PTO Pulley

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Do any of you have or know where I might get a belt pulley that will fit a 540 PTO on a tractor? I need one in order to run my hammer mill. Thanks.

-- Red Neck (sesech@csa.com), March 06, 2002

Answers

What tractor and where are you?

-- Ross (amulet@istar.ca), March 06, 2002.

Check out the Yesterday's Tractors site at www.ytmag.com for links to forums, parts, ads, etc., for old tractors of every kind.

Jim

-- Jim (jiminwis@yahoo.coom), March 07, 2002.


Hi,

You can easily make one. Take the spline coupling from an old pto shaft and either unbolt the coupling if the pto shaft is keyed or square in x section or cut it off if it is welded.

Now attach it to your pulley by either inserting a piece of shafting...you might need to bush the pulley side to get the right diameter or yo might need to bore the pulley hub or turn down the shaft etc. Don't weld the pulley hub to the shaft or to the spline coupling unless you are certain of the type of metal in both. Instead weld what ever you need to the piece of shafing to mount the pulley.

If you are not handy, go to your pulley supply house and tell them that you need a certain pulley diameter and pitch with the specific spline features of your PTO output shaft.

There are lots of other ways to do this if you mount your pulley on a stand and simply couple it to a pto shaft on one end of the pulley shaft. You could have the pulley supported by its own bearings that way and you would not place any lateral load on your pto.

Oscar

-- Oscar H. Will III (owill@mail.whittier.edu), March 07, 2002.


If the hammermill is on a stand, why can't you run it via a regular pto shaft from your tractor's pto. Putting a belt drive pulley on your tactor's pto is going to run into all sorts of clearance problems.

Tractor pto's aren't designed to take heavy sideloads. Take a look at the hammer mill and see if you can adapt it to take a pto shaft.

Some of the older tractors had a side belt drive tht came off the tansmission. New tractors don't have that.

-- Darren (df1@infi.net), March 07, 2002.


Flat belts run at a different speed than a 540 pto, so it's not quite as easy as Oscar says, you would also need to put some gearing in it.

The N Fords had a pto adaptor, other old tractors often had a mid-tractor option for it. I'm not familiar with a 'universal' unit that bolts to any tractor.

--->Paul

-- paul (ramblerplm@hotmail.com), March 07, 2002.



I have three different types of PTO adaptor to flat belt pully drives. Sorry none are for sale but I'll ask some around here if your close. They're not all the same, I have one that fits a 9n another more universal 4 bolt that fits my DB but I know came off a Cockshutt 540, and a third configuration that bolts to a 60's ford 5000 but I think would even fit a current New Holland 5610 SII and up! YT Mag would be good just beware there are different types. YT MAG

-- Ross (amulet@istar.ca), March 07, 2002.

Adeptr.com might be a good source too, they have listings of scrap yards across the US and Canada

-- Ross (amulet@istar.ca), March 07, 2002.

I got a Army surplus that was made for a WW II Jeep and it bolts right up my Massy 245 which is the same as most Fords.

-- Mel Kelly (melkelly@webtv.net), March 07, 2002.

I solved the problem of running a hammermill with a pto by finding a grain dryer that was being scrapped out. It had a pto shaft connected to a 3-groove V-belt pulley on a pillow block bearing shaft. Also had a larger pulley for the other end. Removed the flat belt pulley from the mill and installed the smaller v-belt one. The v-belt pulley had a tapered bushing center that had to be changed to the right shaft size. This solved the problem of getting perfectly lined up, fixed the shaft speed differential and my mill turned the opposite direction so I mounted it across the mill. The whole setup cost about $10. that was for the new tapered bushing, got the other for taking it off. Be sure to put shields on however you do it.

-- Dave (drcomer@rr1.net), March 07, 2002.

any used tractor dealer should have one they are popular

-- Grizz in Western Maryland (southerneagle@yahoo.com), March 09, 2002.


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