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<blockquote data-quote="CattleAnnie" data-source="post: 189466" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>Not pto shaft, but if PTO powered and tired combined make for acts of idiocy...then guilty as charged.</p><p></p><p>Was mowing hay with the haybine. Using a wore out old haybine that kept jamming the rollers seemed every time I got into heavy alsike or alfalfa stands...and there was quite a lot of heavy stands that year.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, another long day on tractor in heat during day number gadzillion of haying season, was getting tired, I guess. Darn haybine jammed up again, and ancient JD tractor (been around since Christ was a cowboy) didn't have the PTO control lever labelled for engage or disengage...paint probably wore off twenty years ago.</p><p></p><p>So tired dumb me, looks behind at jammed haybine, sighs, and yards on the PTO lever...and then I guess I must have had another darn brainfart, because I was trying to remember which way was engage or disengage on it - couldn't tell by looking at PTO shaft, because when the haybine jammed, the PTO shaft wouldn't spin.</p><p></p><p>Couldn't turn this tractor off unless it was parked facing down a good hill or there was a tractor to pull start it, as Honey hates mechanicking so much that he didn't ever bother to fix the starter (and I'm all thumbs and no clues with fixing mechanical objects).</p><p></p><p>Well, dumbie puts tractor in park after she figures PTO must be disengaged, cranks the tension pressure off the rollers, crawls for the umpteenth time under the haybine and starts yarding clumps of alfalfa out from the rollers.</p><p></p><p>Yep. God sent another angel to look after dumbasses, because all of a sudden that haybine started to jump and rattle as the rollers whirled into action, just as my hand was clearing them.</p><p></p><p>I nearly died of fright, but it sure woke me up for the next consecutive 48 hours. I don't think I stopped shaking for week.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleAnnie, post: 189466, member: 220"] Not pto shaft, but if PTO powered and tired combined make for acts of idiocy...then guilty as charged. Was mowing hay with the haybine. Using a wore out old haybine that kept jamming the rollers seemed every time I got into heavy alsike or alfalfa stands...and there was quite a lot of heavy stands that year. Anyway, another long day on tractor in heat during day number gadzillion of haying season, was getting tired, I guess. Darn haybine jammed up again, and ancient JD tractor (been around since Christ was a cowboy) didn't have the PTO control lever labelled for engage or disengage...paint probably wore off twenty years ago. So tired dumb me, looks behind at jammed haybine, sighs, and yards on the PTO lever...and then I guess I must have had another darn brainfart, because I was trying to remember which way was engage or disengage on it - couldn't tell by looking at PTO shaft, because when the haybine jammed, the PTO shaft wouldn't spin. Couldn't turn this tractor off unless it was parked facing down a good hill or there was a tractor to pull start it, as Honey hates mechanicking so much that he didn't ever bother to fix the starter (and I'm all thumbs and no clues with fixing mechanical objects). Well, dumbie puts tractor in park after she figures PTO must be disengaged, cranks the tension pressure off the rollers, crawls for the umpteenth time under the haybine and starts yarding clumps of alfalfa out from the rollers. Yep. God sent another angel to look after dumbasses, because all of a sudden that haybine started to jump and rattle as the rollers whirled into action, just as my hand was clearing them. I nearly died of fright, but it sure woke me up for the next consecutive 48 hours. I don't think I stopped shaking for week. Take care. [/QUOTE]
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