fore cart with 3 point hitch implements

[longshot38]

would this be a viable idea? if you had a fore cart of some sort and had some sort of 3 point hitch set up could you do some, not to heavy, farm work and work in the garden?

im thinking of a plow, harro, rake, or mower(ground driven).

so would this be doable or would it be just too difficult.

thanks
dean

[Donn Hewes]

Hitch carts they are called, and they are available. Most don’t include the PTO in the same cart but I am sure that can and has been done as well. Some were in the archives is a nice picture of one that was demo’ed at NEAPFD about 3 years ago. If my memory serves me, it was a four wheeled cart with battery power for the lift. Others use a hydraulic accumulator to power the lift. hydraulic accumulators take power from the wheels and store it as hydraulic pressure until you need it.

[dominiquer60]

A gentleman at the market used to use horses for his market garden. He had a hitch cart with hydraulic 3pt and brake with a battery. It worked nice for various cultivators, harrows and such, but to plow it is best to have a nice plow as well. The double tree and yoke were extra wide to accommodate a 6 foot center to center bed size, he also used a jockey stick to keep his mares spread apart. They are out there, but this guy had his custom built by a neighbor.

Erika

[Livewater Farm]

I have a ground drive forecart with a 3pt hitch I replaced the batteries for the hitch with a manual hydrolic pump works great and does not run out of power unless I fade the cart was made in the lATE 80 EARLY 90 BY TEAMSTER 2000 GOOD HEAVEY CART FOR MODERN 3PT EQUIPMENT i RUN A ROTARY RAKE + KUHN 16 FT TEDDER WITH IT WITH 2 HORSES IT WILL ACCOMMADATE MULTIPLE HITCHES AND A COMFORTABLE CART TO RIDE HOURS AT A TIME IF i CAN GET A TRAILER i WILL BRING IT ALONG TO THE NEAPFD CART IS NOT MADE ANY MORE THE MAIN PTO ELEMENT IS A FORD FIESTA REAR END TURNED UPSIDE DOWN TO SPIN PTO RIGHT DIRECTION PUTS OUT 540 RPM AT 3MPH WITH 3HORSES THEY RUN 7FT HAYBINES CORN PICKERS AND BRUSH HOGS OFF THIS MACHINE
BILL

[Carl Russell]

This is called the Yard hitch. It is designed to perform heavy 3pt tasks. Four wheeled, articulated, battery powered hydraulics. This is not a small garden tool, more appropriate for using horses to employ existing tractor equipment.

The cart in the front is an I&J PTO cart, and the one behind is a White Horse Machine 3pth cart designed for lighter items like cultivators etc.

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I don’t have any picture of 3pth carts with accumulators, but they are usually tag-along implements to give extra stability to accommodate more weight associate with greater lifting capacity.

Carl

[Scott G]

Has anybody seen/heard of putting a Farmi 3-point, PTO skidding winch on the back of a 4-wheeled, powered, PTO hitch cart? I know some folks have put a winch on their skidding arch. Not contemplating it for myself, just an idea that came to mind…

[Carl Russell]

Livewater Farm;20622 wrote:

I have a ground drive forecart with a 3pt hitch I replaced the batteries for the hitch with a manual hydrolic pump works great and does not run out of power unless I fade the cart was made in the lATE 80 EARLY 90 BY TEAMSTER 2000 GOOD HEAVEY CART FOR MODERN 3PT EQUIPMENT i RUN A ROTARY RAKE + KUHN 16 FT TEDDER WITH IT WITH 2 HORSES IT WILL ACCOMMADATE MULTIPLE HITCHES AND A COMFORTABLE CART TO RIDE HOURS AT A TIME IF i CAN GET A TRAILER i WILL BRING IT ALONG TO THE NEAPFD CART IS NOT MADE ANY MORE THE MAIN PTO ELEMENT IS A FORD FIESTA REAR END TURNED UPSIDE DOWN TO SPIN PTO RIGHT DIRECTION PUTS OUT 540 RPM AT 3MPH WITH 3HORSES THEY RUN 7FT HAYBINES CORN PICKERS AND BRUSH HOGS OFF THIS MACHINE
BILL

We would love to have you bring that this year Bill. Let me know if it will work out, Carl

[Donn Hewes]

I have all ways liked the teamster 2000 and would love to see one. Donn

[longshot38]

thanks for the quick replies folks, what brought this to mind was a couple of years ago i had my son at the local fair/fun-day where a man had his Newfoundland Pony hitched to a self made cart ( looks like a Barden cart but i didn’t know it at the time) and i thought it would be a good rig and if you needed to haul any gear, etc you could put a ball hitch like on an auto to use a utility trailer while you rode up on the cart. then i wondered about using farm implements after seeing smaller implements made for atv’s.

thanks
dean

[Livewater Farm]

Iam looking around for a trailer that it would fit on or someone from southern vermont or mass. with one who is going up and has room my drawback is I only have SMALL FORD PICKUP SOLD MY LARGER TRUCK AND TRAILER ACOUPLE OF YEARS AGO GETTING READY FOR POST OIL ON THE DAIRY AND BOUGHT MORE HORSE EQUIPMENT
Bill

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