Power take-off: Difference between revisions

The PTO and its associated shafts and [[universal joint]]s are a common cause of [[accident]]s and [[injury]] in [[farming]] and industry. When a piece of clothing, which can be as small as a single thread, touches a spinning part it can be pulled around the part. The clothing and the person wearing it are instantaneously pulled into the shaft resulting in loss of a limb or death. Some implements do use metalplastic guards to try to keep a person from becoming entangled in a PTO shaft, but even with guards people need to exercise caution around PTO shafts when they are plugged into a tractor.

In some countries it is illegal to operate a PTO without the shaft gaurd correctly fastened.