Fuel Consumption GPH

[pak7819]

Just curious if anyone else tracks their fuel usage close enough to determine gallons per hour. I'm a new member, have had my 2006 NH TC40DA for approx 2 1/2 months. In that time I've consumed ~13 gallons over 26 hrs.

I estimate no more than 5 of those 26 were spent at 2500 RPM bush hogging. The rest was FEL work or hauling wagons back and forth loaded with firewood (heavy).

My wife and I built a house a few years ago and much larger equip that I kinda sorta rented/borrowed from my father in law (bulldozer and track hoe) were in the neighborhood of 5-6 gallons per hour. Granted these machines were mostly under load, but that's all I have to compare against from my own personal experience of offroad diesels.

Just wondering if 2 GPH for my little NH is typical for a 4 cyl non turbo diesel under these conditions or if other owner/operators out there have similar observations to share. At ~$8 per hour to operate, that's not all that bad,...right?

 

[grsthegreat]

Just curious if anyone else tracks their fuel usage close enough to determine gallons per hour. I'm a new member, have had my 2006 NH TC40DA for approx 2 1/2 months. In that time I've consumed ~13 gallons over 26 hrs.

I estimate no more than 5 of those 26 were spent at 2500 RPM bush hogging. The rest was FEL work or hauling wagons back and forth loaded with firewood (heavy).

My wife and I built a house a few years ago and much larger equip that I kinda sorta rented/borrowed from my father in law (bulldozer and track hoe) were in the neighborhood of 5-6 gallons per hour. Granted these machines were mostly under load, but that's all I have to compare against from my own personal experience of offroad diesels.

Just wondering if 2 GPH for my little NH is typical for a 4 cyl non turbo diesel under these conditions or if other owner/operators out there have similar observations to share. At ~$8 per hour to operate, that's not all that bad,...right?

I have a DK45HST (45 HP) and i reciently found that it took me 6 gal of fuel to plow roads for 2 hours at about 1500 rpm.

other than that, i really havnt tracked it. I only did this to see what i was actually spending on fuel while i plowed the roads to see if i was making any $$$ doint the work. My old JD870 (28 HP) would use 10 gal of fuel every 8 hours.

 

[jenkinsph]

. In that time I've consumed ~13 gallons over 26 hrs.

Just wondering if 2 GPH for my little NH is typical for a 4 cyl non turbo diesel under these conditions or if other owner/operators out there have similar observations to share. At ~$8 per hour to operate, that's not all that bad,...right?

According to what you posted, 13gallons/26hours is .5 gals/hour average. More at $2.00 per hour sounds pretty cheap to me.

 

[bucktaker]

i only wish my new L5740 kubota would get better have been really running low <2200 rpm but seem to be doing 3.5gph uggg

Maybe when its broken in

 

[PioneerMan]

Yeah I was wondering about the math there. I have a 4320 deere, and although I don't track it, seems pretty similar. I think I could burn a gal an hr if working really hard, and under half gal/hr moving stuff around at 2000rpm or less. I think Nebraska tests run several loads and post fuel burn. A very good resource if you haven't read it yet...

 

[PioneerMan]

Yeah I guess now that I think about it, more like 1-2 gal/hr

 

[pak7819]

well what do you know,...i went backwards with the conversion. .5 gal per hour sounds better to me!

 

[MHarryE]

i only wish my new L5740 kubota would get better have been really running low <2200 rpm but seem to be doing 3.5gph uggg

Maybe when its broken in

That's about what my L5740 uses when I was plowing, risking, and hauling big bales. I checked the engine spec sheet and it says 3.7 gpm at full power 2700 rpm. Fortunately most of my work is loader, brush hogging, blading, and gathering up bales where it uses a lot less. Our Deere 7730 uses a lot less fuel per acre plowing or cultivating, but we have some small twisty fields you can hardly turn the Deere with its 6 bottom plow around in so I muck around just for fun - they are fields the deer hit hard anyway but they keep the deer out of the better, more open fields where they do more costly damage.

 

[wcampbell47]

I have had a 21hp B7510 five years now. The most fuel consuming work is mowing heavy grass - approaching about 1 gph. The rest of the light work such as moving dirt, spraying etc I only had to put fuel in every two weeks - never more than 5 gals.

The 32hp B3200 is using more fuel. The B75 is 3 cyl while the B32 is 4 cyl. I'm thinking I am using 1 gph moving dirt. I also drag a 5' land plane. I'm only running at about 1500-1600 rpms unless mowing.

 

[blueriver]

My Montana 43 hp uses 1.25 gallons per hour ... thats at 2500 rpm. My Branson 55 hp uses 2.5 gallons per hour at 2500 rpm.

I am a farmer rocket scientist ... the Montana has about a 14 gallon tank and the branson about 24 gallons when they are close to empty I quess the gallons and estimate the time to get the actual estimated GPH.