn't do the ball hitch any good either.
The bar you are using is for adjusting the position of - trail-ing implements, most were horse drawn or other company's early trailing stuff. With a yoke and pin hitch, not a ball.
The set that Dan posted is what you need- for safety and stability- like you must have found out what a monster backing up your trailer is with the bar you are using now?
This kit, whether from this site, or a TSC near you, might be the only reasonably priced options near you? will lock straight when you need it to, or if you are in the woods or rough ground, you can let it 'swing', where it gets its name.
Years ago when I was doing what you are now, with a 9n and a bar like yours, my father made sure the safety chains on the trailer tongue were wrapped and secured around the bar.... that's the least you should do till you buy a 'swinging drawbar set'. Be careful.
 

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