Forestry winch pto angles

[J Holtby]

Hola, got a new bus and the linkage arms are alot shorter than before

 

When putting the igland on her I've cut down the shaft to fit but I can't help but slightly wince at the shaft angles

 

Does anyone one else do anything to mitigate this? 

 

Offset the winch on the linkage arms when onsite etc? I've done a fair bit of searching online and can't find any obvious examples of this

 

Also had to cut away most of the pto guarding for clearance where it fouls the drum casing, anyone got any ideas to help this? 

 

Cheers

[Khriss]

15 degrees the usual maxim with PTO shafts but seen them clattering at sharper angles    K

[dumper]

You can get shafts made for acute angles we had one made for our alpine I think it was a double cardan.

[difflock]

Can you not get true CV jointed shafts, same as car driveshafts?

[J Holtby]

Not sure I'd have space for double cardan, be just joints no shaft lol

[openspaceman]

24 minutes ago, J Holtby said:

Not sure I'd have space for double cardan, be just joints no shaft lol

Is it impractical to make some extensions for the lower link arms?

 

A picture may help

[arbwork]

possibly pto drop box  if you can find one