Help - won't start due to idiotic move on my part! Stood up with PTO on!!!

[Tx Jim]

Hyd pto &/or hyd shuttle can't have hyd pressure for any clutch engagement without engine running unless system has a hyd oil accumulator which I seriously doubt this 68 HP Kubota tractor possesses. I think moving tractor fwd or back or turning pto shaft won't aid starting problem.

 

[BLUE ME]

If it has a pto switch make sure it is turned off to start.

 

[oosik]

After I start the tractor, engage my pto and stand up to get off the tractor - the pto safety alarm buzzes about 6-8 times. This, BTW, is part of the tractors safety procedure and if this does not happen then there is a safety problem. However, nothing turns off or dies.
It sure sound to me like a wire(s) have come disconnected

 

[SPYDERLK]

Does anyone know what the outcome was?
We are having the same problem now. A friend shut the tractor with the brush hog running and the tractor is stuck wayyyyyyyyyyyyy in the woods. Is all we get is a buzzing sound.
We tried everything, shaking handle and so on. Next step will most likely be an expensive one. We are a good few miles in the mountains and 10-12 from a main road. Luckily we were done and the path is big and smooth. All for hunting.
This is an M series Kubota 68 HP 4 wheel drive.

I doubt he ever got it started. He defeated the seat switch and pulled its fuse. Ordinarily the switch being closed and conducting is required to run the engine. No way for it to conduct if its fuse is out.
larry

 

[rScotty]

I doubt he ever got it started. He defeated the seat switch and pulled its fuse. Ordinarily the switch being closed and conducting is required to run the engine. No way for it to conduct if its fuse is out.
larry

Larry, I was wondering about very thing - if the original poster had any success defeating the switch like he said.....but I'm betting he figured it out......hope so, anyway.

Seems to me that anything manufactured has some bad with the good and this new move to interconnected safety switches isn't worked out very well. I've found it convenient to defeat a couple of safety switches on various tractors in order to be able to use the machine effectively. And there are some switches - like the HST start/safety one on our M59 - that I definitely want to keep. Like you, I've found that some of these safety switches are normally open and others are normally closed. It helps to know which is which. And I agree that if the original poster is talking about the switch I think he is, then it is probably one that is defeated by shorting it's leads together instead of by making it into a permanently open circuit. Although maybe he got lucky and pulled the wrong wire entirely since the similar switch on my tractor is not on a fused circuit.

Not being real smart on this stuff, when I want to bypass a safety switch I begin by replacing it with a hand-operated toggle switch until I can figure out just what all it does.

I'd rather be lucky than smart,
rScotty