The three-point hitch is made up of several components working together.

A draft control mechanism is often present in modern three-point hitch systems.

The equipment attached to the three-point hitch is usually completely supported by the tractor.

It is connected to the tractor with a draw-bar, or a three-point hitch.

A three-point hitch is standard at the rear of the machine and on option on front.

Backhoes attach to a three-point hitch on farm or industrial tractors.

Equipment attached to the three-point hitch can be raised or lowered hydraulically with a control lever.

Others, mounted on a tractor's three-point hitch, connect to the rear power takeoff shaft.

Securing implements onto the three-point hitch of a tractor is an example of application.

There are two types of attachment for a rotary mower, either using the three-point hitch or via a draw bar.

The three-point hitch revolutionized farm tractors and their implements.

In modern practice they are almost always tractor-mounted implements, drawn after the tractor, either trailed or mounted on the three-point hitch.

In 1978 Massey Ferguson was the first to introduce an electronic control system for the three-point hitch on a tractor.

The three-point hitch soon became the favorite hitch attachment system among farmers in North America and around the world.

Fitted with a linkage (three-point hitch) for use in agriculture with mounted implements like plows.

The height of the cut on models attached on the three-point hitch is adjusted using the hitch control lever.

Subsoilers can be up to 15' wide, some models are towed behind tractors while others are mounted to the three-point hitch.

Another way to attach an implement is via a quick hitch, which is attached to the three-point hitch.

Like the larger agricultural tractors, a CUT will have an adjustable, hydraulically controlled three-point hitch.

In Ireland, businessman Harry Ferguson had designed a tractor incorporating a hydraulic three-point hitch.

The primary benefit of the three-point hitch system is to transfer the weight and stress of an implement to the rear wheels of a tractor.

Equipped with the three-point hitch, the postwar Ford 8N became the top-selling individual tractor of all time in North America.

In the 1960s, tractor and implement manufacturers eventually agreed on the three-point hitch as the one standard system to hitch implements to tractors.

Row crop cultivators are usually raised and lowered by a three-point hitch and the depth is controlled by gauge wheels.

June 29 - Ford 9N tractor with Ferguson hydraulic three-point hitch first demonstrated at Dearborn, Michigan.