Hold on to your seat. This is going to be exciting! A whole video devoted to things you don't know about the draw bar. Actually there's a little tip here that might save your shins, but you'll need to watch the video to see what that is.

The draw bar, (or "drawbar", I'm not sure which one is right) if you've not been around tractors, is that thick piece of steel in the back of the tractor with a hole in it. There are basically two ways to attach an implement to the back of the tractor…three point hitch, which is designed for attachments that can be lifted up, like plows and discs. And pull-type, which have a tongue that attaches with a hitch pin to the hole in the draw bar. Most of the time these implements have wheels on the back of them, so part of their weight is on the wheels and the other part on the draw bar of the tractor. You use a jack, attached to the implement, to lift them up to hitch to the draw bar, then lower them down once it's attached.

The problem for a lot of people is that the draw bar may never get used because many of the implements for smaller compact tractors mount by way of the three point. So, you have this big piece of steel sticking out all the time for you to ram into your legs.

I don't want to give away the video, but there's a way to slide the draw bar out of the way and still keep it attached to the tractor and that's the main subject here. There's also a really important measurement to be aware of when attaching pull-type PTO-powered implements and I discuss that in the video as well.

ONE THING I DON'T MENTION THAT'S IMPORTANT and I'm planning a video about this soon, if you want to drag a heavy weight with your tractor, the draw bar is where you want to attach it. If you attach anything higher up on the tractor and try to pull it, the torque of the wheels spinning could turn the tractor over backwards on top of you. That was a pretty common occurrence on the early tractors with no front end loaders, and a lot less apt to happen on a modern tractor, but it's still possible depending on where the load is attached on the tractor. So, where that draw bar is mounted is the place to attach heavy loads.

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