Forged Eye Bolts

Navajo350

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So I finally located forged eye bolts in town at a
local hardware store. The bad thing is they say
"China" on them. I love the food, but is this "brand"
of bolts strong enough to attach to a tractor (the
hole I am told are 5/8"?), put a clevis through, and
chain it down to a trailer for a long haul?

(I was going to attach these eye bolts one on each
side of the frame up front on an unstyled JD A. I
don't want to put just the clevis through the hole,
because I would think that could
destroy/elongate/damage the frame holes. Then I
was going to do the same in the back with the
drawbar: attach an eye bolt through the drawbar,
use 2 clevis's through the eye bolt for each side in
the back, and a chain through the clevis)
 
Have you ever thought about using D rings. They make them in differant sizes by what weight that you will be hauling. You can get ones that weld to trailer or the ones that bolt to trailer.
 
NAPA and Tractor supply list them and you would have to deside which size you want. Do you have a trailer sales and service they may have them.I am looking at a set of D rings that drop in stake pockets of traler and they are rated at 11,500 lbs. each and run between $25.00 and $30.00.
 
This is what I'am looking at.
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You love the food huh? On a recent trip to a Chinese restaurant with my wife, we asked the manager if the food he was serving was typical Chinese fare. In a heavy Chinese accent, he said " Oh no, no! This a fake Chinese food. Chinese people eat rice."
 
Eye bolts are not very strong pulled sideways. They are primarily designed to be pulled on endwise. The flange works like a lever to pry them when pulled sideways. The cultivator bracket for the front on a deere makes a good hooking point, and is solid. You can put whatever size hole in it you want. Works much better than hooking to the frame behind the wheels. If it has the cast frame it can break the frame if you pull down to hard then hit a good bump. The pressed steel frame I just hook under the frame with the hook and pull forward and down. Haven't bent a frame yet. I load about 2dozen tractors for the Mackinaw bridge crossing each year and haul all over the US.
 
Thanks, for the help. I am probably Just going to throw a chain around the pedestal with a towel or something and a couple of chains around the hitch brace in the back.

Here's an off topic question...

What happen to all the normal 5 gallon gas cans?? Is there a new government law about ventilation of gas cans or are they trying to reinvent the child proof pill bottle? I mean, it seems it would take 5x as long to pour gas out the "half spout" compared to an old school spout, plus you have to push on the spout to make the gas flow. That would be a good workout throwing 5 gallons of gas above your shoulder for 10 minutes when filling up the tractor. I can see it now..."old farmer farmed for 90 years and never had any shoulder issues until the invention of that new ventilated spout. Are they all like this now?
 
These will do what you want. I have them on a couple of 4000 pound molds that I lift over the top of the machines to drop them between the tie bars to set them in place.
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I use a clevis on each side. I took a grade 8 bolt, drilled a hole in it, and tighten the nut with all you got. Then put a cotter pin or hair pin in the hole. By tightening the nut it squeezes the clevis tight to the frame and prevents the holes from getting egg shaped. Works great and is cheaper than buying eye bolts, which to my knowledge are not DOT approved tie down devices. Just my two cents on the matter.
 

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