sea2summit
Elite Member
I'm very impressed so far. I was looking at 5200's but after shopping and getting Barlow's pricing I got the 5800. When I got to the shop it had 2.1 hrs on it and by the time I tied it down it had an even 3. First day I played around with it but nothing serious and got it up to 9.1 hrs and topped it off with just less than four gallons, thought it was because I didn't do anything that hard with it. Day two of operation I kept the RPMs between 1650 and 1800 doing a lot of backhoe work for a little more than 7 hours, topped it with about 4.75 gal (sorry all I have is a five gallon can to measure). Pretty impressive considering my BX doesn't use that much less and the MX does a whole crap ton more work. We'll see what happens at the higher RPMs for PTO work etc but for right now I'm tickled pink.
Obligatory tractor pic.
Obligatory tractor pic.