For those ignorant folks who say subcompact are toys.

[Gary Fowler]

It obviously has about the same HP as the original. It is pulling a square baler and that takes plenty of HP just to get it turning.

 

[4get gto]

I guess I'll continue this thread with stupidity, as I fail to see how putting a 13hp china engine in an old Massey farm tractor makes it a subcompact tractor... lol

SR

And putting a small block Chevy in a Cadet makes smarter..? Lol...

 

[CADplans]

Check out this vintage 13 hp tractor...

The only problem with that tractor is fuel consumption, and engine life,,

Sure, that engine will rake hay for a few days,, then you will be looking for a replacement engine,, BTDT,,

The engine originally in that tractor was designed for 20+ years of daily hard use,,
Not so with the little air cooled engine,,

 

[cdaigle430]

This is meant to be a fun thread lol. I call it a subcompact because the only thing big is the transmission and rear tires. This guy has more videos one even running a hay baler.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It obviously has about the same HP as the original. It is pulling a square baler and that takes plenty of HP just to get it turning.

Aren't you forgetting about torque????

SR

 

[rangerfredbob]

Torque gets it going, horsepower keeps it going... those guys are gearing the small engine to the moon to get a reasonable horsepower out of it compared to the ancient gasser that made 20hp at 1600rpm. I'm not going to do the actual math, but horsepower=torque(in pound feet)*rpm/5252, so to get that horsepower at 1600rpm (it's been a while since I've looked, I think the IH A and maybe IH M are rated around that speed) it takes a lot more torque than it does at the 3600rpm small engines are rated at anymore. That said, gearing the engines down the equation does work in reverse with leverage so it can put out the torque because of the horsepower it has at the speed it is running... so a 2:1 reduction would double the torque available.

It's an interesting concept, personally I'd want to keep a standard type clutch instead of a centrifugal, and I'd be adding some muffling to those things, that was obnoxious and I wasn't even on the thing!

 

[RickB]

This is meant to be a fun thread lol. .

Having fun by calling folks ignorant reinforces your place on my ignore list. Sadly I had to look to see what the fuss was about.
My bad.

 

[Tomtint]

It beats the rake and shovel.

 

[BrokenTrack]

Torque gets it going, horsepower keeps it going... those guys are gearing the small engine to the moon to get a reasonable horsepower out of it compared to the ancient gasser that made 20hp at 1600rpm. I'm not going to do the actual math, but horsepower=torque(in pound feet)*rpm/5252, so to get that horsepower at 1600rpm (it's been a while since I've looked, I think the IH A and maybe IH M are rated around that speed) it takes a lot more torque than it does at the 3600rpm small engines are rated at anymore. That said, gearing the engines down the equation does work in reverse with leverage so it can put out the torque because of the horsepower it has at the speed it is running... so a 2:1 reduction would double the torque available.

It's an interesting concept, personally I'd want to keep a standard type clutch instead of a centrifugal, and I'd be adding some muffling to those things, that was obnoxious and I wasn't even on the thing!

There is also power curve to contend with as well. Sure, an engine might operate in a wide range of speed (500 to 3000 rpm), but there is a very narrow window where power is made. On a gasoline engine, that power band is quite a bit wider, but on a diesel engine it is really narrow.

Just because something can be done, does not mean it should be done.

 

[cdaigle430]

wow, always somebody in the crowd. There is some truth to what I labeled the thread though. I have a subcompact and many have said its a toy not a tractor. Many debates on here about it. That being said form my experience, if you call a subcompact a toy and not a tractor then that is in fact an ignorant statement. I have said enough about it now because its a ridiculously immature argument. I know my tractor is not a toy and there is nothing anyone can say or do about it.