Mounting a PTO hydraulic pump

[Wyobuckaroo]

With a little of the stabilizer in the picture in post #4 in mind...... A number of years ago I saw where someone had built a bracket onto a piece of rectangle tube that slid over the draw bar and pinned in the draw bar hole.. The bracket bolted to the pto driven hydraulic pump.

This stabilized the pump, not letting it twist or back off the pto shaft. But had sufficient clearances to let it wobble or move enough to not put undue or unnatural strain on the pto shaft bearings and such..

Cooling fluid is important.. The more volume of fluid you can build into your system the better.. The more volume available makes for better cooling.. I also saw a home made cooling "radiator" made out of 2 lengths of 2" square tube about 10' long with 3/4 pipe between the square tubes.. It looked like a ladder with 3" rung spacing. Crude, awkward looking maybe, but also worked well..

 

[ch47dpilot]

Cooling fluid is important.. The more volume of fluid you can build into your system the better.. The more volume available makes for better cooling.. I also saw a home made cooling "radiator" made out of 2 lengths of 2" square tube about 10' long with 3/4 pipe between the square tubes.. It looked like a ladder with 3" rung spacing. Crude, awkward looking maybe, but also worked well..

I've been told your reservoir needs to be double the GPM of the pump, ie. 12GPM pump needs a 24Gallon tank. First does anyone have opinion on this? Second has anyone seen a formula to size a cooler. Surplus Center now has coolers ( AKG | Brands | www.surpluscenter.com ). They range from 17-125GPM. Just wondering how you can figure out how much smaller the tank can be if you use a cooler.

 

[mrmikey]

I made this for mine. Pulling the sleeve back to disengage the shaft and remove the torque chain was a pain in the butt. There was a mount for something directly below the output shaft that was two plates about an inch apart, all I had to d was drop a bolt down thru it with a hairpin clip to keep it in place...........Mike

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My pto pump has a chain to keep it from spinning, I put a "quality" stretchy strap over the back of it to the tractor, to keep the pump from working out/off.

It works perfectly, and I didn't need to fab up anything fancy, to fix what really isn't broken...

SR