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Thanks for all the input fellas! Glad I could change the course of discussion for the day! The wife gave me permission to buy this PTO splitter so I think I'm going to jump on it. I'll post a pic and reviews if and when I grab it.

 

I have a couple of them and they seem accurate to me. Showed me an issue Kawasakis have with over revving. Mine and many run 4100RPMs. Thats what it showed me and my Kohlers read 3100-3150.

 

More isn't better??

 

Yes, for adding a viewing window to your engine block. Can be a bit messy. YMMV.

 

Kohler. No issues so far. bit of a pain to start when it sits for months.

 

Ok thanks, yeah Kohler would be my 2nd choice in brand of motors.

 

Cool deal, just remember you dont need permission, just a well thought and planned forgiveness.

 

A lot of old tractors and stuff used to have the hour meter wired to the oil pressure switch.
https://forums.sailboatowners.com/threads/wiring-in-an-hour-meter.77940/

 

This function is easy to add to most engines. Replace the single terminal oil pressure light sending unit with one with 3 terminals.

The two additional terminals are a normally open switch that closes with oil pressure.

They were commonly installed on cars with an electric heated choke. The choke terminal of the sending unit was only powered when the engine had oil pressure, this prevented the choke from opening (and the engine not wanting to start) if the key was left in the on position with the engine not running.

Some GM cars of the early 80's had a warning light labeled "oil/choke" instead of just "oil".

Note for younger readers: These were carburetor equipped cars -- back in the dark ages before fuel injection.

 

Tractor PTO means less small engines I have to maintain and repair.
Plus, I am not afraid of putting hours on my little kubota bx.

 

What bx series you running?

 

At brother joes place mowing for 3 hours this afternoon… he’s on vacation this week… yup me and my son try to take care of what he normally does during the week… had 2” of rain last night!! Couldnt really tell thou…. Must of flushed out as fast as it came in…. Took half day today and tomorrow to catch up on mowing…. Beats work and dealing with customers who could careless about anyone but themselves…. Beer and diesel…. Anyway if the week for me!!

 

I hate mice…..

 

I went ahead and purchased the PTO powered wood splitter for $400 and I could not be more happy! This thing seriously kicks butt. The guy I bought it from is a retired machinist and he built this thing himself 15 or so years ago. It's incredibly simple so should anything ever go wrong with it I'll be able to fix it myself no problem.

The sun was down low when I was trying to take a picture so please forgive me for the bad lighting



My tractor has a two speed PTO - 540 and 1000 rpm so I can just set the PTO speed on high and let the tractor pretty much just idle while I run this thing.

 

Looks like he added a filter on there as well, cool.

 

There is an inline oil filter on the backside that you can't see in the picture and the filter that is on top of the hydraulic oil tank in the picture here just works as a vented cap that flies can't get into. The dude was clever.

 

Yup, gonna need better pics.

 

New around here and just sharing the day that I brought home my upgrade from the little power house Kubota to the mean Green machine. Just needed more horse power, larger bucket but wish the green machine had hydrostatic. John Deere 4610 with just under 500 hours, but now had about 550 hours.
KIMG0233 by Tim Richard, on Flickr

 

Nice looking tractors. And welcome to tacomaworld!

 

Great place to start on TW.

Welcome, Howdy from Texas.