For the past 20 years, I have kept 18 acres bush hogged using a old Ford 600 tractor. Last week, I finally got a new John Deere 3038e for the job (kept the Ford...they'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers). I thought I knew everything about a 3-point hitch, but I'm stumped by what seems a simple problem: The tractor was delivered with a bush hog, and I'm having trouble detaching it. The top link comes off fine. But, when I take the hitch pins off to free up the lift arms, there is NOT ENOUGH LATERAL MOVEMENT to get the arms off the bush hog. There has to be a simple answer to this. On each side the arms move freely, but I would need about another inch one each side to separate the lift arms from the posts on the implement. I suppose I will need to adjust or change something on the linkages of the hitch (...there is no anti-sway bar as on the old Ford, and instead there are chains and vertical members, but it seems inefficient to have to start taking the hitch apart just to detach an implement). Thanks (but embarrassed), Tom.