PTO's

mark h:
with being a fitter/driver i know how pto’s r driven an operate etc but it got me thinking the other day, how do you engage a pto with a fully automatic gearbox ?

as with a manual box, u dip the clutch, flick the pto into the engage postion and release the clutch an bingo, but how would you do it without a clutch, without just flicking it up and hearin a crunch from the gearbox ■■

it doesn’t crunch mate, all the automatic volvo’s at van den bosch all have pto’s, engines running, flick the switch, and its a smooth changeover