Bearsixty7
Veteran Member
That allows time for the oil to circulate through everything. In colder weather, give it more warm up time.As always, I appreciate the feedback. A couple more newb questions/observations about general ownership for you guys:
1. Sticker on the hood says “always idle for 1 minute when starting, and idle for two minutes before shutting down.” Is that true regardless of the tractor being warm or cold?
For shutdown that is especially important if it has a turbo, it needs time to wind down and cool off so it doesn't cook the oil in it.
If it's just for 5 minutes, let it idle. If longer, I usually shut it off.2. When you guys need to jump off the tractor for one to ten minutes and mess with something, then get back in the seat and resume operations, do you shut the motor off? Or let it idle? Or leave it at full rpm?
3. Micah at Town and Country Tractor (my dealer, highly recommended) says to always operate at around 2200, but I see a lot of guys on here are doing loader work at 1500-1800rpm. Micah says that is too low. Thoughts?
I say 1800 for lighter work because that's the RPM mine throttled up to on it's own the first time it did a regen when I was only running ~1500rpm.
EDIT: Also, the hydraulics respond faster at 1800rpm over 1500rpm, even faster at PTO speed.