Hooking up PTO w/ Engine Running

[Soundguy]

IMHO.. /ORC/ shouldn't be that unfamiliar on a tractor site

as for shutting equipment off?

I guess I worked around heavy equipment and stationary equipment way too long. sawmills and belted equipment.. augers..e tc. road work machines.. IE.. stuff you start int he morning and shut off when it starts getting dark..

if I turned my machine off ever time my foot hit the ground I'd be knee deep in starter cores in my garage. gates to open close, stuff to move, get down for a drink from the cooler, whizz on a bush.. hand the wife the gas card from the wallette.. etc..e tc..

soundguy

 

[grsthegreat]

ya, i feel more vulnerable when i have to work around live 1600 amp electrical panels (hospitals), and i cant shut them off, then i do around my tractor.

 

[Soundguy]

ya, i feel more vulnerable when i have to work around live 1600 amp electrical panels (hospitals), and i cant shut them off, then i do around my tractor.

yep.. I do plenty o stuff that feels way LESS safe than working around my tractor.

like going to the range and seeing NEW people who have just bought their first gun... now that scares me...

soundguy

 

[grsthegreat]

yep.. I do plenty o stuff that feels way LESS safe than working around my tractor.

like going to the range and seeing NEW people who have just bought their first gun... now that scares me...

soundguy

YUP..... or worse yet, i went to an outdoor range years ago when i lived in Californiacate, and a bunch of gang bangers show up with modified AK's..... scarred the shi& out of us. we left pronto. Now THAT scared me. My tractor makes me all bunny petting mellow.

 

[canoetrpr]

the reason engineers have to mistrust stuff like that is because 1, when they designed it.. it was good, overbuilt and safe like a rock.. then some dern bean counter figured they could save a penny on every 5000 units, called for a value-engineered re-design that just barely makes it past warranty 80% of the time.. uses flimsy parts, is designed to be repalced or fail, and in general, is probably brittle.

ask any engineer if you don't believe me.

bean counters get more input into the way something is built than we, the engineers do. BTDT on jobs I've engineered.

soundguy

x2 to what soundguy said. I'm an engineer and you won't believe the things the bean counters do. I'm going to turn off the power source to anything that can hurt me before handling it. Just my own rule of thumb. I might feel differently if time was money on my tractor I guess.

 

[PHIL850]

I don't trust the safety on a firearm, and the same goes for my Tractor.
Shut her down and hook it up.

Ciao, Phil

 

[slofr8]

Usually running.

 

[North West Farmer]

I believe I am addressing Wedge40,

Whoever, the question that was asked of me was in my years of experience responding to power shaft/PTO emergencies which was the most common cause of the accident, hooking up PTO's or working around or having a misshape around a shaft that is already turning.

By far the most common accident involved someone working around a power shaft and accidently contacting it, rubbing up against it etc. The amazing thing I have oberved is that often times a slow turning shaft is more lethal than a high speed shaft. The slow turning shaft gets hold of you andslowly wraps you up into and eventually around the shaft, a slow miserable death.

High speed shafts are prone to ripping off a pant leg, a coat sleeve or some part of clothing. The victom may walk away with a contusion on the body part and damage to his clothing. I have also responded to horrendous accidents involving high speed shafts that grabbed some heave clothing and very quickly wrapped the clothing and the victom around the shaft or just tore them up real bad and left body parts scattered in a fairly wide area.

After you have seen enough accidents of any kind, it comes down to pick your poison, it is is going to get you it is your time.

Everybody, take great caution in working around power and or PTO shafts. They can get you if you do the wrong thing or just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Nick, North West Farmer

 

[Short Game]

Well, I guess that just about wraps it up!

 

[Soundguy]

last time I was at the range, someone waved their gun down the entire row of people, and later on after we called cold range and half of us were putting targets up.. there this guy was on the end of the line and snapped off 5 rounds in fast succession, people dove for cover.. I think he almost got beat down over that one..

that's what scares me.. not my tractor pto magically activating ..... as much as I wouldn't mind having a key chain fob to remote start and drive and activate my tractors hyds and pto.. so far I havn't seen one yet..

soundguy