PTO handle on the Left?

Ultradog MN

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The thread below about the pto handle and what is right or left on a tractor got me thinking.
I seem to remember a post, not long after I first came here where a fellow swore up and down the pto lever on His N was on the right.
Everyone thought he was nuts and the conversation roiled around what are the right and left sides of a tractor.
Finally, maybe he got a photo of it posted or someone else tried it and the handle could indeed be on the right.
Someone, who knows why, had swapped the left and right covers.
The pto engaged normally and worked as it should.
I don't have an N but it would be fun if someone here could try swapping theirs - maybe on a junk rear end? and verify if my memory is correct.
 
Wife has a 1950 Ferguson TO-20 with a handle on the left and the right. That other handle being the Howard trans. One of these weeks, I will get the Everett installed in it also. Uh. . . . July? September. Maybe.
 
Where in OR are you?
When I was 16 I spent most of a summer working for a berry farmer in Oregon City. One of my tasks was tilling between the rows of berries. He had a Fergie with the Howard trans and Rotovator on it. It was a later model - 35?
Tilling was the most boring job I have ever done in my life. The tractor went so slowly I could get off the tractor, pick a handful of raspberries or boysenberries and get back on.
All reminiscing aside tho, I do believe you could switch the pto handle to the right on an N.
 
The internal shift rail is in the center on top of the PTO housing that mounts to the rear of the transmission in the N series so I don't see any reason why the handle couldn't be installed on either side.

Mark
 
Oregon City.
That place has changed so much, I can't even recognize it anymore from the 70's.

I am sitting on the edge of Dixie mountain just down the road from the Doppler radar station. (?)
Basically the top of Cornelius Pass, which goes no where near the town of Cornelius. That road has now become a state road, instead of a county road, that just took over the maintenance on it. Has also been recently designated Oregon Route 127
Wanna get closer? North of Hillsboro, above Hwy26. Just about to Hwy 30 geographically and still with a Hillsboro address instead of North Plains, which is actually closer to me.

Wanna get closer? Top of Logie trail. That fun road with a cliff face on one side and a drop off on the other, 3 hair pin curves and was a wagon trail back in the day. The county widened a bit and paved over. It climbs 1100 feet in 1.5 miles.
Closer? On the edge of BLM Section 15. They are my neighbor on two sides and Weyerhauser is on the other two sides.

Closest human Nay-burr is about 1/4 mile down the road. Next one is the opposite direction is about 1/2 mile.
I recently came to like the show Little People, Big World in which Roloff is selling off a 13 acre parcel for $4M. (I figure I am about 8 miles down the road from him) His parcel being in the middle of a 106(?) acre section that the rest of the family owns. Yep. I wonder what 20 acres with no neighbors is worth? I told this to the wife and her response was most accurately. Move where?
Guess I am stuck for awhile.
 
Sounds like a safe place to be. I probably couldn't find it based on your description but I'll bet the property tax man knows were you are :)
We moved there in 68 then came back a year later. Grandpa died and gave the farm to Dad.
I've been out your way at least a dozen times since then. Enlisted in the Navy there. Have a lot of relatives out there.
Portland, Beaverton, West Lynn, Bend, Medford, Vanport, etc.
A few years ago the Mrs and I took Amtrack out to Portland then a rental car up to Sisters, OR to visit her sis.
On the way back we detoured over to Oregon City. Just to look.
Very different world now as you say.
I-5 didnt exist then. The farm where I worked is long gone. Lost in a sea of suburbia.
One land mark that's still there is the municipal elevator.
I snapped a photo of her there.

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tax man? Oh those things. 20 acres of Forest taxes with a double wide band aid can on it. Taxes for the year are about $1500.
I play disabled vet (walking wounded) and get a discount down to around $1200 a year. State has no sales tax and the SS income puts me in the 10% tax bracket. Now if I could learn to not poke the IRA acct, I would be in that 10% bracket.
The tress got harvested about 2 or 3 years ago and the bills paid off. 1 credit card just to keep the credit score alive.
That elevator might be around awhile longer.

The Portland Tram.

Seattle has the Space Needle and Portland had to get a tram for a monumental waste. It goes from the bottom of the hill up to OHSU at the top. $5 to ride it and stare at nothing. The neighbors below voiced displeasure and tram cars got the lower 1/2 of the windows blocked off to stay off prying eyes.
The Space Needle is self sufficient. The Tram costs $5M a year to operate above the ticket revenue.
But, Hey. This is Portland, trying to be a big city. Now people are leaving supposedly.

I like the falls at Oregon city in January after a hard rain and they disappear. Might be a fun boat ride.
 
My dad lost his right arm in a farm accident when he was four. When he bought a Farmall 706 we moved the PTO lever to the left side of the seat and lengthened the two hydraulic levers on the right side. Also added a spinner knob to the steering wheel.

One time dad was getting on his combine when he fell off the top step. There wasn't any hand rails or handles on the left side of the steps/ladder for him to grab. I couldn't reach him from the ground and just had to stand there and watch him fall backwards to the ground.(Was a good five or six feet) After that I added a rail and handles to the left side.

My guess would be if someone lost their left arm in an accident. They might move the PTO lever to the right side.
 

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