Anyone ever ran tractor attachments off the back of your pickup? Scraper or pto stuff?

 

Pto stuff would get alil involved and interesting but where theres a will theres a way... I sure a 3pt system could be made with some fabbing

 

dad kept gettin the old 8n stuck tryin to disc one time so i hooked to him with my truck n dragged him around, thats about it haha

 

I always had plans of fabbing up a 3 point but I've never gotten around to doin it yet. A set of custom receiver hitches coming off each frame rail and then the top link coming out of the center hitch. Then just fab up the inserts that would slide in and out of the receivers and accept the pins.

The bigger trick was trying to figure out how to use snow plow hydraulics to make them moveable.

 

Could be a lot of money in this if somebody got figured out.

 

R&D Costs are high. It could be done.
You might have to cut the bed to keep it close to the differential.
If the truck is long you might have some flex issues.
Traction would be the other thing to look at. There is a reason those tractors have huge wheel on the back. Hydraulics! Are you going to use them? You might want to consider it.
You might have to go from the front of the diff and use gears to send a shaft to the back, then have some way of engaging and disengaging it. It would have to be real strong!

 

Anything's possible, could be cool, but at a certain point it becomes more cost effective to buy a small tractor. Before that point you could run a hydraulic pump off the accessory belt to run a scraper or hydraulic motor for the pto and lift cylinders for the three point hitch. 'Course if your transmission already has a provision for a pto it might be more efficient to use that to drive a hydraulic pump

 

Well at least there is somewhat of plan that's been used before for this idea. The early jeeps and land rovers iirc could be equipped with pro out the rear and I believe they had some type of lift system also


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Unimog's as well

 

Some of the semi trucks I work on have pto setups to run pumps on the trailers. Some have a shaft running up to the transmission, but some have a hydraulic motor mounted on the rear crossmember, that seems easier to adapt. Get a hydraulic pump and some way to mount it, the hydraulic lines should be easier to route than a pto shaft. Or find a Land Rover or Unimog in the junk yard.