Posted by PJH on December 22, 2010 at 15:54:47 from (71.171.212.9):
In Reply to: Re: pto splitter posted by Goose on December 22, 2010 at 15:30:32:
I remember those Goose, and I saw one in operation once. A local guy had it and he was really proud of it. It had a heavy string tied to a kill switch in case of mishap. He had it on a sharp looking little stepside Chevy. It worked pretty slick.
A few weeks later I saw his pickup and the left rear fender was all beat up. Seems that each piece dug a little deeper hole until one finally made a complete rotation. It was then that he discovered that if you yank the string too hard, in addition to breaking the string, you destroyed the kill switch. By the time he got the engine shut off it had beat a new radius on his wheel well opening.
He got rid of it without ever using it again. Up until that point I had thought about getting one because they were cheap and, well, I was too.
If I remember right, the PTO model turned the opposite direction from the wheel mounted one.
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