Power Take Off Remover, Installer

Power Take Off Remover Installer POWER TAKE OFFS PTO S As he grew older Tony Bunniss grew tired of trying to disconnect the pto from his Deere 420 Garden Tractor “When I was young I had no problem pushing the ring back and collapsing the spring on the pto which allows the steel balls to move out of the groove on the engine shaft so that the implement shaft could be slid off ” he says “But over time it got harder for me to collapse the spring In fact it became almost impossible and I couldn’t get down and lay alongside the mower at all ” His solution was to build a device that improved his grip He used miscellaneous metal shoulder bolts springs bolts and nuts he found in his shop Before making his new device taking the pto off - or putting it on - could take Bunniss over half an hour Now he can do so in a matter of minutes His device is green on one side and yellow on the other because the handles are detachable and only used when removing the driveshaft They aren’t needed to install the shaft but only to install the tool by pinching it until the notched locks are engaged After that point the spring gets compressed and dislodged while it’s pushed on “I also machined a small dimple into both sides of the knuckles to keep the set screw in place when I removed the shaft ” says Bunniss To remove the pto shaft Bunniss installs the handles based on their color-coding He then puts the tool on the knuckle ensuring that the set screw is in the dimple and pushes the handles forward until the notched bar locks the compressed spring and slides the knuckle off the pto shaft He’s the first to admit it’s an elaborate system for a relatively simple problem “I know this is equivalent to swatting a fly with a baseball bat but with age I have to do things a lot different from when I was young ” As with all his inventions Bunniss is happy to share his experience with anyone interested You can contact him directly for more details and access to blueprints for building your own pto remover and installer Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Tony Bunniss Webster Minn glennlee1964@gofast am

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