Bob_Young
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- Joined
- Jul 5, 2002
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- Location
- North of the Fingerlakes - NY
- Tractor
- Ford 4000; Ford 2000(both 3cyl.);JD40; 2004 Kubota L4300; 2006 Kubota B7610; new 2007 Kubota MX5000
My '04 L4300 has independent hydraulic PTO. I've been using it to run a Woods Brush Bull 720. The combination seems to work rather well in the brush I have, but the BB 720 is clearly near the upper end of what the tractor can handle.
When I disengage the PTO at operating RPM, the Brush Bull takes nearly a minute to coast down to a stop. Bringing the cutter RPM down with the engine, by throttling back before disengaging, seems to put more strain on everything so I normally disengage at operating speed and let it coast down. So far this hasn't posed a problem.
Reading the TractorSmart PTO tutorial this morning, I noticed independent hydraulic PTO normally incorporates a PTO brake. The L4300 does no braking that I can detect and, for now, that's the way I like it. The question is: Is it supposed to? Does it have a PTO brake that's either non-functional or one that I've already managed to destroy?
Bob
When I disengage the PTO at operating RPM, the Brush Bull takes nearly a minute to coast down to a stop. Bringing the cutter RPM down with the engine, by throttling back before disengaging, seems to put more strain on everything so I normally disengage at operating speed and let it coast down. So far this hasn't posed a problem.
Reading the TractorSmart PTO tutorial this morning, I noticed independent hydraulic PTO normally incorporates a PTO brake. The L4300 does no braking that I can detect and, for now, that's the way I like it. The question is: Is it supposed to? Does it have a PTO brake that's either non-functional or one that I've already managed to destroy?
Bob