Post hole digger - helpful hint

wellmax99

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I you ever get your post hole digger stuck and you have an old Ferguson tractor with ground speed PTO option.

Equipment: TO35 tractor, pto driven post hole digger.
Problem: Freeing a stuck post hole digger auger.

Today, a guy told me you can do the following to get a stuck post hole digger auger freed up.

1. Jack up one rear wheel off the ground. Lock the brake on the other wheel.
2. Place the PTO lever in ground position
3. Place the gear lever in reverse, Let out clutch, he said the PTO will run backwards and will unscrew the auger out of the ground!!!!!

They say it works!!!!!
 

It does work. Lots of machinery got ran backwards back in the day because with the earlier model Fergusons you could back up with the pto engaged and the implement still turned in the same direction as normal. When ground drive came along and farmers thought it was the same as the earlier models they found out it wasn't!!! You back up with the implement in ground pto speed and it will turn the implement backwards!!!
 
It does work.The neighbor would lift one side of the MF 65 with the 3020/loader. Ground drive and reverse and that digger would just 'unscrew' it self from the ground
 
Not that I'll ever need this useful bit of information, but that is why I continue to be attracted to this web site. You learn something new nearly every day. Thanks for posting. gobble
 

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