3130 GST/HST owners- Get a Hormone!

[5030]

Like I said in the above post, I probably shift gears more times in a year than 2 people do in a lifetime. Putting it in "Drive" or stepping on a hydro pedal sure is a lot more convenient. besides, the older you get, the more "shiftless" you get!!!!!

 

[rjsmit1]

I don't think that hydro versus clutch has anything to do with political correctness. It is simply a matter of functionality. I drove a gear tractor for 3.5 years around the horse farm and and had great experiences feeling very manly pushing the clutch and stirring the shift lever around, but it just isn't productive to do that when you are doing stuff that requires constant directional change - manure moving, mowing around the trees that line my pastures, etc. Nothing wimpy about a Hydro and I guaronderntee you that I know how to drive a gear tractor - so my choice doesn't have anything to do with "I can't do it". A hydro is just good common sense if you ask me.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Man - you are soooooo not politically correct. You can't call hydro owner/drivers wimps (or the equivalent) just because they can't figure out how a clutch works....it's just too mean. But it's probably okay, because if they go to kick you in the butt, their left leg is too weak to kick with and it probably wouldn't hold their weight if they kicked you with their right leg.

Seriously, I agree with you comments - I like tractors to be tractors. My wife drives our tractors (which have all been gear drive, although the Kioti has a mechanical shuttle, which I really like). She drove the Belarus that we had quite a bit, and if there was ever a contraption with a more confusing amalgam of levers and knobs, I haven't seen it. All of our vehicles, except the '75 Ford truck, are all stickshift. I've driven a couple of HSTs and they just didn't do it for me.

I think, too, that I've finally figured out what an advantage of HST is. It comes from having too weak of a tractor, HP wise. With either the Belarus or Kioti (57 and 45 HP, respectively), they could be idling between 500 and 800 RPM and still easily pull full trailers of tobacco, hay or junk up hills while still in a relatively high gear, and thus you can go slow but still have power. If you need to speed up, just bump the throttle and faster you go, bump it back to slow down. With HST, you get the advantage of running your engine 2000-3000 RPM, whatever the prime powerband is, as you poke around with your foot on the rocker peddle.

In conclusion, good post and I hope everybody else thinks it's as funny as I did. )</font>

 

[_RaT_]

Holy Socks icat, man, thats tough to deal with. I mean here it gets to 100 degrees on occasion but quite dry at about 30%, but a few weeks ago it was in the 90's and humid, about 80% humidity, even the shade is not comfortable. Once, some time ago someone here said there is no difference in heat whether it's dry or humid, he joked and said, "at least it's a dry heat". Oh man, I'm a wimp, it's huge. I think I've become spoiled. Dry climate, HST, power steering, hydraulic loader, I'm no man to be sure if thats how it's being measured today /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif, spoiled rotten baby is more like it. But hey, it's fun and I like it. Rat...

 

[DK35vince]

My going with a gear tractor had less to do with being Manly and more to do with being a Cheapskate !! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[icat]

Only 30% humidity! RaT - I think I'd have trouble breathing in that climate! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I like the "feeling" I get from physical labor - the sense of accomplishment, the pride in the way the land looks after I work it. But with the heat in Texas you need all the help you can get - give me the power steering, the HST, and anything else you can think of. I want to live to enjoy all the effort I'm putting in! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

By the way guys and gals - all the Huisache trees in my sig photo. They're gone. Me and the SQ600 went to town the last several weekends. Got me some clear pasture now (well, there does seem to be a lot of "large" toothpics laying around). /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[_RaT_]

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif spoken like an honest man! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[5030]

DK35Vince:

10-4 to that buddrow. Keep the rubber side down and the shiny side up. Hammer down and don't forget to watch for the full grown bears!!!!!

 

[5030]

Frank:

I know from reading your posts that you ain't no youngster either. A cab is the best thing since sliced bread when you are out in the below zero weather blowing, plowing or moving snow with the FEL.

This winter was the first winter I had the 5030 and always before when I had to use the blower, I'd have to put on my snowmobile suit, a balaclava, my "grumpy old men" hat, snowmobile gloves and then go to work. After about 5 minutes, I looked like the "abomadible snowman" (I think I spelled it right). With the cab, I start the tractor, turn on the heater blower, come back in the house and finish my cereal. When I'm done I go out to a warm tractor and do my thing. WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!

 

[rdam]

I just read the original post again for laughs.

"battle stations of pumping hydraulics and throbbing diesels"

That cracks me up!

 

[_RaT_]

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