Live PTO

With the PTO lever in the other position you have ground drive PTO, Every time you change gears in the tractor the PTO speed changes with it. When you depress the clutch pedal every thing stops just like a transmission drive PTO. Over the years these were used for powered trailers. At one time MF sold a rear end that was the exact ratio so that trailer speeds always matched the tractor. I know some people in my area used a truck rear end that matched very well.

I saw an old guy with one of these trailers, about 1 cord of wood on it. During spring thaw a single axle dual wheel truck loaded with cattle got stuck in mud, almost to top of rear wheels. That old guy hooked on with his little MF and trailer, pulled the truck out with ease first try. I was heading home to get my Farmall 560, when this guy happened along. I was not confident 560 was the answer. The truck driver was ready to unload the cattle, but he was saved that exercise.

By your description, I would guess that either someone has made a mistake it describing the action or more likely, you have a clutch pack problem.

BTW A great little workhorse tractor and the live PTO works excellent. The only time I had to rebuild my clutch was when I tried to run a 10foot MO-CO is heavy laid down hay. My fault not the tractor's

By your description, I would guess that either someone has made a mistake it describing the action or more likely, you have a clutch pack problem.

BTW A great little workhorse tractor and the live PTO works excellent. The only time I had to rebuild my clutch was when I tried to run a 10foot MO-CO is heavy laid down hay. My fault not the tractor's

I know little about MF, but I _think_ they have the 2-stage clutch.

If it actually would work as you are describing, that would _not_ be a live pto, so something got mis-communicated.

--->Paul

Robert