ANYBODY RECOGNIZE THIS?

[DollarBill]

Appears to be some sort of auxiliary PTO?

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[Shetland Sheepdog]

Gonna make a WAG and speculate that it might a speed reduction unit to give the tractor "creeper gears".

 

[john_Bud]

(quoted from post at 04:46:11 01/04/12) Appears to be some sort of auxiliary PTO?

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It looks like a PTO speed double on an aux pto. Never seen anything like it.

 

[Sean in PA]

It looks like it has a belt or pulley drive where the regular PTO would go, and then the gear and external shaft would still give you a regular shat type PTO so you wouldn't have to switch back and forth.

 

[souNdguy]

am I seeing things or does this look like it is driving off the pinion tube.. kinda making for a 'ground speed' pto.

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[Brian in MA]

I was thinking it looked like an auxilary pulley for a flat belt. Never seen one.

 

[Vito]

Dave,

Was thinking it could be a Everret trencher transmission.That is
where they installed them.If it is it is a very rare item.

Vito

 

[Ultradog MN]

You are correct it is driven off the pinion.
It looks like you could turn it over and run it towards the front for 4 wheel drive.

 

[RodinNS]

Looks to me like it takes it's drive off the pinion shaft... so it's driven with the wheels. Logically, that would make it a transfer case.... Mabey it had some other type of step down gearbox or chain system that drives a front shaft for MFWD?
I really don't know. It's certainly not a reduction box because the drive goes straight through the driven gear. It might be some type of ground drive PTO but I don't know what for...

Rod

 

[Dean]

It looks like the drive for a trencher.

The PTO drives the trencher and the trencher drives the tractor.

Dean

 

[Errin OH]

Thats what I see. A true "ground speed PTO". My WAG is it is part of some specialized implement / attachment that needed to match the PTO speed to the ground speed of the attachment regardless of engine rpms. My first thought would be some type of planter.

 

[souNdguy]

could be.. might be driving ground wheels and then the belt on the back may drive a flywheel.. etc.. etc..

neat looking...

 

[BDT/NWMN]

Dean, I believe so. leaving the tractor transmission in neutral; the pto would run the trencher, a reduction box on the trencher would SLOWLY turn that exnternal shaft, which in turn powered the pinion shaft..to match the required creeping speed of a trencher.

 

[sotxbill]

flip it over forward and its a 4wd...shaft.