Gear drive vs hydro

[Reg]

All right you frugal gear heads....

You give the argument that you bought your new gear tractor because you wanted the most hp for your buck....

(with the exception of Soundguy, who seems to be frugal AND smart about his purchases) If you really, really worried so much about your precious cash, you would have bought a used machine in good shape VS a new machine. After all, gears last forever, right? Now justify your way out of that one you money wasters.

And don't give me any warranty, schmorranty excuses either. I want real justification as to why you spent so much money. You could have bought a lot of implements if you wouldn't have shelled out the big bucks for a new machine

Common.... let's hear it.

Who sed nu ?

 

[jake98]

Where do the breakes issues start. Hydro guys don't even unbolt them do they.. wake me up when we get to...

jake

ps or are all of you unaware of the split brake syndrome. Do we really have to start a new thread if we want to talk about the hydro feet jig brake??

 

[tallyho8]

Out of curiosity, since you have the ehydro, what is it about it that you do not like and do you think you would prefer deere's AutoHST to their ehydro?

 

[jk96]

ps or are all of you unaware of the split brake syndrome. Do we really have to start a new thread if we want to talk about the hydro feet jig brake??

Jake - are you talking about having the split brakes on the same side as the hydro pedal? My DX45 has the pedal on the right foot and brakes on the left.

My prior tractor, DX33, had the split brakes on the same side as the pedal. Not sure what genious at Case came up with this idea but at least someone that designed my 45 had a little more common sense.

 

[dirtworksequip]

I just had better control over the geared tractor and knew exactly what it was going to do in a given situation. Sometimes the ehyro will act in a way I had not anticipated.Maybe it's just me. When I am inching up sometimes it will stop before I want it to. I guess I don't like the roll out. To me a hystat should stop dead when the control goes to nuetral.
I had 2000+ hours on the geared JD870 and only 350 hours on the ehyro 3520. Will I like the ehydro any better when it has 2000 hours on it? Not sure. My 13 year old son also liked the geared tractor better than the ehydro. I would have to try out an auto style ehydro before I could say I liked it any better than the ehydro as I have not been on one yet.
Seemed like the 28hp geared had more power than the 37hp ehydro. I should have hooked them up drawbar to drawbar when I still owned both tractors.
I will say that I owned a Cat D3G hystat and loved it. So, its not that I have anything against hystat transmissions.

Sincerely, Dirt

 

[jake98]

Jake - are you talking about having the split brakes on the same side as the hydro pedal? My DX45 has the pedal on the right foot and brakes on the left.

My prior tractor, DX33, had the split brakes on the same side as the pedal. Not sure what genious at Case came up with this idea but at least someone that designed my 45 had a little more common sense.

Pretty much that's what I was saying, altho I don't know why I'm surprised (I might be a redneck) that there are other ways they put the pedals on.. With them on the same side as the rocker, mine still have the bolt on. Partly it is, of course, since my sexy R-4' make it useless to try to do anything since whenever I venture out... ah.. that's another dam thread .

Happpy Friday Nite folks... I had to get a chair today to 'rod the boiler'. Felt good when we got the last (mohegan's) broken off tool out... it was like a sore tooth, it HAD to go. Friggin thing is 9' long, 40" wide and (I'd say 5'4" perfect for a woman) tall. 12 sections 11 cleanouts, 3 nozz... (it's new 2 me)(boiler work)(easier than carpentry)(wind was blowing outside, chair inside)(ah, ****, you's are...

 

[Egon]

Ohh dear; me thinks that under the guise of academic integrity that we have all have been led down the garden path!

 

[jake98]

Ohh dear; me thinks that under the guise of academic integrity that we have all have been led down the garden path!

Is that from the Dude on top of that picture?

Where the hay were you yesterday when we all needed you??

 

[Chuck K.]

anyone want to hear my HST stories???

 

[jake98]

Well I do, maybe I'm the only idoit that doesn't know what the smiley faces are for, but what the hey, I'll bite. Let's hear'um. jm