Modulated PTO engagement on CUTs?

[SkyPup]

The PTO engagement on our Kubota Grand L-3130 GST is modulated in direct proportion though how fast you engage the PTO lever and is completely independent of the transmission, as are all of the other Grand L series..

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( PTO it will work like a "slam it on". If you slowly move the lever over it will gradually engage the PTO. I usually throttle down to 300-400 RPM's when engaging the PTO and it does not matter if it is in gear or in neutral.)</font>

On my Nh 7610s.. If I just moved the pto engage lever straight over I'm sure it would slam on as well.. but as you mentioned.. if you 'feather ' it over it does a gradual engage.

Wow.. 300-400 rpm... I can get that low on my old gas jobs.. but my diesel doesn't like idleing that low!

Soundguy

 

[hunterridgefarm]

The 300-400 RPM speed was the PTO speed, the tractor speed is around 1300- 1800 RPM. I re-read my post and that was not very clear /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gifsorry.

 

[JerryG]

To all. The way the feather engagement works on the Massey 1200s and 1400s is that there are two solenoids. The primary solenoid is energized for as close as I can remember about a second at half pressure. Then the secondary is engaged is at full pressure. This prevents the sudden or harsh engagement that some here have had such as when using brush hogs and shearing shear pins. The 1500s have had it changed somewhat. From what I can gather, you can set it to where is engages even softer. As far as taking it out of gears to do this, you don’t have to. This is a fully independent PTO.

 

[slowzuki]

On the kubota L30's you can feather that lever or on hydro models at least feather the main clutch to save wear on the pto clutch.

I use the main clutch to engage the baler slowly, the PTO lever for most everything else.