ASABE adopts international standard on hitch ring dimensions.
Press Release Summary:
ASABE/ISO 21244:2008 (JAN2011), Agricultural equipment - Mechanical connections between towed and towing vehicles - Implement hitch rings and attachment to tractor drawbars, contains no deviations from ISO document. Adoption follows 2009 withdrawal of ASAE S482, Drawbars - Agricultural Wheel Tractors, and the 2009 adoption with deviations of ISO 6489-3, ANSI/ASABE AD 6489-3:2004. Together these actions provide appropriate guidance to manufactures designing tractor to implement hitches.
Original Press Release:
ASABE Adopts International Standard on Hitch Ring Dimensions
ST JOSEPH, MICHIGAN- The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has adopted international standard ISO 21244:2008, Agricultural equipment - Mechanical connections between towed and towing vehicles - Implement hitch rings and attachment to tractor drawbars.
The ASABE document, ASABE/ISO 21244:2008 (JAN2011), Agricultural equipment - Mechanical connections between towed and towing vehicles - Implement hitch rings and attachment to tractor drawbars, is an identical adoption, meaning that it contains no deviations from the ISO document. The adoption follows the 2009 withdrawal of ASAE S482, Drawbars - Agricultural Wheel Tractors, and the 2009 adoption with deviations of ISO 6489-3, ANSI/ASABE AD 6489-3:2004, Agricultural vehicles - Mechanical connections between towed and towing vehicles - Part 3: Tractor drawbar. Together these actions provide appropriate guidance to manufactures designing tractor to implement hitches.
The adoption further harmonizes national and international standardization, a goal that facilitates manufacturing, safety advancements and product marketing worldwide.
A copy of the document can be ordered by contacting ASABE headquarters directly at: martin@asabe.org. ASABE members and those with site-license privileges to the ASABE online Technical Library, at www.asabe.org , can view an electronic copy of the standard in about 6 weeks.
ASABE is recognized worldwide as a standards developing organization for food, agricultural, and biological systems, with more than 225 standards currently in publication. Conformance to ASABE standards is voluntary, except where required by state, provincial, or other governmental requirements, and the documents are developed by consensus in accordance with procedures approved by the American National Standards Institute. For information on this or any other ASABE standard, contact Scott Cedarquist at ASABE, 269-932-7031, cedarq@asabe.org. A current listing of all ASABE standards projects can be found on the ASABE web site at asabe.org/standards/proposed.html .
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Its 9,000 members, from more then 100 countries, are consultants, managers, researchers, and others who have the training and experience to understand the interrelationships between technology and living systems. Further information on the Society can be obtained by contacting ASABE at (269) 429-0300 (phone) or (269) 429-3852 (fax); hq@asabe.org. Details can also be found at www.asabe.org/.
