Engcon is switching to its safe, proprietary quick hitch, and will no longer manufacture the conventional S-type quick hitches in the sizes S45-S80. According to the company, the company’s modern ...

Additional smart features are now on the company’s tiltrotators' quick hitch. The quick hitch had previously been adapted for installation of the detachable GRD grab cassette and SWD rotating sweeper.

Skanska UK has announced plans to ban all semi-automatic and automatic quick hitches from its UK sites by 1 November. Semi-automatic quick hitches have been linked to several fatal accidents in the UK ...

The UK's Strategic Forum for Construction has produced a Best Practice Guide covering the safe use of quick hitches on hydraulic excavators, published by the Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA), ...

Strategic Forum sets up dedicated safety group on quick hitches after recent death on Skanska/GrantRail project A subgroup dedicated to quick hitch safety has been set up by the Strategic Forum, ...

Stan Roberts of Glan Conwy in North Wales has early prototypes of his ‘Stan Hitch’ or standardised hitch system in operation on his and local test farms for much of the past decade having begun plans ...

Quick-hitch systems seem to be all the rage right now. Austrian firm Gangl and Welsh farmer Stan Roberts have both designed systems to make coupling up to three-point linkage mounted implements ...