GreenYellow
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2015
- Messages
- 228
- Location
- Texarkana, AR
- Tractor
- 1994 John Deere 670 and 1948 John Deere B
Let's have a show of hands who keeps a plastic sleeve around your PTO shaft at all times. The one on my shredder is toast and I have major heartburn with the $149 price tag TSC has on a new one. (it's just a plastic sleeve!)
I KNOW how dangerous a PTO shaft can be. I have heard/read of several terrible injuries/death from people getting tangled in an engaged shaft. No one debates that they are man killers.
I suspect at some point I'll get a new sleeve on it... For now I'm just using common sense and staying the heck away from it. I get the occasional vine or tall grass stem wrapped on it.
So tell me, do you keep yours in "proper" condition? Any first hand encounters?
I KNOW how dangerous a PTO shaft can be. I have heard/read of several terrible injuries/death from people getting tangled in an engaged shaft. No one debates that they are man killers.
I suspect at some point I'll get a new sleeve on it... For now I'm just using common sense and staying the heck away from it. I get the occasional vine or tall grass stem wrapped on it.
So tell me, do you keep yours in "proper" condition? Any first hand encounters?