Your Guide to Tractor PTO Generator Units

A power-take-off (PTO) shaft to provide power from a tractor to an implement (e.g., a mower) is made of two parts that can slide with respect to each other to provide a variable length. The inner part is a solid bar with a rectangular cross section with dimensions 1.5 ×2.0 in. The outer part is a tube with a rectangular cross section with nominal dimensions to loosely fit over the solid bar, and has a wall thickness of (1)/(8) in. The material for both parts is 1035 CD steel. The maximum operati

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