Just Bought PTO REVERSER

[Ductape]

What the heck is the advantage of making one run backwards from everyone else's?

Best i can figure........ perhaps Kubota thought it would be better to force every customer to buy every impliment from them???

 

[Reg]

Best i can figure........ perhaps Kubota thought it would be better to force every customer to buy every impliment from them???

Which was how Honda got "everyone" to shift on the left foot and brake on the right foot - about 45 years ago.
Then the gummint stepped in with "What good idea, coz car drivers brake with their right foot, don't they ?".
Not that other tasks/skills don't have to be ported, but the left and right foot thing should be standardized for poorly coordinated m/cyclists.
Goodness knows it must be HARD enough just to balance those things.
Have YOU listened to the CPSC lately ?

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[MessickFarmEqu]

Best i can figure........ perhaps Kubota thought it would be better to force every customer to buy every impliment from them???

are you sure its not a gray market tractor? I don't recall that there are any Kubota models with reverse PTO's that belong in the USA.

 

[sugarmaple]

Apart from being two cylinders and small, the biggest rap on the B-6000 was the backward running pto. I have had two friends who bought these new in the 70's, one still has his, and they both were purchased from legitimate dealers. Other brands, Satoh comes to mind, had the same issue. The pto's were reversed with the 6100/7100 series machines.

 

[daTeacha]

My old B7100, which may have been gray market based on the fact that the dealer thought the non-orange paint color was odd, had a PTO that powered my Huskee brand bush hog just fine, same as my DX29 does. If memory serves that PTO spun CW when viewed from the back of the tractor. I never really paid much attention to which way it spun.

For that matter, I suppose it really doesn't make much difference which way a bush hog spins, though, does it? The "blades" are so dull on most of them they would work about the same in either direction.

 

[KubotaSam]

My 1977 B7100 has the standard rotation of the pto shaft. I run a Woods BH750 with a pto driven hydraulic pump. This setup would not work if my tractor had the counter rotating pto. It is my understanding that the B6000 was built for use in Japan and the reverse rotation of the pto was to drive the rototiller in a reverse rotation to fully till the soil in the rice field.