Posted by Goose on August 29, 2010 at 10:38:57 from (67.63.68.13):
Others on this forum have owned up to dumb stuff they've done, so I'll add my recent.
I hadn't been to my shop for a couple of weeks because of a two week go-around with a kidney stone that was finally blasted with ultrasound.
So yesterday's first objective was to get rid of some weeds and grass that had grown during my hiatus.
I climbed onto my D19 with the 3pt shredder attached, fired it up, put the tractor in gear with the two-way lever in neutral, shifted the PTO into gear, let out the clutch, and--nothing happened.
I sat there for several minutes trying to figure out what would keep the PTO from working when it dawned on me. One of the last things I did a couple of weeks ago was pull the PTO shaft off the tractor to see how another knuckle fit on the tractor, and then never put the PTO shaft back on the tractor.
Shredder runs a whole lot better with the PTO shaft attached to the tractor.
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