The typical PTO shaft can:

(1) Wrap up over 6 feet of shoe lace per second. How long is your shoe lace?
(2) Wrap your arm or leg around the PTO shaft nine times in a second? How flexible are you?
(3) Produce second degree burns on your skin when caused by synthetic cloth movement at high speeds.
(4) A very strong man can generate about three-fourths of one horsepower. What is your tractor HP?

In 1993 a local man was killed after being entangled in his power shaft of a corn grinder. Six years later on Sept. 27, 1999 his brother did the same thing and also died from the accident. I knew the second brother we had worked at the same Steel Mill. He worked around machinery at work as a mtce. man He was only 54 years old.
You can never be too careful around farm equipment.

#5. It's incredibly difficult to unwind a human body from around a PTO shaft (that has wound up that body so tight, it appears to be a large bloody doughnut) that is just 18" off the ground. The Almighty as my witness, I've assisted in that chore before...it's very messy, gorey, nasty, smelly, gruesome, unpleasant, unsightly, etc., etc.,

Need I say more?

Larry

Put mine on today. wont need the PTO till spring...Found out I have a 6 spline 1 3/8 pto shaft.. 5 minutes to get the orc off...