L3400 trannys and PTOs

[simonmeridew]

I can tell you the way my L4400 gear drive shifts:
You NEED the clutch to shuttle between L and R, and you need to be dead stopped, otherwise you get a big time clash. If you're stopped and clutched, no clash. It just has to be a momentary stop though. The PTO operates only when the little PTO lever is pulled forward, and you don't have to clutch to engage it. Apparently it has some sort of a hydraulic clutch, as the manual puts it. You must disengage PTO in order to start the tractor, as well as have the shuttle R--L and H shifter in neutral. The main 1-2-3-4 tranny shifter can be left in gear when starting however. Same deal with the seat interlock. If you get up and are in gear or PTO is engaged the tractor will shut off, via a short delay, giving you time to pick the seat all the way up and over.
simonmeridew

 

[daTeacha]

Sometimes the safety features built into the machinery get in the way. I disengaged the feature on my small Cadet that prevents mowing in reverse. We need to do a lot of cutting and backing the way the place is laid out and it just seemed hard on the blade clutch to continually have to restart the mower.

I can see the reason for the seat interlock with the transmision, but I can also see where it could be really annoying with the PTO -- running a generator or something. Is that the reason for the delay? Is there some way to keep the PTO spinning while not on the seat?

 

[rk246]

I read in the manual the other day that if you are running the PTO while you are off the machine to put the seat all the way forward, toward the wheel? I am not sure it that does something to over ride the safety or ?