PTO Shaft Maintenance - Don't Neglect This! ( 

Honestly, and this is not hype, this video is more helpful than my tractor manufacturer's videos AND manuals combined! All I can figure is John Deere must have a business plan that relies on new tractor owners like myself to fail at my required maintenance and then need to buy more expensive JD parts. You have saved my rear in more ways than one. Thank you!

OMG, how have I never heard/seen this before, and why don't folks teach new tractor owners like me that we need to do this? Thank you, sir, for your service to the tractor community!

Awesome video. This video is far superior in quality than the typical self-help video produced by large corporations. You are doing a better job than professionals who get paid to make videos for a living.

I use a different method to separate my PTO shafts for periodic inspection. It involves forgetting to disconnect the PTO and driving away from the bush hog.

I notice you have over 19K subscribers but I just want to say that the video I just watched was clear, concise & cogent! Very efficient, instructional and educational, which while there are many worthwhile videos on RU-vid, yours EXCELs. THANK YOU!

Love your straight forward style.

Brand-new subscriber. I love how thorough you are. Thank you for making the world a better place!

Excellent tip, Martin. It's definitely an important maintenance tip to ensure smooth PTO operation. Truly enjoy you well-executed videos. Have a fine Friday and upcoming weekend.

Nice job Martin! I tend to do this annually, but you taught me a couple things I did not know. Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to make this video! Cheers!

Your videos are the most informative on pto shafts that I have watched, great job.

Definitely overlooked by many! That lincoln grease gun is my favorite manual i've used. Thanks for sharing

Nice little "how to" video that I will refer to when I service my PTO shaft

Good day eh!!! Great video Martin. Nice step by step instructions and reasons why you do what you do. This is a very helpful video!!! Thanks for posting. Take care!!

Thanks for the information, especially the hour meter.

Great video, my friend! Clear, concise and to the point. I pulled out the BushHog yesterday and need to do this soon. Those slip-collar PTO connectors will make a preacher cuss.

Best information on this I have seen. Thanks!!!

Very thorough video. Also liked the way you sped up the repeated items. Thanks!

Good reminder to service my PTO shafts! Great presentation!

Thanks for the reminder. Look forward to it cause it means winter is over for me!

Hey Martin, another awesome vid that I got incredible value from. Thank you sir!

Finally got around to servicing my PHD shaft, good thing too, shear bold was about to give up the ghost. Nice to know coming into spring it's all serviced and ready to go. Thanks again for a great video.

Good to know. I have had my tractor 1.5 years and have not used the PTO.

awesome, thanks a million. I was greasing the U-joints but not the rest. Just added it to my checklist.

Great job. I wish I had watched this last night. I had some trouble working on my LP1872RCR pto shaft. I’ll know better now.

Another great video - thank you. I recently purchased the same McNaught grease gun, and then equipped it with a slightly longer hose from them as well as a LocknLube coupler. So much nicer than my old setup.

Wow thank you for this video ! Great information needed for keeping everything smoothly.

Great video, and another one of your videos goes in my "saved" list for use later.

Good advice Martin. I have known several farmers over the years that didn't own a grease gun... if they did, they sure didn't use it. Greasing is about the cheapest maintenance that you can do. An ounce of prevention... as they say.

Another great video. I just bought a bush hog a few months ago and the manual that came with the PTO shaft was wet and un readable. This helped tremendously. Thanks for taking the time to make this video!

Another great, useful video. Thanks for the complete coverage and example. Cheers.

Great video. I always grease the zerks, but I have never pulled the shaft completely apart. I will be doing this, this weekend due to your video. Thanks, Russ. Esko, Minnesota

Greetings Martin, Lee here, thanks for the great info in this video, I have to admit I have been neglecting the complete maintenance on my snowblower drive shaft, so today i am going to do a complete job on it. Keep these great information videos coming, we appreciate it, you and your family keep well, later

Awesome video Martin. Always informative. Will do this on my brush cutter pto.

Great video ! Overdue maintenance when I put the backhoe on next week

Thanks, super helpful!

Good evening Sir 😊 THE BEST maintenance video ever made Sir 😊👍 and like you said at the end of your video ( maintain it regularly ! ) is the Key factor Sir 😊👍 Have a great week Sir Cheers !!!

