pto shaft - help

[jvicars]

I have a newly purchased m7030. so far so good except with the used bush hog. (woods brand) Bush hog it self has been fine but so far I ripped the yoke on the pto apart. then i got a replaced shaft from another bush hog and no bent the pto shaft. The tractor is 2 strong for my shafts is my guess.

OK here is the issue. now i am trying to replace the bent part of the shaft. I have a female tube which works with my triangluar shaped shaft. I need to cut it and at the yokes. The current connection is with a pin which I removed but I cannot get the yoke off. I tried heat, hammers etc.

I guess I need to buy a new one and assemble it. Where can I find the right yoke with will allow for the traingluar shaped tube. I tried tsc and no luck. They had the female tube but not the yoke.

Help and suggestions. I am mostly down with the heavy bush hog work so I am going to stick with the lighter duty shaft and just watch how hard I am on it. Thanks.

 

[MJPetersen]

It seems to me that there should be a less costly link in there than the shaft itself. That is there should be a slip clutch or a shear pin or somethings similarly that should give BEFORE the shaft twists up like a pretzel. Think about that as you find the parts to put it back together. I hate to see money wasted when an adjustment of a slip clutch or a $1 pin could save a $200 shaft.

I checked the Woods site and the new rotory mowers have a slip clutch--maybe just an adjustment will save your next shaft.

Mike

 

[Soundguy]

I agree with the other psoter. there should be a clutch or pin to give before the saft.

now.. the shaft isn't too long is it.. and getting bent when you lif tit and it is under compression is it?

Soundguy

 

[art]

With all things being perfect somewhere, I'd wonder that what it sounds like your shaft might be to long or short for your application. Many do need to be cut between different tractors to fit right from the down position to the raised. I'd be looking at that for a potential sourse of your problem. Do you have a slip clutch, is it able to slip? There are different hefts of shafts depending on horsepower used and that might be the problem but I doubt it unless you heard something coming from the mower that would have caused it to overload the rating of the shaft. I do like to see check chains used on the front of bush hogs to give a consistant height adjustment everytime.

 

[jvicars]

my problem i think it simple. i have a cat 1 attachment with a cat 2 tractor. i dont always have the sleves in so sometimes I have some play in the 3 point hitch. this happened when one of the arms of the 3 point broke a hold pin and i was pulling out at an angle and i think bent the pto shaft at that point. I am going to replace the pins on the attachment with cat 2 pins so there is no play and I dont break retaining pins.

at this point the shaft is bent. i am going to try to take it to a drive line place and see if they can bent if back. the bent is not noticable to the eye but it dont not slide like it should without a sledge. help?

 

[Soundguy]

Why is it that pertinant info like this is not posted along with the original message??!!???!!!???!!?!?!?!?!

Makes me wonder if the people asking the questions like this are trolls.. or think that the people answering the questions as psychic.. GRR... ( off soap box mode now.. )

soundguy