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Hi

I have a raised PTO for a Major I may be interested in selling since we already have one on each of our New Majors. I am open to offers pending the price of shipping. I live in Ontario Canada, so make me an offer, and let me know where you are located. Thanks.

I am interested

Looks like you have a Super Major.
The Super Major (SM) came in two versions, the SM and the New Performance Super Major (NPSM).
Pascal have a Wiki page explaining the difference.
The SM has a gear ratio of 1:1.333 and NPSM a gear ratio of 1:1.

Can you please check which one you have?
Do you also have the long shaft?
What is the condition of the raised PTO?

Best regards Kjetil

WHERE ARE YOUR PTO GUARDS???
Guards are provided for a purpose - your protection!!
Jerry
Bath
UK

Jerry Coles wrote:WHERE ARE YOUR PTO GUARDS???
Guards are provided for a purpose - your protection!!
Jerry
Bath
UK

Hi Jerry
This is Canada the laws on guards are a little different over here not like the U.K where youd get strung up for not having them. I guess they think we are smart enough not to get caught in them.
on the seriouse side yes they should be there and they do save limbs and lives. I work in the farm machinery trade as a Mechanic and this is common to see no gaurds roll bars ect. we seem to get more guys killed in rollovers or squashed by big bales coming down loader booms on tractors with no cabs or roll bars on. cant remember the last time I heard of a P.T.O shaft accident. so there are some lucky guys around.
Regards Robert

The reason the guards are off is because they are loose and make an awful noise and are a pain to get the PTO on and off. I am always very cautious around it. If I happen to plug the blower or break a shear pin I not only shut the PTO off, but the tractor as well. Thanks for your concern guys.

Common sense has got to play a part here, somewhere, guys. The blower itself can eat you for lunch in a heartbeat and there's no guard that you can put on it. You've got to look out for yourself, be safe, and don't always count on guards to save you.

Don't let the bureacrats hear you say "common sense" in this PC day and age. I'm not a fan of PTO guards, especially the ones that make it near impossible to grease universal joints Machinery is only as dangerous as the operator thats using it.As for rotating PTO shafts on equipment on tractors, I find the "AIS"*method works quite good.
(* AIS..."arse in seat") TSG.

The Swanndri Guy wrote:I find the "AIS"*method works quite good.

Yes it does. If your a** ain't in the seat, shut the tractor off. Its a good way to keep all of your appendages.

Exactly!! If the tractor is moving and/or PTO is being used,then AIS.Would be reasonably hard to get injured or killed with "AIS", with or without PTO guards.Make it foolproof, and a fool wil prove you wrong .TSG.

If your views represents the farmers safety view, no wonder why the farmers are on top 10 list of accidents

Kjetil wrote:If your views represents the farmers safety view, no wonder why the farmers are on top 10 list of accidents

The problem with being a farmer is that most of the time you are in a hurry trying to do the work of three men because you cannot afford qualified help, and you are tired and not thinking real clear all the time from doing so. That's why we sold the farm. Had a drunken hired man get in a PTO shaft back in the 70's. Tore his pants off, cut his leg, and banged him up some. Took him to the Doctor who said he had enough pain killier in him already and stitched him up without anything for pain. Had another hired man who would grab a v belt and wrap his fingers around it to start an electric motor with a bad capacitor on a hay convair. The rest of us always did it with our shoe, or with our hand flat. He ran his fingers though the belt pulley and lost his pinky. Another bright bulb in the box full of hired help we had though the years.

I've seen a few around here that try to step over a PTO to save a few steps. One neighboring farm hand was killed doing so. I always took the long safe way myself and did not care if it took more time. No one ever told me I was wrong. My dad alway said to never step over a PTO and his advice was good. Dandy Dave!

Kjetil wrote:If your views represents the farmers safety view, no wonder why the farmers are on top 10 list of accidents

My view is only my opinion. My point is that you have to be safe around farm equipment, or any other moving equipment. If you depend on guards and safety devices instead of common sense, you are still going to get hurt or killed.

Sorry to get so far off topic, Pepper Farms.

Do you know if the raised PTO, that you have for sale, has a 1:1 or a 1.33:1 gear ratio?

The Swanndri Guy wrote:Make it foolproof, and a fool wil prove you wrong .

One of the guys that I work for said,"If we make it fool proof, no one here will be able to run it"

It is from a '59 Power Major. It has a 33 spline gear on the long shaft that drives the pump. The one in the picture on my Major is not the exact one I am selling. It was also from a Power Major though, but I swapped the pump gear from the old PTO shaft to the raised PTO shaft.

Is this raised PTO still available. I am deffinately interested. I am located in Sherwood Park Alberta.