PTO SHaft Help

Cheap is NOT necessarily SAFE !!! Try the local co-op,TSC,farm suplly place for the correct PTO shaft,please. You may be able to trade or barter yours for the correct one. jay

It won't be square. It should be rectangular, so that the universal joints always line up. You have several options.

1. get a new shaft.
2. replace the solid rectangular section with a longer section (usually they are held into the universal joint with a roll pin)
3. Find another bit off the hollow section, and weld an extension on.. I have seen this done several times with this style of PTO shaft, and have never seen one fail. I would recommend you get a competent welder to do it though.

The minimum recommended insertion is 3-4 inches, so you'll be looking at adding 8inches on.

I'll second jb's suggestion. A PTO shaft needs a telescoping guard that is free to stop while the power shaft is rotating. The guard also needs to cover the U-joints. These requirements grew out of many gruesome accidents involving all or parts of people wrapped around the shafts.

Yes. Speaking from direct personal experience, a person wrapped around a PTO shaft is not a pleasant sight. Not a whole lot for an EMT to do at that point, other than turn off the tractor & wait for the coronor.

Go to a agri supply store and look at their replacement parts for PTO shafts. They have yokes, outer tube and inner shafts in all kinds of shapes and sizes, usually sold by the foot. Look at the yokes and tubes there, see how they go together.......the inner portion (solid usually shaft) inserts into a like hole in a yoke, and is then welded in place. Same for the outer tube that inner shaft inserts into........same principal. Get the pieces you need , and if your able to weld, cut apart your old then just stick the new stuff together. If you can't weld your stuck having to take it to a welding shop or perhaps someone you know that can weld. They are not hard to redo, but its not a place to have shoddy welds on. Replacing what you need on the shaft you already have should be a lot cheaper than buying new.

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