This is one of those ideas that was a life changer for me and it is so simple I can't believe I never thought of it. I wish my dad were alive to see it, he would feel the same way.

My most popular video of all time is the one where I'm trying to hook up a three point tiller. I was on a tractor I'd never operated and after getting one side attached I struggled mightily to get the other side on. I had to get on and off the tractor several times, trying to back it up so the pins would align. I think a lot of people who are new to tractors enjoyed seeing a guy who has been around tractors all his life struggle to get this done. Maybe they had felt they were doing something wrong when they were trying to do the same thing and it didn't go well.

One day I got a comment from a viewer who told me the process would be a lot easier with a pry bar. He explained that growing up on a farm, his family kept a big long bar around, and when they hooked up a three point implement, they used it, and it made the process a lot easier.

I thought about this for a while, and vowed to try it. I wondered, if it were so easy, why didn't my dad know about it growing up, and why, in 25 years in the business, I had never seen anyone do it that way. I figured that you'd have to be young and have a really strong back to make it work.

Jump forward to a few weeks ago when we started the series about rotary cutters, finish mowers and flail mowers where we'd be testing all of them side-by-side in the field. I knew I'd be switching implements often, with a tractor I wasn't use to and thought it would be a good time to try it out.

I loaded our old family pry bar, an old wagon axle, in the truck and headed to the video shoot. I was floored when I tried to move the first cutter...IT WAS EASY!!! It really didn't take much of a pry bar to move the machine and I was totally shocked.

Maybe everyone but me always knew the mechanical advantage of a lever could move a farm implement, but I sure didn't. So, after a lifetime of trying to move the tractor to get the implement lined up and attached, I've been converted to moving the implement. Well, actually, I was for a while. In the next video we'll look at the advantages of a quick hitch.

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