1990 - Volume #14, Issue #2, Page #10
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Portable Electric PTO
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"We like the fact that we can vary pto speed from very slow to regular speed and even put it in reverse, if needed," says Canne, who uses the cart-mounted pto to power an auger from a continuous flow grain dryer, as well as other equipment.
A 3-hp. electric motor belt-drives a 4-speed truck transmission via a large drive pulley mounted on the input shaft. A splined pto shaft ataches to the output driveshaft. The shift lever is in place at the top of the transmission and is used normally. Motor and transmission are anchored to a metal platform mounted on a two-wheeled chassis. Since the accompanying photo was taken Canne has added a caster wheel in place of the front jack that makes it handier to move the pto cart around.
The only parts he had to buy were the electric motor and a bearing. He found everything else in his scrap pile.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Canne, 792 Co. Rd. #6, Phelps, N.Y. 14532 (ph 315-946-6438).
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