Thanks California. Helpful.
But here's a "minor" difference that would be obvious to an experienced tractor dude which was lost on me. The bush hog came along with the tractor and I am pretty certain the previous owner in his instructions told me how to use it. Correctly. Engage the PTO and off I go. I have a bunch of hours happily bush hogging (and in some cases "yee-hawing!" while I wipe out the floribunda and blackberries and saplings which are trying to consume my pasture).
Otherwise we mostly used the FEL for stuff around the barn.
Bought some new equipment to make our own hay. So of course I diligently read all the manuals. (They must have used google to translate from Chinese and Italian -- now that's a trip.) And checked my tractor manual ... and discovered apparently I have been running the bush hog at the wrong PTO. Uh oh.
Well. No. (I was actually doing it right.) What I belatedly and sadly discovered on my re-reading is that not only is the throttle direction opposite (which I never "noticed" since that in inherently obviousl) is the PTO speed lever was "flipped." (?)
The manual diagram for the YM240 has 540 RPM "back" (up) and 1000 RPM "forward" (down). (Side bar: I never knew there was an 800 or why, but that explains the extra little step I have to do sometimes to get it to disengage when I think I am putting the PTO into neutral. Learn something new everyday.)
Because I was working alone at the time (helpful husband somehow is always out of town when I got to this point) I did not notice right away that "up" was indeed NOT 540 and in a bit of an **** mode I was following what the manual said instead of my previous experience. The sound and feel were something new, so I didn't figure it out right away. :duh: I know now, but thought I was wrong in what I recalled from the manual. Nope. It is reversed.
So here's the scoop for new / novice owners of some of the Yanmar gray market tractors ... some of the info is reversed.
(Don't the Japanese drive on the wrong side of the road also?
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