>> PTO SHIFTER EXTENSION <<

[BearKiller]

When I got my tractor, the shifter-knob for the PTO was missing in action, with only a threaded stub sticking up.

This was actually a blessing, as I made it ever so much better; whereas, had the knob have been there, I probably wouldn't ever have taken time to improve it.

Being metric, a coupling-nut was not to be had without placing an order and paying the cost of many nuts in shipping; so, I took four regular metric nuts, lined them up on a bolt, and welded them into a stack, making one long nut.

I chased the threads with a tap to clean up any mis-alignment or welder slag.

I drove this stack of nuts into a maybe ten-inch length of maybe 1/2-I.D. pipe that I found in the scrap and welded them in.

I capped the other end by welding on a big chrome lug-nut that had been stripped.

I painted her Massey-Ferguson RED and screwed her onto the PTO shifter stub.

Much better; no longer do I have to lean way over and make a conscious effort to engage/dis-engage the PTO; the shiny new shifter-extension is easily accessable, without getting in a strain to operate it.


I wish I knew pictures; I would show one.

 

[deepNdirt]

Sounds like a good idea came together for you, isn't it crazy how the manufactures only provide a nub of a lever to engage the PTO,
I was less creative when extending the lever I sister along side of the lever with another lever I found from a parts tractor welding them together, I then slip a rubber hose over the 2 covering the welds, was for sure much easier to use after 11 year of the other way, and then sold the tractor soon after