Least favourite implements to attach

[Lena]

post hole digger. trying to get it to stand up while hooking it up can be very aggravating !

 

[Skypuppy]

PHD (post hole digger) is my #2 least favorite. If the mmm is #1 with 100 points, the PHD is #2 with 99 points.

 

[grsthegreat]

I built a chepo 2x4 stand for my PHD. Made all the difference in ease of installation

 

[Gregster613]

My boom arm mower is the worst;
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That's sure a tight squeeze LouNy!!

 

[Gregster613]

With a quick hitch and a hydraulic top link my rear implements are relatively easy. I've modified all of my 3ph implements to be quick hitch compatible.

The pain is the front mount snow blower. All the pto connections are in tight places and require finger strength that is getting reduced as I grow older. Installing everything when it's cold outside doesn't help either.

Seems to me that designing a pto collar pliars is a future project.

Please post numerous photos when you design those pto collar pliers!! That's surely one thing that I'd like to copy/have!! It's extremely hard to hold that collar back while holding up/pushing on the rest of the shaft. That will be a "Great" extra tool to have on hand!

 

[LouNY]

That's sure a tight squeeze LouNy!!

Especially when your an over weight 74 year old, the pto shaft has to be quite short but I'll get it started on then back in the rest of the way. It may take two or three moves till I have enough shat to get it lined up and then one more little move to be able to attach it, then back in for the lift arms.

 

[bigtiller]

Please post numerous photos when you design those pto collar pliers!! That's surely one thing that I'd like to copy/have!! It's extremely hard to hold that collar back while holding up/pushing on the rest of the shaft. That will be a "Great" extra tool to have on hand!

Here is mine. It is a 1x4 with half of a hole cut in the end with a 2½" hole saw.

 

[Texasmark]

Of all the implements I attach to my tractor, this one is absolutely my least favourite! Getting in there to attach PTO shaft and adjust the top-link is not easy, with the limited space and projecting "things" - like top-link sliding tommy bar, mounting plate for the spray valves, windscreen-washer bottle mounting plate, and of course the PTO guard where the shaft emerges from the tractor makes for some contortionist skills in getting it hooked up.

In comparison, the box blade is a doddle, also chipper and slasher, and the air-blast sprayer's not too bad either. I'm guessing the spray tank manufacturers elected to keep the heavy unit (600 litre capacity) as far forward as possible for weight reasons, also to keep the 6 metre spray boom from being too far back behind the tractor.

That said, it's a nicely made spray unit, and the saving grace is that I don't need to use it very often.

The handle in the foreground belongs to the pallet jack, as all my implements are stored in the shed on the concrete floor, and having them all on pallets is so handy.

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They all are for me if my tractor doesn't have extending lift arm tips or Pat's quick hitches......but all my tractors have one or the other and it DOES matter.

 

[Texasmark]

Especially when your an over weight 74 year old, the pto shaft has to be quite short but I'll get it started on then back in the rest of the way. It may take two or three moves till I have enough shat to get it lined up and then one more little move to be able to attach it, then back in for the lift arms.

I find it, let's say interesting, how different mfgrs. treat their PTO shaft when the engine is off. Most of my Independent systems have the shaft locked so hooking up a bailer is a king sized PIA especially when the drive shaft on the round baler is a HD unit (heavy), you are 84 and working alone, and especially when the CV joint is on the tractor end.

But I recently acquired a couple of '90 era CIH tractors with Ind. PTO and the shaft turns about a quarter turn with the engine off.....just enough to get the cogs and slots lined up on my baler.....Yeaaaaaaaa!