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Is this an eagle hitch???

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Dalton S.

01-12-2008 20:23:45

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Here is a couple pics of the hitch that is on the back of my recent 1951 Case DC purchase. The hitch has some type of three point or eagle hitch on it. One side has a leveling screw or something like that and the other can move freely up and down about six inches. The lever to move it up and down is in the same place as a eagle hitch, but I am pretty sure it isnt an eagle hitch. The PTO has to be engaged for it to work also. It has the bar just above the PTO for the top link on an implement. What in the heck is this thing? What sort of implements could I attach to it? I ordered a manual for it off of this website and it doesnt look anything like the eagle hich in the manual. I am only 15 yrs old so I really dont know much about these hitches. I can post more pics if needed. Please help. Thanks

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Joe (Wa)

01-13-2008 16:17:53

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Dalton S., 01-12-2008 20:23:45

Yeah Dalton, Glenn is right on the money as usual.

If you don't already have a parts manual, go to the link. When the page loads click on "SEARCH for PARTS right here", type DC in the model search and find your tractor and expand the "figure listing".

Joe

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J.C.H.

01-13-2008 08:35:23

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Dalton S., 01-12-2008 20:23:45

Glenn F. has the answer to your question.

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J.C.H.

01-13-2008 08:35:12

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Dalton S., 01-12-2008 20:23:45

Glenn F. has the answer to your question.

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super99

01-13-2008 02:05:28

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Dalton S., 01-12-2008 20:23:45

Now that's a Rube Goldberg original if there ever was one. If there was some duct tape on it, looks like something Red Green would come up with. Hard to tell, maybe you back up to the implement and take the arms off and hook onto implement and then reattach to tractor? If you want to use the hitch, measure the distance between the arms to see if it is cat 1 or 2, and then try to find an aftermarket quick hitch to attach permanantly to lift arms. Then you could just back up to implement and raise and go. Good luck, Chris

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Dalton S.

01-13-2008 04:33:35

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to super99, 01-13-2008 02:05:28

How wide would the arms be apart for the cat 1 and for the cat 2? Thanks

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old

01-12-2008 20:50:02

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Dalton S., 01-12-2008 20:23:45

Nope not an eagle hitch. Looks like a framerized hitch of some sort to make a eagle hitch more like a 3 point.

Hobby farm

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RobMD

01-12-2008 20:38:45

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Dalton S., 01-12-2008 20:23:45

That's no eagle hitch, in actuality, that is a three point hitch conversion.

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RobMD

01-12-2008 20:40:49

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to RobMD, 01-12-2008 20:38:45

I'm talking about the arms, not the orange things they're attached to. My grandfather knows what those orange arms are

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Joe (Wa)

01-12-2008 23:11:13

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to RobMD, 01-12-2008 20:40:49

1st pix is Case SC eagle hitch draft arms parts view. 2nd pix is Case 311B with eagle hitch, draft arms are very similar to SC. 3rd pix is Case VAC with eagle hitch. 4th pix is VAC draft arm claw.

All eagle hitch draft arms have a similar "claw" w/latch & lock to capture the implement pin. As you back up, the implement pin catches and pushes the latch open, then you raise the draft arms enough to bottom the pin in the claw, pull tractor forward slightly, latch drops and pin is captured in the claw.

Your draft arms are swinging 3. type. You indicate that they slide apart so would have to capture the implement pins by sliding the arm ends together over the pins and have a means of locking them. Looks homemade to me.

Joe

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Power Lift

01-12-2008 20:36:48

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Dalton S., 01-12-2008 20:23:45

Not real sure, but I think you have what they call a power lift. Case came out with them back in the 30s on the RC and CC tractors. It's a mechanical lift, no hydraulics. Hydraulics weren't popular until the 1940s.
It was not intended to be a 3 point arrangement as we know it today, but simply a means of raising implements up and down such as the front mount cultivators that were so popular for these tractors. Most I've seen have a pedal you step on with the heel of your boot.

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Dalton S.

01-12-2008 20:50:11

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Power Lift, 01-12-2008 20:36:48

It's hydraulic. It has a cylinder on the left side under the axle that will push out to raise it, and then it will come back in when it is lowered. It has two way hydraulics. If it were a power lift, why does it have the arms on it that can attach to something. Those arms can also slide on and off very easily too I guess. They also dont really swing either. How would you connect an implement to it? The ends dont open up or anything. Thanks

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KEH

01-13-2008 05:47:48

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to Dalton S., 01-12-2008 20:50:11

That particular tractor never had an Eagle hitch. Those arms on the bottom were to raise and lower cultivators. Older models had, I think, a mechanical lift, but as you say, that one is hydraulic. Don't know dates for Eagle hitch on a DC.

KEH

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Glenn FitzGerald

01-13-2008 06:27:28

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Re: Is this an eagle hitch??? in reply to KEH, 01-13-2008 05:47:48

We have a '51 dad bought new. It has the hydraulic lift with the cylinder on the left side, as does yours.

Your tractor does not have an eagle hitch.

The DC powerlift was replaced by the hydraulic lift the year hydraulics came out...1949. Eagle hitch came out in 1952. I understand the late '51 castings were designed for the eagle hitch rock shaft, but just had plugs in the holes.

I have heard of people converting those hydraulic lifts to a 3 point. Yours is just that.

Glenn F.

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