7060 fuel economy

[bucagator]

I have been demoing a 7060 the last couple of days and I have a question for the experts here. I like most everything about the tractor but it seems to use a lot of fuel. I am getting about an hour per gallon with it. Is this normal? I seem to get a lot more from my old Massey 1100 I'm looking to replace.

 

[DavesTractor]

You must not be working it too hard. We did a test on a 7520 (most similar to a 8560) and at 75% load it used a little over 3 gallons per hour. Generally when I see fuel rate sort of data, it is calculated at a steady 75% of maximum power. It requires a dyno to keep a load steady for testing.

A rule of thumb would be 1 gallon per hour on 25HP at 75% load, 2 gallons/hour for a 50HP, 3 gallons/hour for 75HP. If you are just doing loader work at low rpm, you will use much less fuel.

These are rough guidelines, sort of like saying a typical diesel pickup gets 18 MPG on the road and a typical compact car gets 30 mpg on the road. It varies, but gives you a rough idea.

 

[yanmars]

My 4510 does no better than that. For that size tractor that seems quite good IMO.

 

[bucagator]

My 4510 does no better than that. For that size tractor that seems quite good IMO.

I am finding that out. I guess I have been spoiled by the old perkins in my Massey's. When I hear of JD's using 3+ per hour I cringe. An extra 2 gallons per hour for 5000 hours at $4.50 a gallon would be $45,000! Am I figuring something wrong here?

 

[kootch88]

You must not be working it too hard. We did a test on a 7520 (most similar to a 8560) and at 75% load it used a little over 3 gallons per hour. Generally when I see fuel rate sort of data, it is calculated at a steady 75% of maximum power. It requires a dyno to keep a load steady for testing. A rule of thumb would be 1 gallon per hour on 25HP at 75% load, 2 gallons/hour for a 50HP, 3 gallons/hour for 75HP. If you are just doing loader work at low rpm, you will use much less fuel. These are rough guidelines, sort of like saying a typical diesel pickup gets 18 MPG on the road and a typical compact car gets 30 mpg on the road. It varies, but gives you a rough idea.

When I was doing some blue water sailing we always used 75% of max rpm as our guideline for fuel consumption as well. Pretty consistently you could figure a half gallon per hour, per 10hp. It was an important number to know given the fact that a fuel stop was as much as 8 days even crossing the Gulf from the Yucatan peninsula. And when crossing to Ireland you had the possibility of facing 30 days from the last stop in Nova Scotia, if you took the long way north from the Gulf anyway. What surprised me was how consistently those numbers held true, regardless if it was a Volvo, yanmar or universal. When idling and charging the batteries you would use much less, I mean running the screw.

 

[Bigfoot62]

I am finding that out. I guess I have been spoiled by the old perkins in my Massey's. When I hear of JD's using 3+ per hour I cringe. An extra 2 gallons per hour for 5000 hours at $4.50 a gallon would be $45,000! Am I figuring something wrong here?

Your math is correct, but I'm not sure that your factors are anywhere close.
Off road diesel is running about $3.50/gallon here, not $4.50
I don't think JD, or any other brand tractor of the same HP, is going to use 3x the fuel as that 7060.
I would be willing to bet that only a handful of members here have ever put 5000 hours on a tractor. I would guess that the vast majority have never even put 500 hours on one.
Just for the record, my 30+ year old Ford has about 2000 hours on it. Both of my other tractors have 500 and change. But, I have a 110 acre farm, with half of that in hay meadows.

 

[Turbo Goat]

For what its worth, my 6010 drinks about 1.5 to 2 gallons an hour under load. That load is typically hogging 5-8 foot tall grass with an 8 foot rotary mower.

 

[bindian]

My 6520, which is a 2007 older version of your 7060, drinks about 1.5-2 gallons an hour running the backhoe at full throttle.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bucagator]

My 6520, which is a 2007 older version of your 7060, drinks about 1.5-2 gallons an hour running the backhoe at full throttle.
hugs, Brandi

I ended up putting right at 31 hours on the demo tractor and used 35 gallons of fuel. Most of the hours were mowing with a 7' Rears flail in heavy grass/brush and a 6' Howard rotovator turning in our farming plots for the summer. I was impressed with the tractor in many ways and I ended up buying it. Thanks for the feedback everyone. :thumbsup:

 

[DavesTractor]

I ended up putting right at 31 hours on the demo tractor and used 35 gallons of fuel. Most of the hours were mowing with a 7' Rears flail in heavy grass/brush and a 6' Howard rotovator turning in our farming plots for the summer. I was impressed with the tractor in many ways and I ended up buying it. Thanks for the feedback everyone. :thumbsup:

Barely over 1 gallon/hour. Pretty good really, my 27HP Exmark mower uses more than that just mowing the lawn. I wish it had a diesel in it.

We have a little air-cooled Lombardini single cylinder engine in an orchard lift. I swear I put only two gallons a year in it, and only because I feel bad not giving it some fresh fuel occasionally. It just putty-puts away and barely sips any fuel at all. Less than a quart an hour I would guess, yet it also is just idling under hardly any load most of the time.