TC34DA, Mid Pto Problem

[BarnStangz]

Safety switches are there for a reason; safety; I would not reccomend anyone to bypass a safety switch. If an operator pbypasses his switch on his own, then there is no liability on anyone.
I would hate to read that someone on this forum bypassed a switch as per someones instruction and was injured do to the bypass. This is only my opinion on the subject.

dqdave1,

I respect your opinion and I agree with you that safety switches are just for that... safety, however (and don't get me wrong mistakes and accidents can and WILL happen) I just pointed something out that I did. If others want to follow they can. I'm not going to force someone to do something that they don't want to do. For me, jumping the switch was done since it was inconvenient for me to have to shift to neutral and set the parking brake just to hope off and move something or stand up when wanting to look over at what I was doing. Ultimately it is going to come down to choice for what will be done by whomever But I do respect what you said, I do not want to start any flame wars here and I would like to say that jumping any safety device isn't for everyone. Just my opinion.

Max

 

[dqdave1]

Enough said on bypasses.

 

[BarnStangz]

Enough said on bypasses.

Agreed. Us Ohioans have to stick together. I grew up in Geauga County... It's going to start looking really beautiful there, unlike forest-less Wood County...

M.

 

[daTeacha]

As another Buckeye joining the party, I would like to be able to flip a switch to disable the safety switch when needed, otherwise have it working. I find myself rising up off the seat now and then to see just how close I am to something and it's a real pain to have the engine quit. It would seem a toggle switch inserted in the lines should work but I haven't been annoyed often enough yet to cause me to mess with it.

 

[BarnStangz]

As another Buckeye joining the party, I would like to be able to flip a switch to disable the safety switch when needed, otherwise have it working. I find myself rising up off the seat now and then to see just how close I am to something and it's a real pain to have the engine quit. It would seem a toggle switch inserted in the lines should work but I haven't been annoyed often enough yet to cause me to mess with it.

An inline switch would be a cool idea. Then you could still have safety, but turn it off if you needed to stand up to look while loading something maybe... I'd do that, but I'm with you...

...but I haven't been annoyed often enough yet to cause me to mess with it.

 

[mjonesnh]

Update:

I took tractor to my dealer Wed. for repair. Service found the mid pto case was in a bind. All they did was unbolt case from rear housing and then bolt everything back together. This also took care of the tractor shutting down when it should not have been doing so.
Dealer also installed fresh hydraulic fluid, new HST filter, and new main hydraulic filter just to make sure there was no pieces of metal shavings floating around in hydraulic sump. Everything seems to be back in proper working order now.

 

[BarnStangz]

Update:

I took tractor to my dealer Wed. for repair. Service found the mid pto case was in a bind. All they did was unbolt case from rear housing and then bolt everything back together. This also took care of the tractor shutting down when it should not have been doing so.
Dealer also installed fresh hydraulic fluid, new HST filter, and new main hydraulic filter just to make sure there was no pieces of metal shavings floating around in hydraulic sump. Everything seems to be back in proper working order now.

Glad to hear that you're back in business! Interesting that there was a bind in there... oh well.. werid stuff. At least it's fixed. Did they say what could have caused it, or if there are things you should look for next time, do's, don'ts etc. Thanks.

Max