Handy Devices

Skid Steer Hitch

Dan Miller
By  Dan Miller , Progressive Farmer Senior Editor
Skid Steer Hitch (Illustration by Ray E. Watkins Jr.)

Randy Tanking, Wetmore, Kansas, took a discarded hitch from his pickup truck and built a frame to move trailers around his farmyard with a skid steer loader. All the steel for bracing and other parts came from his scrap piles. He says it took about four hours to build.

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