Southern Yankee
New member
Equipment
L3301 HST, Front Loader. Land Pride Brush-Hog, Box Blade, and Quick Hitch
Ramos and Pat, thank you for your inputs. I did not mean to offend. At the time, I looked at the identity sidebar and we are all apprentices. I guess, like Trump, tact and fineness is not one of my better traits.
Pat, you are right, back in the late forties, my uncle was a real farmer and he had a little finger missing (hay baler. I believe). I had my first farm incident with him. I sat on the brake release of his Farmall MD and it started rolling down the driveway. I think I was six or seven at the time.
Believe me, in both the military (aircraft maintenance) and my civilian job (industrial specialist) we breathed safety. However, my old body (I’m 75) and hands do not move like a young persons and I find the PTO bell cover to be a poor design (at least for me). I know from experience some manufacturers will do the minimum to comply. To me the ideal would be a spring-loaded bell cover that slipped back into place after the lock ring was moved. I realize the objective of the safety covers is to protect the stupid (and I can sometimes be that way) but there is a lot of overkill and poor design out there.
The purpose of my post was to find out if there is a better way to do things. Is there a better after-market product or a way the bell cover can be modified and still perform its function. My first thought was to remove the bell cover and leave the inner cover. Someone mentioned trimming the bell cover and I wonder if the sides could be cut out of the bell cover to reach the slip ring and have the cover still perform its function. I am a newbie, I don’t know if there is a better way and that is why I ask. I am getting some good inputs and an education and I thank you all for that
Richard
Pat, you are right, back in the late forties, my uncle was a real farmer and he had a little finger missing (hay baler. I believe). I had my first farm incident with him. I sat on the brake release of his Farmall MD and it started rolling down the driveway. I think I was six or seven at the time.
Believe me, in both the military (aircraft maintenance) and my civilian job (industrial specialist) we breathed safety. However, my old body (I’m 75) and hands do not move like a young persons and I find the PTO bell cover to be a poor design (at least for me). I know from experience some manufacturers will do the minimum to comply. To me the ideal would be a spring-loaded bell cover that slipped back into place after the lock ring was moved. I realize the objective of the safety covers is to protect the stupid (and I can sometimes be that way) but there is a lot of overkill and poor design out there.
The purpose of my post was to find out if there is a better way to do things. Is there a better after-market product or a way the bell cover can be modified and still perform its function. My first thought was to remove the bell cover and leave the inner cover. Someone mentioned trimming the bell cover and I wonder if the sides could be cut out of the bell cover to reach the slip ring and have the cover still perform its function. I am a newbie, I don’t know if there is a better way and that is why I ask. I am getting some good inputs and an education and I thank you all for that
Richard
My intentions here is to help and inform people of anything that I can truly help with in my 22+ years experience at my dealership and 3 years at a rental store.