PTO Question

[Anonymous Poster]

Thank you all so very much. It turned out to be fairly easy once I unhooked the tiller from the middle of the shaft, and took off the guard, I had room to see what I was doing, and a few taps with a hammer and a wood block, it went down to the locking position, then just came off like it was supposed to. Luckily, their was no damage except the broken grease fitting. I am not even mad at my son in law. I did however over do it with the post hole digger yesterday, and I am so sore, I can hardly walk. A friend is coming back to help today so I am up and having coffee now. I should get some older friends, who are not so gung ho. Thank you all again for your help. That little bit of confidence after reading your posts gave me the determination to get it done. I only have 10 hours on my tractor, does that make me a newbie?

Rfawkes /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[chrisjbell]

<font color="blue"> I only have 10 hours on my tractor, does that make me a newbie?
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I don't know. I'm a relative newbie with nearly 500 hours on my tractor - I make some pretty dumb posts. But I think the question is...since you nearly killed yourself digging postholes, one must assume that was done with a manual digger. Shouldn't you have been putting hours on your tractor with a posthole digger /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif?

 

[Egon]

Good to hear all went well.

Now to forestall a repeat. Has the PTO length been measured and cut to length ?

Egon

 

[BillyP]

Good deal! I bet the son-in-law slid the shaft on a bit too hard and it went past the locking position. Sometimes, when that happens, it will stick. You might want to tell the son-in-law to lay off the Cherrios /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Glad you got it loose.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I put a good 800+ hours on my 6 (now 7) tractors every year for the past 30 years, and I still come up with some real interesting questions on them. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

--->Paul

 

[Anonymous Poster]

As has been noted elsewhere, you don't know what you don't know.
I suspect that as in most other things, with tractors you cease to be a newbie when you realize how much you don't know. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
I'm not even to the newbie stage- I'm more of an egg myself... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif