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Read articles →A dealership intro to the PATS Easy Change quick hitch mounted on a Yanmar YT235. The presenter explains why he prefers this low-profile design over traditional quick hitches, walks through the adapter washers that replace a compliance kit, demonstrates the locking mechanism, and mentions the roughly $200 price. Covers category sizing options briefly. Most useful for shoppers weighing PATS against conventional quick hitches rather than anyone researching the YT235 itself.
Tractor Ben appears to be a dealership channel that recently became a Yanmar dealer, so expect a sales-oriented perspective.
You back the tractor up, raise under the implement, and it locks your pin in automatically. Then you close the lock so it cannot come undone.
He dislikes the big metal arm structure on traditional quick hitches that gets in the way when hooking up the PTO to drive implements.
No. It uses washer-like pieces that go on the pin instead of buying bushings and a compliance kit to make implements quick attach compatible.
The presenter says it is around two hundred dollars.
