ALWAYS check security of pto connection. if in doubt call someone.

[Dmacleo]

2021 GC1725M TLB.
220 hrs on it.
guy hooks up the 2000 rpm mid mount mower. him and 2 others tug on COLLAR (important...I warned them about this) to make sure pto seated.
never tug on the collar.
eng at 2500 rpm the 2000 rpm mid pto turned on and almost instantly went thru both the filter boss and cracked (see edit 3) the front of transaxle.
its under the auspices of dealer and insurance company now.

NEVER tug on the fking collar to check pto seat.
tug the collar you loosen your lock.
oh well, not my tractor. I put my MMM deck on in 5 minutes and started mowing some 4ft high stuff he had. he loans me backhoe (until now...since its dead) and gives me fruit/vegatables so it evens out.
once dealer/insurance comp figure **** out I'll lift rear with the 1532 and pull mmm deck out with my gc2400, will then use 1532 to push onto trailer and haul to dealer.
but ain't no way anyone is starting it.

edit: thought about retailrems filter repair kit but....nope....
edit 2: changed from 120 hrs to 220 (typo) hours. personally done all its service since the first 50hr service.

edit 3 : the front case is NOT cracked. was fluid toss I saw. right now ins company and dealer bickering over a 900$ repair. whatever.

 

[Snobdds]

Damn that was hard to read...

 

[Dmacleo]

Damn that was hard to read...

harder to see. trust me. thought maybe filter kit from retailrems would fix.
nope.

 

[hube2]

Wow, expensive lesson, but seems common sense to me not to pull on the thing you need to pull on the disconnect the shaft.

 

[Dmacleo]

Wow, expensive lesson, but seems common sense to me not to pull on the thing you need to pull on the disconnect the shaft.

yeah prob is when you pull with fingers on collar you can easily get false positive.
one side of collar yanked, other side free, even when not in detent it can feel like it is due to offset in shaft balls. place your hands back beyond collar...better (and true) feeling.
is somewhat hard on mid mount shaft as you are pretty much (with the mower) working one handed. but it can be done. this time of year I do it weekly.

 

[GeneV]

2021 GC1725M TLB.
220 hrs on it.
guy hooks up the 2000 rpm mid mount mower. him and 2 others tug on COLLAR (important...I warned them about this) to make sure pto seated.
never tug on the collar.
eng at 2500 rpm the 2000 rpm mid pto turned on and almost instantly went thru both the filter boss and cracked (see edit 3) the front of transaxle.
its under the auspices of dealer and insurance company now.

NEVER tug on the fking collar to check pto seat.
tug the collar you loosen your lock.
oh well, not my tractor. I put my MMM deck on in 5 minutes and started mowing some 4ft high stuff he had. he loans me backhoe (until now...since its dead) and gives me fruit/vegatables so it evens out.
once dealer/insurance comp figure **** out I'll lift rear with the 1532 and pull mmm deck out with my gc2400, will then use 1532 to push onto trailer and haul to dealer.
but ain't no way anyone is starting it.

edit: thought about retailrems filter repair kit but....nope....
edit 2: changed from 120 hrs to 220 (typo) hours. personally done all its service since the first 50hr service.

edit 3 : the front case is NOT cracked. was fluid toss I saw. right now ins company and dealer bickering over a 900$ repair. whatever.

Ooh, sux to be him!

 

[Dmacleo]

just glad its down to a 900$ repair bill being fought by people that AIN"T ME!!
I'll use another tractor and shove it onto a trailer if I have to but....whats going on now... AIN"T me
although from the looks of things I am gonna be involved. whatever. I'll deal with it.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Shooo daggonitt but tha eggplant over there!

 

[CobyRupert]

I’ve only screwed up putting a pto shaft on once (knock on wood). Somehow the little balls in the PTO connector weren’t seated in the indents on the spline. It was on a 7’ rotary mower.

When the shaft came off it was a LONG minute (or two, felt like an hour) before the mower spun down and the shaft stopped flailing.

I pull on the PTO shaft (not a collar that releases it) every time after connecting them to see they’re seated on the spline.

 

[Dmacleo]

yeah thats the key, remove hands from collar pull the shaft with 2 hands.
sadly with a mid mount mower 2k rpm shaft (on the massey GC series) its way to easy to just leave your hands where they were for the pto mount.
can be easy to get into a habit then, bad habit.

 

[loulblades]

Stupid gets rewarded.

Here was my fix when I did something similarly stupid.

GC2300 broken hydraulic oil filter flange

Stupid is as stupid does. I removed the belly mower from my tractor and attached the tiller for some garden work. I don't normally remove the short shaft from the mid pto unless I am doing something serious since it is not really in the way. So I get in position, move the mid pto to inactive...

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[steve tym]

Thanks for this thread. I've never had a mishap, but I'm gonna be a lot more certain the pto shaft is solid before moving on

 

[Dmacleo]

Stupid gets rewarded.

Here was my fix when I did something similarly stupid.

GC2300 broken hydraulic oil filter flange

Stupid is as stupid does. I removed the belly mower from my tractor and attached the tiller for some garden work. I don't normally remove the short shaft from the mid pto unless I am doing something serious since it is not really in the way. So I get in position, move the mid pto to inactive...

www.tractorbynet.com

I don't normally remove the short shaft from the mid pto

how's that work?
you just leave the pto collar hooked up and pull away from deck? would think hooking back up would have been hard, my 2326 MMM has keyed pto shaft on it.
just curious.

 

[loulblades]

Dmacleo,

I had made ramps to back over the mower which leaves the collar on the pto.
I then remove the collar if my brain is functioning.
In this situation I left the collar on and didn't switch to the rear pto to till the garden. When I engaged the pto...well the rest is obvious.

I worked with an old cement finisher many moons ago and he would always say "if your gonna be dumb, may as be damn dumb".



Lou