PTO Safety COver

[Larry_Sheehan]

The plastic cover on my PTO drive shaft has cracked.
The steel is fine, I'm just having trouble finding a reasonably proced replacement cover.

Any hiints?

 

[Soundguy]

TSC and the JD dealer have some plastic sheats for certain models..

Soundguy

 

[Billy_S]

On my rotary mower, the PTO shaft cover broke the first time I used it. Or, at least half of it did. I guess I am not smart enough to figure out how to take the other half off to replace it. The KK manual says nothing about it.

 

[Soundguy]

There are a few different types of shafts out there... Some have plastic screw heads that 'cam' when you turn them so that the outter shaft unlocks from the shroud. Some you line up the white tabs with open slots, and then push the shroud back.. etc. In many cases there are a few vauge directions.. or arrows molded into the shaft showing you what you need to do... ( the eurocardan ones are speeeecial... )

Soundguy

 

[AndyMA]

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The steel is fine, I'm just having trouble finding a reasonably proced replacement cover.

Any hiints? )</font>

Isn't that what high quality duct tape is for?

Andy

 

[AndyMA]

Just wait until you see the price of a replacement cover. If they are only cracked, I wasn't kidding about duct tape. I also have to say that I grew up before all PTO's were covered and I still run some uncovered.

Andy

 

[Larry_Sheehan]

I called KK and they have a replacement for 75.00
Duct tape is looking better all the time.

 

[Billy_S]

Mein Gott, $75 for a cover? I guess mine will just stay uncovered.

Maybe, in my rookieness, I am missing the point of a PTO shaft cover anyway. Sure, it looks mean, spinning, uncovered, but it is a long way away from where I am sitting on the tractor.

 

[firemanpat2910]

one good reason to have the cover is to keep vines and such from wrapping around the spinning shaft. Not only are they a pain to get off but last weekend I had a vine snag on the shaft that had a 2 foot long whipping "tail". was actualy hitting the fenders on my tractor. This was on my OLD JD cutter that we use for the rough stuff. On the Brown 72" with the sheild we hardly ever get anything wrapped around it. A chunk of bailing wire caught whipped around a few hundred times and then flung at you would probably hurt. I think Ill make a sheild for old green. 2 peices of pvc slipped inside each other might work,I have to check the scrap pile and see what I can come up with.

 

[Highbeam]

The PTO shaft for my brush mower is also a failure. The little plastic screws that hold each half to the yoke end are gone so the cover just floats there somewhere on the shaft. I think the purpose is so that the cover will slip on the shaft instead of winding up the collar of your shirt or your pants cuff or something. I stay a long ways from that spinning shaft and wouldn't trust a cover even if it was working.

I will not be spending 75$ to repair the shaft cover. If it disappears then that is fine.

 

[RichNJKubota]

I just left $150 at the local JD dealer for new PTO shaft covers for my old haybine. I figure it's cheap for safety reasons. The haybine still has a few years of life left in it.

Rich
NJ

 

[3RRL]

Mein Gott, $75 for a cover? I guess mine will just stay uncovered.

Maybe, in my rookieness, I am missing the point of a PTO shaft cover anyway. Sure, it looks mean, spinning, uncovered, but it is a long way away from where I am sitting on the tractor.

Billy,
See what the other guys said about getting stuff wrapped up. The protection is not just for you. Think of the one time some kid or anyone else is around it when you're in the tractor. Also, there are many incidents where a guy gets off his tractor to "adjust" something on the implement and gets wrapped up. Murphy's Law...
Do a search in the safety forum. There was a thread with a link to farm PTO accidents....grissley gorey accidents showing farmers wrapped up onto the PTO shaft like some kind of pagan shis ka bob. I can't even stand the thought of it....
Anyone remember that thread?

 

[scott_vt]

Billy,
See what the other guys said about getting stuff wrapped up. The protection is not just for you. Think of the one time some kid or anyone else is around it when you're in the tractor. Also, there are many incidents where a guy gets off his tractor to "adjust" something on the implement and gets wrapped up. Murphy's Law...
Do a search in the safety forum. There was a thread with a link to farm PTO accidents....grissley gorey accidents showing farmers wrapped up onto the PTO shaft like some kind of pagan shis ka bob. I can't even stand the thought of it....
Anyone remember that thread?

Hi Rob,
Actually I dont want to remember But I get your drift on the safety end of things !!!

 

[John47]

Charlie Daniels, the Country singer came pretty close to losing his arm many years back on a PTO while operating a post hole digger.