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Say a 10-12-15-20' mowr on a gasser tractor? If so, post year / make / model / hp of tractor and specs ont he mower.. any comments on the combination are also welcome.

Economy? (grin )

Soundguy
 
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How many people are still using big gasser tractors for regular farm work ?
Around here you see people using gassers up to about 40 HP. Everything above that I see working are diesel. It costs me about the same to run my 40 hp gas IH vs my friend running his turboed 5000 diesel Ford. And his ford runs a big batwing hog.
Except when it is very cold diesel trumps gassers.
Ben
 
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Most of the big gassers have burned up around here lol As they get old they tend to leak and get poor maintenance.

The little MF 135 my neighbours dad has uses a lot of fuel it seems. The governor acts funny too as I'm used to diesel tractors. Pulled me out of the mud last night then we pulled his daughters tractor out. I had tried for an hour the night before and got myself stuck when leaving.

Soundguy said:
Say a 10-12-15-20' mowr on a gasser tractor? If so, post year / make / model / hp of tractor and specs ont he mower.. any comments on the combination are also welcome.

Economy? (grin )

Soundguy
 
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Soundguy said:
Say a 10-12-15-20' mowr on a gasser tractor? If so, post year / make / model / hp of tractor and specs ont he mower.. any comments on the combination are also welcome.

Economy? (grin )

Soundguy

Was their ever a gasser that could pull a 20' bat wing in heavy grass? Best i can recall is my Granddaddys JD 4020 with diesels came in about the early 70's, maybe late 60'. I think there was some inline gassers just after the poppers. I was to young to remember much more.
 
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Deere made lots of 4020 gassers, and I've heard they built just a very few 4230 gassers. Oliver built loads of gassers in higher HP models, IH 806/856 gassers aren't hard to find. They'll handle a batwing, but don't look for economy in any shape or form. Biggest Ford gas tractor I can recall seeing was a 5000.

On the 135 Massey gassers vs. diesels, the 150 Massey used the same engines. The gassers were gas hogs, and the 150 diesel owned the Nebraska test fuel economy record for ages.

Did get to see the final minutes of an Allis Chalmers 190XT diesel running on gas one time. It wasn't a pretty sight. :( (Neighbor's son told us it wouldn't hurt a thing. His dad made him regret that remark.)
 
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RobJ said:
Was their ever a gasser that could pull a 20' bat wing in heavy grass? Best i can recall is my Granddaddys JD 4020 with diesels came in about the early 70's, maybe late 60'. I think there was some inline gassers just after the poppers. I was to young to remember much more.

20'.. dunno.. not in the ford line i don't think... I can't think of anything OEM that was bigger than the 5000 gas. I know there were some 100hp v8 conversions for smaller fords... but those weren't bushhogging machines of rthe big mowers.

I was guessing big olivers or big IH.. anyone got hp specs on them?

I can just imagine the fuel economy of a gasser pulling a 15' mower..

Soundguy
 
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Ford submitted a 6000 gasser and a 6000 diesel to Nebraska for testing in 1961. On the 10 hour drawbar test at 75% pull, the gasser developed 7.66 horsepower hours per gallon of fuel while the diesel produced 11.68 horsepower hours per gallon. Quite a difference! The gasser had the 223 cu. in. 6 cylinder engine, which could be found in Ford trucks and cars of the day (no doubt modified for tractor use). The diesel had a 242 cu. in. 6 cylinder plant. I never saw one of these big Fords, but I remember seeing ads for them in the farm magazines we got when I was a kid.
 
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Deere 4010 G 80HP, Oliver 1800 G 70 HP, Ford 6000 G 67 HP, Massey Ferguson Super 90 G 68 HP, Oliver 1800 series B G 81 HP, Deere 4020 G89 HP, Minneapolis Moline M670 G 73 HP, Allis Chalmers 190XT G 89 HP, Case 941 G 86 HP, Massey Ferguson 1100 G 90 HP, Oliver 1750 G 80 HP, Minneapolis Moline (White) G950 97 HP, Not finding the Nebraska test data on IH 806/856. (Should be in the 90 to 95 HP range) Average fuel economy is generally 65% on down to 50% of comparable deisels.
 
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herringchoker said:
Ford submitted a 6000 gasser and a 6000 diesel to Nebraska for testing in 1961. On the 10 hour drawbar test at 75% pull, the gasser developed 7.66 horsepower hours per gallon of fuel while the diesel produced 11.68 horsepower hours per gallon. Quite a difference! The gasser had the 223 cu. in. 6 cylinder engine, which could be found in Ford trucks and cars of the day (no doubt modified for tractor use). The diesel had a 242 cu. in. 6 cylinder plant. I never saw one of these big Fords, but I remember seeing ads for them in the farm magazines we got when I was a kid.

I'd love to see a 6000 ford gasser.

Soundguy
 
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The 6600 was supposedly available with a 256 c.i.d. 4 cyl. gasser, 1975-1981. Info is from "A Guide to Ford, Fordson, and New Holland Tractors 1907-1999". I've never seen one though.
 

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