Posted by Turnaround on December 21, 2016 at 06:27:03 from (67.237.87.156):
In Reply to: Re: Homemade pto? posted by Turnaround on November 01, 2016 at 16:50:19:
My 28 year old friend and I (79 years old) got a 4.11 gear ratio Ford Ranger rear axle welded to an old trailer tongue, and then mounted an extra set of Ferris zero turn wheels and tires. The overall gear ratio worked pretty well as the PRO spins pretty fast at ground speed. I had not transported my Ferris yet, to the site with the Millcreek manure spreader ( and mountain of several year old manure from the farm's previous owner) so I hooked my spreader to the homemade PTO mule axle, then hooked the whole rig to my 61" Skags Turf Tiger. The Skags towed the rig wonderfully well. It flings manure like a champ, and the Ranger axle is heavy enough to gain traction with out creating tire drag marks in the samdy paddocks. My rig might not work with some of your monster manure rigs, and great loads of wet manure, but it sure lets me use a PTO driven Millcreek manure spreader on a property with no real PTO capable tractor.
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