PTO seat safety switch override?

[Dale_Alan]

I know it's there for safety but I need the PTO to run with me out of the seat and on the ground using the PTO to run my sprayer. You just can't unplug it because it cuts off the engine. I'm sure a jumper of some kind would work, it looks like it has three connections.
Dale

 

[RonR]

On my Bx2200, if you flip the seat forward, have the HST in neutral, then you can engage the rear pto and the engine will stay running.

From past discussions, some of the BX's have and some don't have the same switch configuration. I never could decipher which years/models have which.

ron

 

[midlf]

Same on the BX2230 I just had delivered. Flip the seat forward.

 

[RayH]

If its the same as my 3130, you have to flip the seat all the way forward. You can engage the PTO while sitting and just hold some pressure on ithe seat by hand while you remove yourself from it. Once you are off of it, flip the seat forward and the tractor will remain running.

 

[notamustang]

Never tried flipping it forward, Have to check that out. What I learned from one of the shop guys is slap the seat belt over the seat and push down a little and your good to go.

 

[_RaT_]

For Kubotas L30 series, you simply start the tractor. Once that is done, from the side of the tractor (not in the seat), lift it forward like you would to keep the rain off it, engage the PTO and your done. The PTO runs without you in the seat. Kubota recognized that some folks may utilize the PTO without a person being on the tractor be it a generator, water pump, hydraulic pump for a log splitter etc. Other models may do the same. If not, its a very simple electrical jumper to keep the connection alive.

 

[KubotaSteve]

On my B7800, the manual states to lift the seat up like others have said, however you have to do it quickly. I don't have any implements that I need this to work on, but I tried it just out of curiousity and it worked like a champ.

 

[MadDog]

The seat forward override is definitely needed when you're using a PTO-driven chipper/shredder, woodsplitter (probably a logging winch, too -but I don't have one of those) or anything else where you operate the attachment from behind the tractor.

But, unless you have a death wish, you don't want to use it with a PHD and probably not with any other ground engaging attachment. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Henro]

<font color="blue">But, unless you have a death wish, you don't want to use it with a PHD and probably not with any other ground engaging attachment. </font>

MadDog,

I don't see the connection. My B2910 doesn't have a seat switch. As a matter of fact, if the PTO is offl and the HST pedal is centered, the only interlock I can think of is the clutch pedal, which must be depressed to start the engine.

After that...while I would never do it, I could get off the tractor with the PHD turning and the engine would happily keep it turning.

I guess what I am trying to say is that common sense and good operating practices are the key to keeping one safe...

Frankly, I can see me, if I had some kind of seat interlock that required a quick move from the down to up postion to keep the tractor running, jumping off the tractor in a hurry to get that seat up before the tractor engine quit running...and getting hurt in the process.

Do these tractors with seat interlocks have some kind of time delay built in, that gives the operator ample time to get off the tractor at his normal speed, before tipping the seat up?

I wonder why these tractor builders don't offer a tilt switch that would trip if the tractor tops over, cutting off the fuel? The Surplus center offered one, that required manual reset if turned sideways...I even wonder if the seat interlock would do anything if the tractor went on its side with the operator belted in...

Gee...I'm full (or is that fool /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif ) of questions today! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[RonR]

Henro,

No time on mine. If you get off the seat with it in gear or the PTO engaged, the engine will DIE!

You'd have to be quick to keep it going on mine.

ron