Making my own bucket hitch

Moving trailers around the yard with a long pickup truck is very difficult. It would be much simpler with the tractor. Sure, there's a hitch on the drawbar, but I don't want to remove the backhoe every time I move a trailer. Besides, it's much simpler to look forwards than to look over your shoulder, so I made a hitch that quickly attaches to the bucket with two clevis pins:




Approaching the target:

Moving the Kubota trailer:

Moving the cargo trailer:
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