Another great video!

Thanks Always learning new things

Another excellent video.

Hey, love your videos....thanks so much

Glad to hear that you don’t just show a finished, well rehearsed project. The trials and tribulations also add great info because unfortunately, we all know Mr. Murphy, 😂

on those plastic tip if you slip in a wire tie under the clips you go the cover will just slip off after the third clip works great every time hope that helps

Thanks so much for this video! I need to service my brush hog shaft and now have the blueprint to do that! I subscribed to your channel. Thank you.

Very informative and easily explained.

That's another one of those things you always tend to do it. but it always slips your mind! lol Enjoyed the video Martin! See ya in the next one!

Well done, informtive and thorough video. Thanks. "Keep on Keeping on!" Tim

I have no PTO attachments yet but great tip! I can see how it could get overlooked!

Hi, What a great video, very informative and excellent presentation, I am a little embarrassed to say that I have about 400 hours on my Kioti CK 35 and have up until now only greased the zerks, that I can see. I probably over grease the tractor and Walker mower, have thought should I be doing something else, now I will try to do the right thing by the pto shaft as well. Thank you very much for taking the time to create this video, and as Tim Sawyer said “Thank you sir, for your service to the tractor community in Australia”. Hopefully I haven’t damaged anything because of my ignorance. Have a great weekend.

Good. Thank you

Great video, thank you sir.

Good presentation

Very informative video. I guess I have been very lucky. I grease the universal joints, but I have never worked on any of the other parts. I did damage a protective cover once by pressing it against my turning shaft and three point quick hitch. It rubbed through. Guess I need to purchase a new protective cover and install.

Terrific video. Thank you!

Have learned that a rag with a bit of diesel helps to remove all grease within the U-joint area: and also cleaning up the two half of the PTO shaft. The the shaft are ready for lubrication. For the slip collar they are prone to getting misshape when dropped onto the tow bar. Yup they do slip from our hands at time. A large snap ring holds the collar in place. It is my winter repair project. Keeping the spring loaded collar sprayed with PB Blaster on a regular basis helps reduce the effort to make the connection. Some may not like the idea of diesel to clean these but after many products falling short of their advertisement, it works for me. I simply let the rags dry out over time outside and reuse them until it's time for disposal at your local auto shop or wherever they can be disposed of. Thanks for the demo.....well done illustrating the two kinds.

Those are the exact words I used (@#!$%) while trying to remove my own green PTO shaft shield. So much so, I thought, surely there must have been a recall and a replacement part issued. Instead the dealer (I’m pretty sure we have the same chipper) referred me to your video! I had tried everything: Just as you did, I tried rotating it working one screwdriver; inserting 3 separate screwdrivers while working one and pulling on the shield with the other; ditto, but this time twisting instead of turning; enlisting my wife to “man” the other two screwdrivers with me on the 3rd and pulling; then her pulling…. The result? The (@#!$%) thing has been sitting on my workbench for two weeks, shielded and undefeated. Every couple of days I get up enough confidence to try again, only to be vanquished from my own workshop! If you weren’t half a continent away I’d ask if you made house calls. However, armed with your video and the knowledge those end shields indeed do come off, and by way of a pulling force and not twisting motion, I’ll try again. (Gulp.) Finally, like another viewer noted, thank you for mentioning the needle attachment for grease gun. I had never heard of such a thing and just assumed the plastic “nipples” were further evidence of Chinese engineering prowess…. Best. Joe

I’ve honestly never done this, but I’ll do it this weekend. I have greased the zerk fittings but that’s all.

Thank you!

Thank you very much !

Thanks...I liked it...informative !

Great job!

I have a 2023 Bush Hog BH115 and it uses the CurseWorthy (tm) tabs on the sleeves.

Great Job!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

An excellent, informative video. Liked & subbed. Thanks! 👍

Awesome thanks 👍🏼

It was nice to see that I'm not the ONLY tractor owner that has had the same problem getting those shrouds off. Every time I go thru the same hassle and wonder what I'm doing wrong and why I'm having to struggle so much with it. In the few company videos that I've been able to find on how to do it, they always just pop right off. Thanks for making me feel as if I'm not the only one to struggle with it.

Great video!

