WVBill
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- Joined
- Jul 21, 2000
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- Whidbey Island, WA
- Tractor
- Sold my Kubota B6100 when I moved to WA
I'm a newbie so I need help.
I switched from my rototiller to my box blade and back to the rototiller on my Kubota B6100D once so far - and spent a week nursing my back afterwards.
The PTO shaft on the rototiller has a spline that attaches to the spline on the tractor PTO, then a flexible joint, a "slip spline", another flexible joint and then the tiller gear box.
Taking the rtiller off was easy. I pulled the pin on the top link out and the tiller rotated back away from the tractor on the tiller tine shaft. This action pulled the slip spline apart. I then pulled the pins on the bottom links and was free of the tractor. Since I have no other PTO equipment and was just going to use the box blade I left the "front half" of the Tiller's PTO shaft attached to the tractor.
Putting the tiller back on was another story. Getting the bottom links back on was no problem. But then I had to rotate the tiller shaft and top link forward, align both of them and insert the pin to hold the top link in place all at the same time - while being safety conscious and staying out from between the implement and the tractor.
The tiller came with no operator's manual - but from what I've seen of Kubota operator's manuals it wouldn't have helped much.
What did I do wrong? Can anyone describe the correct process / sequence for attaching and removing a 3PH rototiller?
Thanks.
Bill
I switched from my rototiller to my box blade and back to the rototiller on my Kubota B6100D once so far - and spent a week nursing my back afterwards.
The PTO shaft on the rototiller has a spline that attaches to the spline on the tractor PTO, then a flexible joint, a "slip spline", another flexible joint and then the tiller gear box.
Taking the rtiller off was easy. I pulled the pin on the top link out and the tiller rotated back away from the tractor on the tiller tine shaft. This action pulled the slip spline apart. I then pulled the pins on the bottom links and was free of the tractor. Since I have no other PTO equipment and was just going to use the box blade I left the "front half" of the Tiller's PTO shaft attached to the tractor.
Putting the tiller back on was another story. Getting the bottom links back on was no problem. But then I had to rotate the tiller shaft and top link forward, align both of them and insert the pin to hold the top link in place all at the same time - while being safety conscious and staying out from between the implement and the tractor.
The tiller came with no operator's manual - but from what I've seen of Kubota operator's manuals it wouldn't have helped much.
What did I do wrong? Can anyone describe the correct process / sequence for attaching and removing a 3PH rototiller?
Thanks.
Bill