featherstone
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The vegetable farm I work on owns a Landini Powerfarm 105 HC for all sorts of field prep and harvest work. We also have the nearly identical McCormick high clearance unit (from what I understand same manufacturer, just colored red)
We have had recurrent issues with the PTO and three-point draft control on both tractors. PTO has an engagement lever to the left of the seat and a PTO clutch lever by the steering wheel. We engage the seat lever and then raise the clutch lever which makes the PTO turn. Increasingly this year the engagement lever would pop out of gear once we started to do actual work with the PTO. For example, when rototilling all goes well until the rototiller is lowered into the earth and then the engagement lever pops forward and out of gear. We have tried using wire to secure the lever and prevent it from popping forward with success some of the time, but this doesn't seem like it should be necessary. We also tried removing the linkage arm from the engagement lever, lengthening it slightly and seeing if that would engage it further, which worked at first, but no longer.
The three-point issue is one of implements jittering/bouncing around when the implement is raised/being raised. Since some of our equipment has humans as riders/on-board operators, this is highly unsafe. The bouncing at times is severe enough that the tractor driver is going for quite the wild ride. We have temporarily resolved the 3-point issue by disconnecting the draft control, but now the 3-point does not have the same range of lift.
Anybody have thoughts/experience? All help appreciated.
We have had recurrent issues with the PTO and three-point draft control on both tractors. PTO has an engagement lever to the left of the seat and a PTO clutch lever by the steering wheel. We engage the seat lever and then raise the clutch lever which makes the PTO turn. Increasingly this year the engagement lever would pop out of gear once we started to do actual work with the PTO. For example, when rototilling all goes well until the rototiller is lowered into the earth and then the engagement lever pops forward and out of gear. We have tried using wire to secure the lever and prevent it from popping forward with success some of the time, but this doesn't seem like it should be necessary. We also tried removing the linkage arm from the engagement lever, lengthening it slightly and seeing if that would engage it further, which worked at first, but no longer.
The three-point issue is one of implements jittering/bouncing around when the implement is raised/being raised. Since some of our equipment has humans as riders/on-board operators, this is highly unsafe. The bouncing at times is severe enough that the tractor driver is going for quite the wild ride. We have temporarily resolved the 3-point issue by disconnecting the draft control, but now the 3-point does not have the same range of lift.
Anybody have thoughts/experience? All help appreciated.
