Well, yeah, that was what I thought. But, I know the guy personally that has owned this tractor for 10 years. He swears up and down that it absolutley has a two-stage clutch. He does a lot of brush-hogging with it - and states that he pushes the clutch half-way down to shift gears (and PTO keeps going) and pushes clutch all the way down to stop the PTO. It's a major point since I'd told him I wouldn't buy unless it's got live power.
This guy is not a tractor expert but is a pretty smart guy around mechancal stuff. I'm 1000 miles away and taking his word for it - for now. And, as I said - I'm not a Ford person. I spend most of my life working on Deere, Case, and IH. I own one Ford - it's a 1964 4000 - but mine has no PTO and also have the Sherman aux. trans.
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Today's Featured Article - Recollections of a John Deere GP - by Charlie Cook. I grew up on my dad's 280 acre general farm in Western Michigan. Dad's only tractor when I was very young was the old GP. My first recollection of this tractor was when dad allowed my brother and myself to ride on the tractor with him driving. One of us would sit on the left fender (away from the clutch) and other would sit on the gas tank and hold onto the crankcase breather pipe.
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