Buying Advice Anything to say good/bad about a Mahendra 1526 HST?

[Roger66]

Let off the pedal and give it more throttle and it will go faster up the hill.

My poor little abused lawn tractor always is at full throttle! I'll have to experiment is less pedal helps. I've always attacked the hill full throttle, full pedal & running start. Never tried less pedal. The firewood trailer is so heavy sometimes halfway up my dry paved driveway the tire just looses traction and starts to spin. I've added a lot of lead to my lawn tractor for tractor and it helps, but I really want this heavier tractor with 4WD! Hopefully before I destroy this poor little lawn tractor. The 1526 is too big for mowing my lawn, the lawn tractor is perfect for that. Plus a mid mower deck for the 1526 is serious money!

 

[cford36]

My poor little abused lawn tractor always is at full throttle! I'll have to experiment is less pedal helps. I've always attacked the hill full throttle, full pedal & running start. Never tried less pedal. The firewood trailer is so heavy sometimes halfway up my dry paved driveway the tire just looses traction and starts to spin. I've added a lot of lead to my lawn tractor for tractor and it helps, but I really want this heavier tractor with 4WD! Hopefully before I destroy this poor little lawn tractor. The 1526 is too big for mowing my lawn, the lawn tractor is perfect for that. Plus a mid mower deck for the 1526 is serious money!

My understanding of a HST is that it is a little backwards thinking. Pushing the pedal gives you more speed not power. If you need power, like in your case, less pedal. People tend to think of the HST like an automatic transmission, which it is not.

 

[bman0023]

I have seen this model and like it very much and will probably end up getting one too. I have the emax and it is agreat little tractor. I have nothing bad to say about it and it works great for me.

 

[olPete]

My 2 cents is that the only CUT I ever see in NZ is the Mahindra brand, at least locally. Farmers get them as a handy tractor to get things done that their big tractors wont look near, like cleaning out yards and around the house. Now I'm not suggesting that farmers know more than anyone else, but most of us have thousands upon thousands of hours. So thats as good a recommendation as any, if they buy them, theres not a lot wrong with them at all. If you have a yard full or NH Case or JD etc AND buy a mahindra CUT then they must have a good machine. Some of the largest tractors I've driven have been CVT and they are good as gold IMHO. Hard to be in the wrong cog if you dont have gears.. they just had two ranges one for ag work and one for transport

 

[MHarryE]

One strange thing I see in the specs. the Max 26XL HST shows 20 PTO HP, but the 1526 HST shows only 18.5 PTO HP. Both show 25.6 Engine HP. I thought these two machines had the same Mitsu 26 HP engine. It's not a huge difference, but one of the chippers I was eyeing up calls for 19 PTO HP, so the 18.5 number was bugging me. Any ideas?

Thanks

Difference is the charge pump on the hydro. It supplies oil to the hydro and pressure to the hydro control to move the swash plate. Its something the straight gear tractors don't have and it takes parasitic power. That's the reason you find a lower PTO HP rating on most hydro than on their equivalent gear counterparts despite having the same engine.

I'm thinking that it has to be because of the trans difference, 2 speed vs 3 speed. Something inside is robbing that additional power.

I really like the 1526 machines, size and capabilities are nice.

One other thing that I would like to point out, has nothing to do with the 1526. Many people say that they don't care for the Indian made Mahindra tractors and that fit and finish is sub par and sort of bare bones machines. But then when questioned about what model it is that they were looking at, it almost always ends up being one of the economy models. Of course the economy models are not as refined as the more deluxe units. I'm not saying that these deluxe units are flawless, just not as bad as what people make them out to be.

For the OP, the 1526 is a great machine, my favorite of all the 1500 series machines.

It appears they lowered the HP to get under the Tier IV norms by just rating the tractor at a lower RPM. With this all mechanical engine, you pull the throttle back a little more and I can't see why we are not back at 28 HP. AFAIK, The engine is all the same, same injector pump, same injectors, etc.

I really, really like the 1526 tractor. Very reliable, specs out nicely, and just the right size for a lot of folks.

 

[ericm979]

@Roger66 if that's a Woodmaxx 8" chipper you're considering, check youtube for videos of people running it on 19 HP tractors. There's a few, and the tractors bog down on what I'd consider relatively small material. I came to the conclusion that those chippers need significanantly more HP than the minimum to chip stuff anywhere close to the rated size. You can call Woodmaxx, they can provide more guidance on HP needed for chipping different sizes and compositions of wood.