Good video

Right now my PTO shaft is being pulled apart between two trees using ratchet straps because they won’t come apart. I’ll be sure to come back to this video for preventative maintenance so it doesn’t happen again 🚜 👍🏼

good solid information. nice job

Great video thanks.

Thanks

great video

Another well-made video. Thanks. Any idea why they make the profile of the shafts so that they only slide on one way?

Great video and explanation of how to do this. What is the pencil adapter- and if you don’t have one- where do you get them?

Did you ever make a video of making a custom shroud cover? The factory Land Pride is very difficult to work around. Love your videos!

I think all of my grease guns have finally stopped working. Maybe I'll look into one of these.

Thank you for the video. I’m sorry I don’t share the same 5 star opinion given in most of the comments. I came hear looking for information on what to do if it’s not great! Your video: the shroud looks great, move on; the inner pto shaft is clean, move on. I want to know what to do if it’s not nice and clean. Please include that next time. Take my $0.10 in ad revenue…

Hi,I've been subscribed for a while now, and have a question. But first off I want to say how much I love details in your videos ie the high quality sound and the music. You must be a musician or in the entertainment world. My question is about the pin on my pto coupler fell out and I can't figure out how to get it back in. Should I just buy another coupler end?

This was an immensely helpful video for me. I just need your video about replacing the gearbox safety shroud with something more serviceable!! That safety shroud was not designed by someone that actually needed to change the shear pin or remove the PTO shaft. Did you ever make a video on that or come up with a solution?

Mine sat for a few years, I’m still trying to get it apart lol..

Martin, nice job. Thanks. Great reference video. I use non-chlorinated brake cleaner on really dirty areas of my pro shafts and shrouds. What are your thoughts? Also, how many pairs of gloves did you go through? Have a productive day.

Great video for PTO maintenance. You mention the gear box safety shroud and how difficult it is to access the connection to the tractor. I have this same problem with my BH15 bushhog when I need to service the slip clutch. Do you have a solution for this or a workaround?? Thanks for reply.

Perfect instructions; my PTO shaft is now clean and happy. Question for you--my PTO shaft does not appear to have shear bolts. It does have split pins at each end, connecting the U-joint to the shaft. Are those split pins possibly designed to function as shear pins? Thanks much!

Great video! My issue is I cannot get the pot shaft yoke on my 47" snowblower to release and lock on to the tractor's drive shaft. I've lubed it, cleaned it, hit it with a rubber hammer, nothing. The collar retracted when I took it off the tractor's pto stub but now I cannot get it to lock back on when trying to put it back on. Any advice?

Ive got 40 hours on my tractor and i forgot this part! lol

What are your thoughts on using silicone or graphite spray on the telescoping parts of the shaft instead of Lucas grease? Thanks!

Great video, I kept shearing Grade 2 bolts like crazy. Went Grade 5 no issues. John Deere salesman said the 5 would still shear without really doing any damage as did the lead service tech. Just my opinion. To each their own. Grade 2 just too weak

Any tricks for removing the transmission PTO protective cap on new kubota 4060?

Dou you have a video of replacing one of the shafts if it gets damaged?

My BUSHHOG PTO shaft has been sticking in cold weather so I have trouble extending it to hook up to the PTO. I pulled it apart and will clean and grease per your video. What grease do you recommend for freezing temps. Also, how do I clean the inside of the female shaft? Ed

Any idea why on a compact tiller the shaft rear safety tube s hook has bent and came loose twice? Hasn't broke plastic eye on tube and rotating by hand in neutral there is no binding

How do you disconnect the shaft from the implement (rotary cutter)?

I haven't greased my pto shaft in 25 yrs no problems yet

Cool music! Who is it ?

What type of grease? And what kind of oil and oil dispenser did you use? Took tractor over for an Ill family member so I know it’s a rookie question

I curse a lot when messing with any pto shafts

great video, i have 2 ptos just like yours, yes those shrouds are a pain in the-- to get off

How much is the minimum amount the shaft need to overlap while working?

Martin, Which grease do you use?

Hi there , I have 2018 John Deere 2025R tractor . I have the brush hog driveline stuck on my PTO shaft . Does anybody have an idea how to get driveshaft off ? I tried spraying WD40 into quick release yoke I think there’s 3 ball bearings that might be rusted . Still stuck please any ideas will be appreciated .