ASABE Corrects Error in Power Take-off Standard

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has revised one of its five recently completed ISO adoptions pertaining to power take-offs on agricultural tractors.

The ASABE revised document, ANSI/ASABE AD500-1:2004 W/Cor. 1 OCT2011, Agricultural tractor – Rear-mounted power take-off types 1, 2 and 3 – Part 1: General specifications, safety requirements, dimensions for master shield and clearance zone, is an adoption, with deviations, of the identically titled international standard, ISO 500-1:2004, The revision corrected an error that was found in the forward section of the standard, in which deviations from the ISO document are listed, concerning PTO output speed.

For information on this or any other ASABE standard, contact Scott Cedarquist at ASABE (269) 932-7031, cedarq@asabe.org.