Creeping forward with a shuttle shift

[willysmb]

I am buying a tractor soon. I have driven HST's before but don't have much first hand experience with a shuttle shift or power shuttle. Long term I plan to do quite a bit of field work and things where I would prefer to have a shuttle shift. I also plan to snowplow my driveway and other around the house tasks from time to time.

My question is how hard is it to creep forward with a shuttle shift. Lets say I am a foot from my garage door and I want to creep forward that foot to put the FEL down and pull snow back. I have driven plenty of manual transmission vehicles. Would creeping forward that foot be similar to driving a manual transmission vehicle where you just let off the clutch a bit or does a tractor drive differently to where it would be hard to do that.

Thanks

 

[dickfoster]

I am buying a tractor soon. I have driven HST's before but don't have much first hand experience with a shuttle shift or power shuttle. Long term I plan to do quite a bit of field work and things where I would prefer to have a shuttle shift. I also plan to snowplow my driveway and other around the house tasks from time to time.

My question is how hard is it to creep forward with a shuttle shift. Lets say I am a foot from my garage door and I want to creep forward that foot to put the FEL down and pull snow back. I have driven plenty of manual transmission vehicles. Would creeping forward that foot be similar to driving a manual transmission vehicle where you just let off the clutch a bit or does a tractor drive differently to where it would be hard to do that.

Thanks

Petty much the same. To inch forward or backward for hooking up a backhoe, FEL etc. have one foot on the clutch and the other on the brake. Lowest gear of course.

 

[TripleR]

With my M8540 hydraulic shuttle shift, I won't even try something like that; can be done riding the brakes, but not worth trying for me.

 

[holeycow]

With my tractors of various standard configurations, i could come flying in in any number of gears and then inch up to anything. As long as the brakes work, that is. Just like a car.

 

[holeycow]

This rubbish of HST being "more precise" is just that; rubbish.

 

[Ford850]

That's why it's called an "inching pedal". It works great for me.

 

[TripleR]

This rubbish of HST being "more precise" is just that; rubbish.

Not on our tractors it isn't; we have regular HST, old style crash boxes, synchronized shuttle, non-synchronized shuttle and hydraulic shuttle. Our geared, synch and non synch shuttles can be very precise but not our hydraulic shuttle.

 

[holeycow]

Bummer. Kind of a poor excuse for a chore tractor that hydraulic shuttle. You can't operate it like a regular clutch tractor when necessary?

 

[MrFoPow]

1st gear low range is sllllloooooowwww with my gearing.

 

[Gordon Gould]

1st gear low range is sllllloooooowwww with my gearing.

Same with mine. I creep up on stuff all the time. Just part of operating a tractor. But mine is a manual shuttle. Don't see why a hydraulic shuttle would be different but don't know.

gg