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G-Man: You're getting really cranky, and now it's no fun. I disagree with you. Plain and simple. I say just because JD retained the engenge/disengage lever on the live PTO gear train doesn't detract from the functionality, which is that the PTO shaft could be started and stopped on command without tractor clutch intervention. Now, have you ever wondered why the lever is even in the main case ? I think it might have been because that part of the main case was assembled before the line knew whether it was going to eventually be a transmission driven or engine driven pto ! I don't see any other reason for them to have even spent the money on installing those parts. But it's one of the first things to go in. Now this wouldn't be a first time that a line deemed it was cheaper to just include parts in assembly that may or may not be needed later on. It also kept the tractor "looking" familiar to the farmer-buyer, but I can't see any reason that they installed the lever in the first place, except that for non-engagement feature that could be purported to be useful for times when you didn't need the pto and could minimize wear and tear. First off, they're quotation marks and not parentheses. The quotation marks were probably not used on Power-Steering term, because some cars and trucks had already been to market with it. Like "Air-conditioning" They didn't own the term, like they did "PowR-Trol". Power Steering systems had been offered on many cars and trucks and as retro-fit by after marketters for a number iof years before Deere came out with the fully-integral, factory installed system on the 50/60/70 models. A lot of that literature talks about that Power-Steering system being Factory and integral. That was a big difference. I don't know that it was a first power steering system in the industry, but it was a first for a tractor in that it was factory installed and integral. I think that was a selling point. Duplex carburetion is a cute term, but it just means one barrel per cylinder, and some engines had already been marketed with multi-port carburetion. They didn't duplex the load side anyway. Now you say that I removed control over the system when I magically removed the lever. What control ? The ability to turn it off ? I can engage/disengage that PTO clutch lever any time I want. You said if I have the ability to turn it off, and can't re-engage that system with the engine running makes it not live in some way. I still don't get it. It's live. I sometimes choose to turn it off to save energy and wear, that's a choice I could make. Then you say I might ask the guy who kicked the PTO lever out of gear because he now doesn't have any PTO at all ? Are you going to tell me next that when I run out of fuel I lost the features on my tractor ? I think you're stretching. The whole of point of having live, engine driven versus transmission driven PTO was that you could operate the PTO independently from the tractor clutch. And you could. The rest is semantics. Kirk out.
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