oldgrayfellow
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- Feb 19, 2010
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The goal:
Make a low-horsepower PTO for installation on a vehicle (mini-truck) that does not have one. (But DOES have a hydraulic pump).
The idea:
Take a PTO-driven hydraulic pump (originally used to power a sickle-bar mower) and connect it to the existing hydraulic pump on the mini truck, so that instead of a PTO driving the hydraulic pump (as in the original design), the hydraulic pump now drives the PTO.
(Put another way, in the original design, a PTO was the power input and the hydraulic pressure was the output.
What i want to do is make hydraulic pressure (from a separate, engine-driven pump) the power input, and make a PTO shaft be the output.)
Would most PTO-driven hydraulic pumps be able to transfer power in the reverse direction this way?
Make a low-horsepower PTO for installation on a vehicle (mini-truck) that does not have one. (But DOES have a hydraulic pump).
The idea:
Take a PTO-driven hydraulic pump (originally used to power a sickle-bar mower) and connect it to the existing hydraulic pump on the mini truck, so that instead of a PTO driving the hydraulic pump (as in the original design), the hydraulic pump now drives the PTO.
(Put another way, in the original design, a PTO was the power input and the hydraulic pressure was the output.
What i want to do is make hydraulic pressure (from a separate, engine-driven pump) the power input, and make a PTO shaft be the output.)
Would most PTO-driven hydraulic pumps be able to transfer power in the reverse direction this way?