Ground Drive PTO

Moonlite37 · Dec 10, 2019

A few post in another forum was about ground drive PTO on Massey tractors I have 165 and have only used it a couple times because I have no implements needing it. These couple times I have used it to clear a wrap of a plastic tarp and hairy vetch with a disc mower. Put it in ground drive tractor in reverse with tractor at idle and the PTO will turn backward freeing the wrap up.

DeltaRed · Dec 10, 2019

Ive also used that feature to back a stuck posthole digger out of the ground. Take a loader and pick up one rear wheel. Reverse,and the auger just unscrews it self fron the ground. I didn't know a newer tractor such as a 165 still had that feature.

495man · Dec 10, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:42:18 12/10/19) Ive also used that feature to back a stuck posthole digger out of the ground. Take a loader and pick up one rear wheel. Reverse,and the auger just unscrews it self fron the ground. I didn't know a newer tractor such as a 165 still had that feature.

I do the same thing with post hole digger, but use a bottle jack to lift one tire (LEFT) just clear of the ground, hold the brake on the wheel (RIGHT) that is on the ground, put trans in R, PTO in ground drive and let clutch out. Unscrew digger.

moresmoke · Dec 10, 2019

We had an 1100 Massey that had ground speed pto. Used it often on a rock picker that would get rocks wedged where they shouldn't have been.

Hay hay hay · Dec 10, 2019

Ground drive can work with a PTO manure spreader depending on load, ground conditions and the amount/rate you want to dump.

Dieseltech · Dec 11, 2019

Only the two stage clutch models had ground drive PTO, the independent PTO clutch models didn't have it. The very early MF 1100/1130 models also had a ground drive position, later models did away with it. The MF 175/180 models with two stage clutch had ground drive too. Some later MF 200 series with two stage clutch may have had it too, been awhile since I've seen one. Some Ford 6000 tractors had it also.

Texasmark1 · Dec 12, 2019

Now that sure beats dismantling the drive to the auger and getting out the 36" pipe wrench and a cheater pipe. I had a ground MF 35 and ran ground
drive once to see what it was all about.

Fertilizer carts come in PTO and ground drive for when a farmer just wants to pick up the cart with his PU, take it home, engage the drive, dump the fert.
disengage, drive back to the lot and be done with it.

Texasmark1 · Dec 13, 2019

I have an N JD dumper and the bars that run along the floor are ground driven with a selector for selecting the speed. The PTO runs the slinger. I don't have cows any longer but use it in the fall to dump my leaves out on my pastures. On the annual crop acreage, I incorporate them. Neat thing about the leaves is the fact that I use a DR leaf vacuum that compacts them 10:1 (so they say) making for nice material to distribute.

onefarmer · Dec 24, 2019

My Massey 85 has a hyd engage live pto if the lever is moved forward. Move it back and it's ground drive. I used it several times to unplug the AC66 combine when I was a kid.

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