MF 65

[mark in ky]

On the MF 65 it has a ground speed PTO. What types of implements would run off the ground speed PTO. Im a little new to farming a just interested what it is used for?

 

[Masseynut(Australia)]

Say you had an implement, such as bean planter. The idea is to deliver the seed to the ground, via the planter, at a set ratio, to the distance travelled. "X" amount of seed, per distance travelled across the ground.
Just an example off the top,
Evan.

 

[maxwell99]

this is just a shot in the dark,

but I thought ferguson made a 3 pt hitch hay rake that ran off the ground speed pto.

 

[Jeff-oh]

Ground speed gives 1 rev of the PTO for ~20" of movement. It was used for the rakes.

Jeff

 

[Anonymous-0]

the ground speed pto allowed you to run the pto in reverse direction if needed

 

[Aaron Ford]

If you get your post hole auger stuck, I mean really stuck, the trick is to jack up one rear tire and place the PTO in ground speed. Put tractor in reverse and unscrew her. Safe? Probably not, but beats having your neighbor utter something like, "Say, whatcha got standing in your fence over there? Modern art?"

I have heard of them being used to drive the front wheels on some homemade FWAs.

Sounds like something I would do... Both of them.

Aaron

 

[Batman]

Ground speed PTO works an absolute treat on rotary PTO driven hay rakes as has been suggested - you get nice neat raking into rows/spreading without beating the hay to death/breaking it up using too high a PTO speed.

And yes, I do seem to remember that there was an implement for picking up small bales off the field using ground speed PTO, and hoiking them off to a trailer behind the tractor, but I've never seen one in the flesh. As I remember it from the photo, modern day H&S types would not approve of them. Spoilsports.

HTH

Batman

 

[Finn Md]

Ferguson DEO-20 hay rake was made for using with MF ground speed PTO. It is a nice gentle rake for grass hay.

 

[Eugene stevens]

Jeff,different question, how hard and where to get one ,the pto shaft on my 1948 te20 ferguson has 1 1/8 shaft need 1 3/8 how hard is it to change, or possible.I have adapter but do not like thanks eugene stevens in jacksonville fl.

 

[Danperkins]

I always wondered if the ground speed PTO was good for the PTO brake on tractors with wet PTO clutches?

 

[Jeff-oh]

It's very easy. This site and other sources have them. To change just drain the oil, or park facing down hill and pull just the aft plug. Then remove the 4 bolts that hold on the PTO. Pull it out and put in the new one... Thats it.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Had a massey 85 with a massey mounted corn picker on it. If the snapping rolls would plug, you could put it in ground pto, back up slowly and loosen the slug. I don't remember getting off too many times to pull stalks out of the rolls. Used it one time in reverse with a wheel jacked up, chained to a tree to run forage chopper backwards and sharpen knives. Didn't notice too much difference over running machine forward over the stone.

 

[Handsome Jim]

nice set up

 

[Handsome Jim]

Eugene? thats funnyyyy

 

[Handsome Jim]

very easy