Converting a 2-pt hitch tiller to 3-pt?

   / Converting a 2-pt hitch tiller to 3-pt? #11  
Actually, you don't really even need a splined end on the pto shaft at the gearbox input. In fact, you may NOT want one. My Japanese tiller doesn't have a slip clutch or a shear pin. You could simply get a u-joint pto shaft end that fits snugly over the gearbox input shaft. If you can't find one the right size, get one for a smaller shaft and have a machine shop turn it on a lathe to get the right diameter. Then drill a cross hole in the gearbox input shaft and the pto shaft for a shear pin. That way you get the tiller working, and provide some mechanical protection for the tiller and tractor.
 
   / Converting a 2-pt hitch tiller to 3-pt? #12  
That sounds like a very good solution to the problem Greg. And, it would be a good means of locking on the tiller end of the drive shaft so that it doesn't slip off when lifting the tiller up and down.

Bill
 
   / Converting a 2-pt hitch tiller to 3-pt? #13  
Don't worry so much about the direction of rotation. Tillers will work if they are rotating with or against the direction of travel. I know that the better home owner grade tillers are reverse cut (against the direction of travel). Troy-Built would be one example. I believe the Yanmar tillers are not a reverse cut.

If you need to adapt the pto consider splitting the shaft apart and just replacing the section that doesn't match up.
 

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