Corriher should know better

[lens12]

The definition given in the first post by Rick with Corriher Implement Co., Inc was "Live PTO is the ability to stop the movement of the tractor while keeping the PTO turning". I gave the YM1500 example to show that that wasn't a good definition. Rick probably should have said "Live PTO is the ability to start & stop the movement of the tractor while keeping the PTO turning" I don't agree with that definition either. The live pto has a seperate clutch to engage it. To engage the pto on a powershift Yanmar you use the same clutch as the transmission. The power is still being transmitted through the transmission & if you step on the clutch while the pto is engaged the momentum of a mower will still push you. It is a transmission driven pto. "Live" PTOs operate independently of the tractor drivetrain. I strongly agree that the powershift can be operated like a live pto , but it is not a live pto. The North American Equipment Dealers Association does not list any Yanmars as having live pto's. This is a matter of semantics. If the ad said "It operates like a live pto " , I don't think there would have been any problem.

Union Farm Equipments' third method is still a transmission driven pto.

 

[tractor123]

It is live PTO on Yanmar power shift tractors the transmchion

 

[Tractors4u]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It seems to come down to weather some one was trying to intentionally mislead )</font>

I am beginning to wonder. They have consistantly spec'd the HP of tractors they sell higher than anyone else. Usually 2 to 3 hp higher than what they really are. Maybe they put the tractors on a dyno and test them. Take a YM2500 for example. Typically they are sold as a 28 or 29 hp tractor. They have their 2500's listed as 32hp machines. They currently have a Hinomoto E152 listed on ebay and they claim it is the same as the Massey 205. That is wrong, the Massey 205 was built from a 182.

There is enough misinformation out there without adding more to it.