tiller

[GioG]

Hello everyone. So lately I've being thinking of buying a rototiller for my tractor and I've being searching a lot of options. I looked a few different American brands, including couple of Italian brands like....Caroni and Cosmo. My problem is that all of them or almost all of them need a drive shaft customized (cut to size) from tractor PTO to tiller gearbox. I've seeing video and how easy they make the process of doing that, but quite honestly I don't feel confident in doing any of that,....(measuring and cutting). If you screw-up one of those two...you're going to throw the drive shaft in the trashcan. So I was wondering where to go to have the driveshaft customized. Thank you.
P.S. 2023 Massey Ferguson 1825E compact utility tractor.

 

[oldnslo]

Any automotive drive line shop can cut a PTO shaft. Decent implement dealer should have the capability also.

 

[GioG]

Any automotive drive line shop can cut a PTO shaft. Decent implement dealer should have the capability also.

Thank you.

 

[jyoutz]

Cutting is easy. Determining the correct length this the important part.

 

[GioG]

Cutting is easy. Determining the correct length this the important part.

I agree cutting is easy to do, the problem is....what about if I mess-up the measuring? That's what I'm not comfortable doing, if I mess up the measuring....I'll mess-up the cutting as well.

 

[RjCorazza]

We all have our limits of comfortability, but honestly measuring and cutting a pto shaft is not that difficult. There are plenty of videos that describe the process.

 

[joecdeere]

Tractor and tiller really need to be together to measure

 

[Williy]

Hook up your tiller have the pto shaft in 2 pieces attach to
tractor pto hold together on my unit when I did this I had
a 9 inch over lap and a 5 inch space before it was completly compressed together so I know they would not come apart when operating our tiller and also space to back and forth
movement so not to damage gear box
You can check out youtube as they have videos of how to

willy

 

[Yander]

Plenty of you tube videos explaining how to do this. I've done several off of that

 

[Runner]

If you have a quick hitch, you may not even need to cut it due to the extra length required for the drive shaft. The one for my stump grinder worked right out of the box.