3pt adapter

be careful not to have the sway chains to tight or yuo will bend the arms in with a heavey load , i had mine adjusted to take all the sway out with a scraper. hooked to it that would be with the arms about straight out when scraper is down ,              then hooked to another piece of equipment were the arms had to go all the way down and the sway chains were to short and pulled both arms in right were the chains mount  .     that top picture that brian has there looks like that would work the best were it holds to set width and pivots in two places to go longer and shorter for travell up and down on the arms 

Gary I'm not looking to spend that much on a hitch or front-end. Cheaper to buy a whole tractor and then sell off what I don't want lol.

don't know if you can use this idea but,'Troy' here had a loader/no PS so I built a snap-coupler 'carry-all' for it to replace the loader as I move 'skids of stuff'. works great. I welded a 2" receiver onto the carry all. I simple put in a sleeve with ball to move trailers,a balless one to use as a drawbar.
maybe it's an option ??
Jay

Somewhat of an aside point that may not be immediately relevant to the OP's interest, it may be a historical tidbit worth knowing:

These 'adapters' were manufactured under some 'legally challenged' circumstances.

Realize that Harry Ferguson had a substantial honeycomb of patents for his invention of the 3-point hitch. During the timeframe that he was in business partnership with Henry Ford, the patents Harry held, were well protected by Ford's legal army.

Once that partnership fell apart, it left Harry's patents in a position of weakness, and also left Henry in somewhat of a pickle...

Henry was, by virtue of their partnership, the largest manufacturer of the 3 point hitch, and practically his entire implement offering relied on the design. While he didn't 'own' the patent, his partnership granted him de-facto 'liscence' to manufacture them, and there was a pretty massive legal question as to wether Henry owed Harry 'royalties' for continuing to produce the 3-point.

Well, at the same time, there were gobs and gobs of other marques that used some 'other' design of lifting attachment, and the design and operation of those lifting attachments in many cases, had been legally attacked by Henry and Harry for violations of patent.

It was not unusual for someone to think up every and any idea they could, wether practical, feasible, viable, or not, and file a patent FOR it... with NO intention of ever actually 'doing' it... specifically so that anything a competetor DID, would be at risk of legal action for patent infringement.

Well, when Harry and Henry had their falling out, the 3-point hitch patent enforcement became 'weak'... but still, no tractor manfacturer would offer THEIR tractor with a 3-point hitch... it was too 'risky'.

But making an adapter managed to either 'skirt' the original patent just enough to get by, or would constitute a low enough value so that the manufacturer wouldn't be making enough profit for it to be worthy of attack by the patent-holder's legal-beagles.

Plus... Henry and Harry's legal-beagles were kinda busy fighting amongst themselves.

Now, prior to the falling-out, Henry and Harry had a certain vested interest in the presence of 3-point implement manufacturers... because those implements made THEIR TRACTORS more desireable... and as implement manufacturers, Henry and Harry knew that if other tractors had 3-point hitches, that they could sell more of their OWN implements...

And they would certainly be interested in doing so, but not at the expense of lost business on their own part of the tractor pie. From that perspective, it meant that what they BOTH had to do (before AND after) was to allow just enough license of others to make their stuff desireable, but not allow others to use something that was quite-as-good as a proper 3-point.

So it's an interesting paradox, that was ultimately smashed by fate.

The end lesson, though... is that amidst all the good things they did, there were aspects of HOW they did things, that while legally right, and ethically exempt, were moreally less than pure.

The adapter was something that got through the grey area... not just for AC lovers, but every other outfit, both major, minor, and farm-made.