3 Point Stabilizer Bar

21hunter

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Anyone have any experience with a 3 point stabilizer bar? I'm setting up a rear boom flail mower on my 175 and would like to get some of the swing out of the 3 point while using it. Do they work good? Any drawbacks?
Thanks
 
I use stabilizers on all my tractors. I hate those check chains that let whatever you hook up to flop all over the place. The only thing I can see you would use them for is plowing.
 
Our New Holland 6640 came with stabilizer like these, you can pin them out so the lift arms are of the way. Once you have the implement hooked up you can put whatever you have hooked up directly behind you, or you can off set it like if you are mowing close to fence posts you can keep the tractor farther away from the fence posts.
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Hi, if your 175 is on the largest diameter tyres you may have drop brackets fitted at the lower link pivot points. This lowers the centre line of the pivot pins. In doing this it may put them out of line with the holes in the stabilizer brackets under the fender mounting. Stabilizer bars are either adjustable or fixed. Two bars are the ideal set-up but they must NEVER be adjusted so that the linkage is tight. Check the centre-line alignment. If they are all on one line...great. If not the 3-point will tighten and loosen as it rises and falls.
DavidP, South Wales
 
Thanks for all the responses. I am running 16.9 x 28 tires. I was planning on making some short drop brackets for the outside fender mount holes on the axle and making some fixed stabilizer bars for the boom mower setup. I'll need to have some slop in them so the lift won't bind as it travels through it's arc? However if I make them to not bind from the bottom to the top travel won't that mean that there will be more slop and less control? How do you guys run them? Do you adjust them for a certain height or range of travel or are they set up that the 3 point will travel through it's entire range?
Dave

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Mine (above) has same size tires. The stab bar pivot point is in same plane as the lift arm and swings in same radius as long as you use those drop mounts.
 
(quoted from post at 11:59:03 03/04/18) Thanks for all the responses. I am running 16.9 x 28 tires. I was planning on making some short drop brackets for the outside fender mount holes on the axle and making some fixed stabilizer bars for the boom mower setup. I'll need to have some slop in them so the lift won't bind as it travels through it's arc? However if I make them to not bind from the bottom to the top travel won't that mean that there will be more slop and less control? How do you guys run them? Do you adjust them for a certain height or range of travel or are they set up that the 3 point will travel through it's entire range?
Dave

Stabilizer bars have nothing to do with height. Using stabilizer bars, your lift arms should still be able to run through the whole up and down range.

It's a good idea to use one regular flat bar and one adjustable bar. This makes it easier to hook up implements. Hook up the solid bar first then adjust the adjustable one where you need to get it on the implement pin. The raise your implement off the ground and use the adjustable one to get your implement on center with your tractor.

Of if you don't mind the little extra expense you can just buy two adjustable ones.
 

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