Hi Charles:
Well I went out to the garage and examined the shaft.Roadless traction was both ingenious and simple in the fabrication of the shaft. Shaft is just a little shy of 7 inches long. What they did was to take the male end of the PTO shaft (the end that goes inside the tractor) and weld it to the female end that the PTO shaft goes into without the reduction box or four wheel drive box. (You would have to cut the PTO shaft at the splined end (not the end that sticks out of the tractor at the back as the splines are different) It seems like a very simple fabrication. All you would need is a spare PTO shaft and the part it goes into inside the tractor cut them fit them and weld them. there is a bit of a ovrlap in that the piece of PTO shaft with the splines is inserted into the other piece for strength, there may be some machining involved in order to get them to go inside each other Then you reverse the extension shaft so now the male end of the regular PTO shaft goes into the female end of the extension shaft and the male end of the extension shaft goes into the tractor and pronto you have your extension. The trick would be ensuring it is welded straight which would be accomplised by putting the two pieces in a lathe and while turning weld it. Whoever was the engineer for Roadless Traction was ingenious. I will still post you some pics. But it seems like it is a simple fabrication once I took a closer look at the shaft. In the UK you have Majors dime a dozen so I am assuming it would not be hard to get these parts from a wrecking yard. Hope this helps. Kenneth
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