My tractor won't start and I could really use some help asap

[vanguard]

So - I didn't think in this day and time you could start a tractor , lawn mower , car, with out setting in the seat and your foot on the clutch . In the vid. your helper is not setting in the seat . Are you shure that's not the case ?

There might be a seat switch related to the PTO, I'm not sure. I'll have to try standing up the next time I'm mowing. However, I can easily start it when it's in neutral and the PTO isn't on. I do it a fair amount to move the hydraulics.

 

[murphy1244]

There might be a seat switch related to the PTO, I'm not sure. I'll have to try standing up the next time I'm mowing. However, I can easily start it when it's in neutral and the PTO isn't on. I do it a fair amount to move the hydraulics.

There is no seat switch in your DK as James KOua said.

 

[paulfun9]

There is no seat safety at all on the DK, The PTO will keep running if you get off while it is running.

 

[k0ua]

Not having a seat switch is mighty handy when you need to stand up a bit to get your fork tips going straight into a pallet.

 

[murphy1244]

Not having a seat switch is mighty handy when you need to stand up a bit to get your fork tips going straight into a pallet.

Also for running a chipper shredder..

 

[Hill Billy Bob]

Glad you got it fixed.....but I have to tell you, that watching your video made me kringe.....I had a friend die a couple of years ago, doing exactly what you were doing. He was in his seventies, had owned and maintained tractors all of his life, died while trying to start one, as you, standing beside it. The engine fired up, the tranny wasn't in nuetral as he thought, it knocked him down, and ran over his chest. It took his son a minute or so, to get to him, just in time to hear him mumble, "is the tractor ok?" You can't be too careful around tractors, and all of the their attachments.

Sorry if I come off as a preacher....I don't mean to. But every time I climb into the cab of my CK, I think about him, and what a shame it is that he's gone.

 

[Highgear]

And That - is what is what I was thinking !

 

[IndyIan]

With an HST tractor you can get some bad habits, but it shouldn't run you over. Its in both neutrals when you start it with the range selector in N and the pedals centered in "N". My favorite is hooking up something on the 3pt and pressing the hst pedals by hand to line things up, it easily overpowers the brakes in low range.