One stuck PHD

[755inNY]

When I've gotten my PHD screwed in to the ground, if wiggling back and forth and trying to engage the PTO didn't work, I used a pipe wrench on the auger shaft (the part that is sticking out of the hole in your picture) with an extension bar and I would unscrew the auger from the hole. I can place my PTO in a neutral position that allows fee spinning of the shaft by hand. I'm not sure if this is the case for your tractor. This is not fun work because you have limited stroke with the pipe wrench but it does the job. It helps to have a little up pressure on the 3PH to aid in lifting the auger as you unscrew it.

BUT, based on the picture you provided, I think a shovel and some strong words are what's needed. There ain't no way around it. The suction from the mud is tremendous. You may get away with shoveling a bit and unscrewing from there.

Good luck. Send us pictures when you get it out.

OR, stick a flag pole in it and secure with a 5/16 bolt.

Jeff

 

[Henro]

<font color="blue"> Hambone, you'd accomplish a "reverse" one of two ways. Either with a PTO that could shift into reverse (probably way too expensive for any tractor manufacturer to ever consider, and of very limited use) </font>

I was surprised to see the smaller Kubota tractors here in Japan have two speed rear PTOs and also that they have a reverse feature.

The PTO speed selector had three positions. Low speed, high speed and reverse. I did not think to ask what speed the reverse position worked at. Apparently they like the reverse feature here when using a tiller so they can more easily level out the tilled soil at times...

 

[cisco]

As with others, a large pipe wrench is the ticket. Had a friend, who had just purchased a PHD, somehow get the auger hooked up with a large rock or root, didn't realize it (didn't back out the PHD every once in a while to make sure it's free), and he buried the auger, part of the auger powerhead, and tilted his tractor backwards. Now, that was a challenge - really hard to get a grip on the auger, even after he finally detached it from the power head (and released the tractor - sure wish I'd taken a picture - but, he'd have killed me if I'd posted it on TBN).

 

[RayBee]

YUP! .....A 24" pipewrench and perhaps an extension, will do it /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif ....Raybee

 

[AndyM]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( See that thing in the back of the picture? )</font>

Where I come from, that's what we call "Plan B' /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Looking at that picture is giving me flashbacks to this past spring when I buried my 8N up to th rear axle! Nothing was going to get that out! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Most of us here have done something like this, or will at some point!