PTO cover

steve19438 · Feb 25, 2016

looking at Murph76 beautiful 202 got me wondering. how many of you use a pto cover when the pto is not in use? I do.

maxwell99 · Feb 25, 2016

I still have the cover but do not use it,

Years ago my rotary cutter pto coupling got loose and slide forward, this action messed up the cover threads so it will no longer screw onto the tractor housing,

I just keep the pto shaft sprayed with graphite so it does not rust, has worked fine,

Phil Tibbetts · Feb 25, 2016

Got a couple that I never use.

Charles in Aus. · Feb 25, 2016

Left without a cover the spinning pto shaft picks up all sorts of fibres , hair, grass, wire , hay band , the lot . These eventually build up and cause trouble with shaft connectors or worse still ruin the pto seal . The oil that then leaks out makes more things stick until the seal is worn out completely .
Apart from that there is always the risk of a trouser cuff going astray :shock:

wellmax99 · Feb 25, 2016

I could not understand your point then I think I got it.

on my TO35 you would not have to let the pto shaft spin unless you were using a pto driven piece of equipment.

but on the older tractors the pto shaft has to spin all the time in order for the lift to work.

am I right on this one??????

if so, I see you point on the spinning shaft possibly picking up stuff and spinning it on the shaft. therefore you would want to have the shaft covered when not in use.

Charles in Aus. · Feb 26, 2016

(quoted from post at 03:27:15 02/26/16) on the older tractors the pto shaft has to spin all the time in order for the lift to work.
am I right on this one??????.

That's right Wellmax , especially the English TE20 , no lift without the pto spinning away . Not too familiar with the TO 20 but I think it's the same .
My mate had a piece of fishing line tangle round his , it cut the seal to ribbons . Fortunately they are not hard to replace .
The worst story I have heard of concerned a roll pin left in the pto shaft , it had slipped and stuck out to one side . It caught an owner's sleeve as he was fitting a stabiliser bar to a grader blade . Dislocated his wrist and elbow , broke two fingers and smashed his shoulder against the rear casting .
I fit mine all the time when not using the pto .

Boss Hog · Feb 28, 2016

My PTO shaft either has a PTO shaft or a cover on it. I never leave it "bare".

I want to keep the PTO clean, so shafts slide on and off easily.

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