Secret to hooking up PTO shaft

[k0ua]

I just don't understand why you guys have so many problems hooking up PTO shafts...

IF you take the time to get and KEEP everything clean and working smoothly, it's really a pretty easy job that goes quickly...

SR

I agree. This is a job that should take seconds, not minutes.

 

[CincyFlyer]

It took me exactly two minutes to back up to my stump grinder (Woodland Mills), catch it in the quick hitch, lift it up a little (helps align the shaft), and connect the drive shaft. Both PTO shaft and connector are clean and greased, as they should be. The toughest thing is the button on the spring pin, the PTO guard gets in the way. I may hinge it.

 

[JRobyn]

I have some medical issues, so I run out of steam easily. Just a few minutes ago, I un-quick-hitched my box blade, quick-hitched the bushhog (had to adjust the top hook one set of holes), got it leveled with the lift arm adjuster, got the top link length about right, but then ran out.

So I was SUPER pleased when my wife skillfully connected the pto shaft and greased up the tail wheel. It does help a lot to start by making sure that you can rotate either the implement pto shaft or the tractor pto stub, that the pto shaft halves slide smoothly, that the pto stub is reasonably clean, and that there's some sort of lube on it all. Fluid Film has been my favorite for a long time now. I very rarely need to add any more and the stub stays pretty clean. She even came inside before she went to bushhog to tell me that she made sure it "clicked" and she tested it by pulling back and forth.

I agree it can be frustrating at times, but c'mon guys!!

 

[k0ua]

I have some medical issues, so I run out of steam easily. Just a few minutes ago, I un-quick-hitched my box blade, quick-hitched the bushhog (had to adjust the top hook one set of holes), got it leveled with the lift arm adjuster, got the top link length about right, but then ran out.

So I was SUPER pleased when my wife skillfully connected the pto shaft and greased up the tail wheel. It does help a lot to start by making sure that you can rotate either the implement pto shaft or the tractor pto stub, that the pto shaft halves slide smoothly, that the pto stub is reasonably clean, and that there's some sort of lube on it all. Fluid Film has been my favorite for a long time now. I very rarely need to add any more and the stub stays pretty clean. She even came inside before she went to bushhog to tell me that she made sure it "clicked" and she tested it by pulling back and forth.

I agree it can be frustrating at times, but c'mon guys!!

Definitely a "keeper". :thumbsup:

 

[newbury]

<snip>my wife skillfully connected the pto shaft and greased up the tail wheel. <snip>

Now that's the way to go!

I also have a bad back but had no difficulty hooking up several different model shafts (all with pin or bolt) to several different tractors, all tractors that let me put the PTO in neutral so I could spin the shaft.
Then I got a tractor and bush hog lent to me. The owner told me to push the pin in on the PTO shaft.
There was no pin.
Turns out is was one with collar and balls.

Seems down right stupid to have to pull back while pushing forward.

 

[Oldpath05]

Now that's the way to go!

I also have a bad back but had no difficulty hooking up several different model shafts (all with pin or bolt) to several different tractors, all tractors that let me put the PTO in neutral so I could spin the shaft.
Then I got a tractor and bush hog lent to me. The owner told me to push the pin in on the PTO shaft.
There was no pin.
Turns out is was one with collar and balls.

Seems down right stupid to have to pull back while pushing forward.

Finally someone mention my issue with so-called pto quick couplings, I always forget do I push forward while pulling back or is it pulling back while pushing forward or do I crab the Ford wrench and adjust the FEL then try it again, what kind of re neck engineering is that anyways.

 

[CalG]

One thing that does sort of turn me against the "pull while you push" retainers at the pto spud is that I seem to always be pushing a bit harder than I'm pulling, and when the mechanism clears the collar, the socket, yoke and half the drive shaft bolt forward onto the tractor spud, ... and jamb!

I've had to get a pry bar to pull the danged thing back away just to get it to click in.

I'm sure it all would have found a way just by running the implement, but I like to hear, see and feel the pto lock. Let's just say, "once burned, twice shy".

 

[Oldpath05]

One thing that does sort of turn me against the "pull while you push" retainers at the pto spud is that I seem to always be pushing a bit harder than I'm pulling, and when the mechanism clears the collar, the socket, yoke and half the drive shaft bolt forward onto the tractor spud, ... and jamb!

I've had to get a pry bar to pull the danged thing back away just to get it to click in.

I'm sure it all would have found a way just by running the implement, but I like to hear, see and feel the pto lock. Let's just say, "once burned, twice shy".

Yes I've done that same thing, it's called unsynchronized hand and brain syndrome, dont think theres a cure for it either but some have found a liquid formula that seems alleviate the symptoms and frustrations, side affects are slurred speech, not being able to stand and blurred vision............

 

[CalG]

Yes I've done that same thing, it's called unsynchronized hand and brain syndrome, dont think theres a cure for it either but some have found a liquid formula that seems alleviate the symptoms and frustrations, side affects are slurred speech, not being able to stand and blurred vision............

Is that liquid formula poured on the PTO spud? Or put in a glass? ;-)

 

[Old Red]

My 15 foot batwing bush hog is so heavy and difficult to hook up?and it is basically brand new. HATE connecting the PTO shaft to that thing!