Originally Posted by
BuffaloJohn
That clutch wouldn't have helped the video guy, he locked up the U-joint...
I'll have to look at mine tomorrow, I don't remember if it has a clutch or shear pin. I'm going to guess shear pin on the pto shaft on the mower end.
In order for that clutch to work properly, every year you have to loosen the bolts and let it slip and then tighten the bolts a little (its in the manual). I think only two of my implements have clutches. For a mower like this, it might not have either because the drums can't catch on anything, the blades are all of about 3" long on pivots, and short of running the pto in transport mode, it doesn't need anything.
For the shear pin, what the guy in the video would do if the bolt kept snapping would be to put a nice hardened bolt in there so that pesky bolt wouldn't snap and make you have to stop and change it.