The tractor I bought doesn't have PTO and adding a OEM pto consists of splitting the tractor and replacing the rear end.
I had considered trying to use the front bucket hydraulics to power a PTO motor mounted to a mower.
It has a larger dedicated pump for the loader.
Everyone says there will be cooling issues due to insufficient fluid capacity.
I may just have to get a gas powered 3 point mower if such a thing exists.
Mmmmmm….I am thinking about this, but might need to know more about your particular tractor.
There is merit in people's opinions, especially online, but often it is very easy to be negative, when that might not be the case. For instance I was told putting a PTO on my bulldozer would blow out the transmission as it would put thrust on the shaft, but that is downright stupid, a pto shaft slides in and out upon itself so there is no end thrust on the shaft at all.
Again, I do not know your tractor, but mine has a stub shaft coming off the front motor. If yours has that, you could get a PTO pump to mount to that, and route lines back...or even up front...to your mower. If you are worried about cooling, you could use hard lines in places instead of hydraulic hose in places flexibility was not needed, as the rubber coating keeps the hydraulic oil from cooling, or you could just just add an oil cooler. I had problems with my John Deere 350 hydraulic reverser heating up, and added a transmission cooler to it, and my temp dropped significantly, and it was only $80.
I do not think adding a separate engine to a mower would be difficult. I think you could buy a used bushog, then add a used engine to it fairly easily and not break the bank. Around here hobby farmers get kind of silly and go out and buy 100 hp tractors just so they can run a round baler. If it was me, rather than spend buckoo bucks on a tractor of that size for (2) jobs a year, I would just add an engine to the baler and just pull it with a smaller tractor. Of course I say that lightly because I hate hay, and would never buy haying equipment, but I have also have sheep, and was raised on a dairy farm, so I have an out of control silage fetish. (Sheep thrive on corn and grass silage).
Another option that might be better for you, and turn-key if you do not like fabrication, would be to check out Pioneer Equipment and buy what I call a "motivator". The Amish are strange in that that like horses, but like 3 point hitch and pto implements to tow behind them. Pioneer Equipment sells units that horses (or tractors) pull, but have a separate engine to run a PTO and lift 3 point hitch equipment. The Amish do that here, get a team of horses to pull a separate engine that powers a towed round baler. Why they just don't get a tractor is beyond me.
I let a great Amish kid borrow my tractor to clean out an old barn of manure, and because he used it, the kid was shunned for 3 months. I even went to the elders and told them that I let him use my tractor, and they still would not reduce his punishment. There are worse neighbors to have granted, but good golly, God would have struck me dead years ago if he hated tractors that bad.
The only reason I might go with a motivator is because then you could power any PTO piece of equipment, and not have an engine sitting on just your mower.
