All:
First post; long time member; longer time lurker.
I have learned a ton of highly useful (labor/time/and back-saving) info on this Forum. Thank you.
Recently I read many of the tips, including safety, on another thread on this site, and one really popped out.
I pull a heavy-duty bush mower with my 20HP 1610D Yanmar (built 1980; purchased 2001). Well one poster pointed out that he shuts his tractor motor off everytime he connects and disconnects anything to the PTO. This safety procedure never even occurred to me, so I weighed what would happen IF the PTO through wear slipped in-gear while the tractor was running and I was connecting/disconnecting the mower. I did NOT like any of the potential results.
So, not being the brightest bulb on the tractor (I don't count on my memory for these kinds of things), I took a piece of PVC pipe that fit over the PTO shaft, cut it to length, drilled two holes in it, slid it over the shaft, wired it on through the two shaft holes (easy to remove), and wrote on it, "Turn Off Motor."
I call this highly leveraging cost, time and health in my favor - installing the warning (and turning the motor off) vs. the potential physical hazard.
Hope this is helpful or at least interesting.
DougC in SW Missouri
First post; long time member; longer time lurker.
I have learned a ton of highly useful (labor/time/and back-saving) info on this Forum. Thank you.
Recently I read many of the tips, including safety, on another thread on this site, and one really popped out.
I pull a heavy-duty bush mower with my 20HP 1610D Yanmar (built 1980; purchased 2001). Well one poster pointed out that he shuts his tractor motor off everytime he connects and disconnects anything to the PTO. This safety procedure never even occurred to me, so I weighed what would happen IF the PTO through wear slipped in-gear while the tractor was running and I was connecting/disconnecting the mower. I did NOT like any of the potential results.
So, not being the brightest bulb on the tractor (I don't count on my memory for these kinds of things), I took a piece of PVC pipe that fit over the PTO shaft, cut it to length, drilled two holes in it, slid it over the shaft, wired it on through the two shaft holes (easy to remove), and wrote on it, "Turn Off Motor."
I call this highly leveraging cost, time and health in my favor - installing the warning (and turning the motor off) vs. the potential physical hazard.
Hope this is helpful or at least interesting.
DougC in SW Missouri
