PTO reversal

bernieinva · Apr 17, 2018

Does anyone know of a mfg for a simple PTO reversal gearbox?

riveroadrat · Apr 17, 2018

What are you putting it on? Just googled it. Lots of choices.

jm. · Apr 17, 2018

Some of the very first KUBOTAS had revers pto and we used a box from hub city bearing. That has been 30 years ago. What tractor are you running with a backward PTO?

Bob · Apr 17, 2018

You mite drop us just a subtle hint as to what you are working with. As a reply says Hub City Gear (and likely others) make some gearboxes to do interesting things with PTO's.

But they ain't CHEAP. unless you are trying to do this with a tractor with some serious value, the gearbox will cost more than your old tractor is worth.

Just say'in!

bernieinva · Apr 18, 2018

I've got a litter spreader where the spinners were made to turn the opposite way most spinners turn. It doesnt do a very good job.
I was thinking to put a gear box in there to reverse the direction.

Ron/PA · Apr 18, 2018

If you reverse it at the tractor, wouldn't your apron pull front?

BarnyardEngineering · Apr 18, 2018

(quoted from post at 04:15:08 04/18/18) I've got a litter spreader where the spinners were made to turn the opposite way most spinners turn. It doesnt do a very good job.
I was thinking to put a gear box in there to reverse the direction.

I'm guessing here that you have some sort of fertilizer or seed spreader, not a manure spreader.

Frankly it would cost more to do the gearbox than to find a new spreader. I've picked up small PTO fertilizer/seed spreaders at auctions for as little as $10.

Or can you just unrivet the paddles from the spinners, and turn them around?

Perhaps swapping the spinners from one side to the other?

teddy52food · Apr 18, 2018

Get a cub as they turn backwards.

DoubleO7 · Apr 18, 2018

Mount up one of the Jeep rear pto reverser gearboxes.
From the flatfender era of Jeep.
standard 540 pto output shaft.
Input has a flanged hub on another splined shaft.

They can be found for a lot less than a reverser marketed towards tractors.

Butch(OH) · Apr 18, 2018

I-H sold such devises that were used on Cub and Cub cadet tractors, both reversed the shaft but one of them was 1-1 ration and the other one had a reduction too. They are around here and there for sale. The one that fits a Cub is usually cheaper than the Cub cadet unit.

Bernie/MA · Apr 18, 2018

I used to build carwash machines. I found a gearbox on a junked tire brush to reverse the pump on my dump trailer behind my 9N Ford.

gwstang · Apr 18, 2018

Wouldn't the reverse pto be mighty handy for when a post hole digger auger gets stuck? I've had to "Unwind" mine several times...with a big pipe wrench and a loooong cheater pipe...lol

DoubleO7 · Apr 19, 2018

(quoted from post at 23:26:27 04/18/18)
Wouldn't the reverse pto be mighty handy for when a post hole digger auger gets stuck? I've had to "Unwind" mine several times...with a big pipe wrench and a loooong cheater pipe...lol

It would be, but it would also be more expensive if it was a shiftable box.
Most are full time reverse.

I do not recall ever seeing an add-on pto gear box that is shiftable from clockwise to counterclockwise.

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