Pick up Hitch visibility

[Moors Lad]

Just been looking at a potential purchase with a non-visible (and non-pushback!!) puh. Has anyone ever got a "stick-on" mirror to put on the opened cab rear window to allow a visual image of that elusive little hook??

 

[michael N123]

My valmets both have them on the window like this

when set right you’ll never see the need to spec a tractor with a push out hook

 

[Rooney]

I use a reversing camera on pto u guard with screen on cab pillar at right elbow, works well

 

[Lofty1984]

I use a reversing camera on pto u guard with screen on cab pillar at right elbow, works well

Cheap as chips now too and can always add more cameras to trailers etc

 

[glasshouse]

We managed fine in the 80,s without mirrors or push back hitches

 

[cousinjack]

We got a camera pointing at the hitch,, thrown in on the deal when we bought our last tractor

 

[Moors Lad]

We managed fine in the 80,s without mirrors or push back hitches

Tractors were different then, and so was my back!!!

 

[damo810]

Cheap as chips now too and can always add more cameras to trailers etc

Any recommendations on one? Could do with one here, no place to mount the mirror like on the valtra unless a used a suction cup.

 

[Bramble]

We managed fine in the 80,s without mirrors or push back hitches

Also managed without air con, front suspension, cab suspension, air seats, gps etc etc. I prefer the 2020’s

 

[Lofty1984]

Any recommendations on one? Could do with one here, no place to mount the mirror like on the valtra unless a used a suction cup.

Have you got a screen in the tractor ?

 

[Lowland1]

We managed fine in the 80,s without mirrors or push back hitches

If you had a Ford 7810 with the solid metal bar at the back you’d have wished for a mirror or a push out hitch.

 

[Andrew]

A couple here with mirrors for the PUH, easier to see than the push back ones as they never push back far enough .
However I do miss the push back, as you have to be straightish when hitching / unhitching otherwise the link arms foul the drawbar.

 

[glasshouse]

If you had a Ford 7810 with the solid metal bar at the back you’d have wished for a mirror or a push out hitch.

Yes, but you soon learned how to hitch up blind, then get out and check it was good before clicking it in. U had to get out anyway to plug hoses in

 

[CPF]

If you drive fastrac’s. you soon learn to now where the pick up hitch is. Before mirrors and camera being fitted .

 

[BRB John]

Also managed without air con, front suspension, cab suspension, air seats, gps etc etc. I prefer the 2020’s

Don't forget adblue
I'd prefer the 2000's....

 

[Lowland1]

Yes, but you soon learned how to hitch up blind, then get out and check it was good before clicking it in. U had to get out anyway to plug hoses in

Chain across the lift arms. Go find a few bricks hopefully enough to get the right height try not to knock the trailer off them get off put pin ( or bolt) in and screw up the hydraulic coupling. Happy days

 

[Pistonbroke]

I had lines marked in the trailer hitch so that when the window frame,pto guard and hitch line all lined up it was spot on

 

[Galcam]

Camera under PTO guard and all setup such that when u engage reverse the camera kicks in with the picture on one of the JD screens. Drop hitch and push out hook and U never look behind again! That’s how my JD’s are configured.

 

[wdah/him]

We managed fine in the 80,s without mirrors or push back hitches

Don't remember the 80s, but remember looking through the floor of the leyland to hook on trailers, still be happy enough to back to them days, simple times.

Valmet here has mirror and would prefer it over the push out on the case and swing back on the ts as both still involve hanging over the back of the seat.

 

[ford 7810]

Tractors were different then, and so was my back!!!

Tractors were BETTER then and so was my back. We have mirrors on two Valtras one with normal hitch one with push out hitch ,mirrors work very well . John Deere bloody awful every time you lift your arse off the seat to see the hitch the bloody thing disconnects drive .