Any news on gas engine CUTS?

[94BULLITT]

Since the average annual hours on a CUT are less than 50 (slightly more than an hour a week), I'd say probably lots and lots of folks :laughing:.

I agree with 50 hours per year. I see so many CUTs with low hours.

 

[hutchman]

I agree with 50 hours per year. I see so many CUTs with low hours.

Got about 540 hrs on my 2011 LS.

 

[hutchman]

Near me, Regular is $2.71, Premium is $3.01 and Diesel is $3.07.

Diesel around me is $2.43 at the moment.

I found it kind of interesting poking around on this site for what real world number people are reporting for various vehicles:

Browse All Cars | Fuelly

 

[AxleHub]

Do you call commercial zero turns mowing just as much grass, but at twice the ground speed a light load activity? Most of them put as many hours on a machine in a month as most SCUTS see in a year.

Aaron Z

Aczlan, my post said tall grass. I've never seen zero turns cut tall grass. Tall grass starts at 15 inches and goes upward from there. And for a 25 hp scut . . That qualifies at a solid load on the engine.

 

[paulfun9]

I sure hope that is in the right lane because otherwise they are being a danger to others on the road.
Those who were posting in that thread had long term averages (from Fuelly) in the 40-48MPG range for A4/A5 vehicles.

Aaron Z

I don't think they are in the slow lane! It seems almost every time I can get close enough to see the car holding back traffic its one of them !

At least now I know why they are doing it but its still downright annoying!

 

[buickanddeere]

I hate to bring up auto comparisons again but I can't let a comment like that stand ... there is NO straight gasser (and I'm even including those stupid little SMART cars) that can best the highway MPG of my 2002 VW Jetta TDI. Heck, I don't think there is one that can beat my 2006 TDI either so I'm tired of you spouting off how much more efficient the gasser is when it simply isn't so. If there was something out there (that wasn't as big as a pregnant roller skate) in a gasoline engine that efficient as you say I'd be driving it. I used to drive 1 1/2 hours one way to work ... I know what I'm talking about. It pains me I'm not driving an American car but cents per mile is what is important to me and I'm rolling in the vehicle that has that capability ... 13yrs old now and will still break 50MPG on highway ... speeding and AC blasting.

Per btu in , not gallon in. Apples to apples. You don't compare LP mileage in gallons to gasoline . You compare cost per hour or cost per mile.

 

[buickanddeere]

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Buickanddeere,

Have you really such a low level of common sense? There are large quantities of people investing in scuts and cuts to do real work. Your description is demeaning and inaccurate as well. 20 and 25 hp scuts mowing deep grass is not light load activity. Who invests in a fel to move a single bucket of dirt occasionally ?

And in your other post you seem oblivious that if we are using the newer shale oil more instead of Saudi oil . . the particulate levels should further decline from present.

On the other hand gasoline requirements are going to face greater epa challenges as new shale oil reduces its issues for diesel but makes no difference for gasoline. And oil prices will have a bracket of 40 to 70 per barrel while the old bracket was 60 to 115 per barrel. And China is no longer the great diesel importer it was with the "stimulation" efforts of a dozen years by China's gov't now ended.

The thread is on cuts and scuts and today more than ever these products are in greater and greater demand for use as working tractors.

#1 we have all seen and heard the predictions of crude oil prices since the early 1970's as they roller coaster up and down. When prices are climbing the graphs show $200 a barrel in a few years. The. The price of crude slumps and the new graphs show $50 crude in the same time frame that $200 had been so somberly predicted in. The market and prices do not stay down or stay up, they swing.
#2 as for those using thier CUT and SCUT at full power for hundreds of hours per year. You know that is the exception rather than the rule so quit wasting you time .

 

[buickanddeere]

You're not "getting it" at all.

The main reason to offer a gasser option in tractors would be to lower the cost of the engine in the machine. If they keep the price the same and build the engine bigger it would be a dumb move on their part. Same purchase cost, higher fuel costs, and no increase in durability.....I don't see that as a successful business model. :confused2:

The reason which you keep ignoring is cheaper gasoline per gallon and no Tier IV particulate diesel running in regen regularly due to low stack temps. Just wait for the Tier V emissions that limit CO2 . How do you propose coping with those regs ?

 

[buickanddeere]

I went 700 on one tank in my '93 Suburban last week.... but I used 39 gallons of gas! :laughing: Those older TDI's are still impressing.

Why are you talking about old pre emission vehicles and equipment ? We are talking about current 2015 equipment regulations , 2015 fuel prices Tier IV emissions and future Tier V emissions. Quit mixing oranges with the apples.
Of course in the good old days trucks between 1989 to 2006 with no and limited emissions diesels when diesel was 3/4 the price of gasoline . Of course the diesel ruled supreme.
Moving ahead to the reality of the present in 2015, it's a different set of parameters.

 

[buickanddeere]

I went 700 on one tank in my '93 Suburban last week.... but I used 39 gallons of gas! :laughing: Those older TDI's are still impressing.

It's 2015, not 1993