Drew Ellis from Sunsouth explains which hitches fit utility, compact utility, and subcompact tractors, and what implements work with each. If you're buying a John Deere tractor, this breaks down what you can actually attach to it.
Good day, guys. Drew Ellis here with Sunsouth in Tuscaloosa. We're here to discuss some confusing differences between our utility tractors, our compact utility tractors and our subcompact tractors. Some of those confusions lie within the category of hitch and implements that you can use. So we're going to discuss the categories of hitch that you got on each particular tractor.
On all of your tractors, you have a different style of hitch. Your most common style of hitch is going to be the category one, but you do have on our subcompacts what they call a limited Category one. And the difference between the category one and the limited category one is going to be the distance between your top link pin and your three point hitch pin. It's going to be shorter. And the reason for that is on these shorter tractors, they're a little bit lower to the ground. And what happens is if you put a standard category one hitch on this limited Category one hitch, it's not going to lift high enough to do any loading or unloading when going on and off the trailer. So you're going to drag and scrape and bust your trailer up. So when you're buying tractors, you need to consider what style of implement you're going with. It needs to be the style that matches the tractor and onto the four series year, which is our compacts. It's going to be a standard category one hitch. And what that means is again, the distance between this center pin and this center pin is going to be higher than the limited category ones. It's going to lift a little bit higher because the ground clearance from the center of the tire is much higher than the compact tractors over here on my left. All right, so they offer a super, super handy, cool tool called an Imatch quick hitch. Okay. This makes loading and unloading implements very, very easy. And it's becoming pretty standard across the board. And they offer one of these for the standard category one hitch, the category two, and then so on. We don't have any Category twos here because there's such high demand for them. Were sold out. So be sure that if you get your hands on one, go ahead and buy one when you can if you're interested in this kind of implement. Now, the Category two is going to be more of your larger implement. Diameter of your center link hole and pin is going to be much larger than what you see on the category ones. This is going to be more for your seven foot plus implements. Now, they do make seven foot implements in a standard category one where they're kind of a dual purpose but on from seven. Most of them are going to be seven foot, eight foot implements. The diameter of the pan is going to be bigger, the width in the Category two is going to be much wider and the distance between this center pan and this center pan is going to be much bigger. So that's going to shed some light on what you're going to buy and how you're going going to buy it. Because you don't want to buy a Category 1 implement for a Category 2 tractor. Now can it be done? Sure. And if you'll Visit us at SunSouth, we can show you how to do it. But it's more of a common practice to buy the right tool for the right job.
In conclusion to all of that, if you have any questions, please come visit us here at SunSouth and Tuscaloosa or any of your local SunSouth dealerships. We'll be happy to help you. As sales professionals and as customer service, we have it. We're the best under the sun.
