gear vs. hydro for pulling tiller

[_RaT_]

What?

 

[JerryG]

<font color="blue">You have obviously never tried to use a 72" tiller with your 35hp tractor then! It can be done with a hydro, creeping along. With hard clay, forget it with 35hp and gears.</font>
My lowest gear is .23 mph. I can't see how that would be to fast?

 

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What? )</font>

Are you /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif ? G

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue">How many hydros were there when our FOREFATHERS plowed the fields? </font>

None. They didn't have tractors. They were lucky to have a horse, mule or ox. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[WilliamBos]

Hi,

I do know what I a talking about. Dozers have been hydro for years, didnt just hapen last week. Also, you cant compare an IVT to a hydro. But on that note, someone I know had a JDtractor with IVT, good for loader work, and transport, but for fieldwork like running a discvbine, not suited for this at all. This type of work is where gear/SS/powershift shines, and always will.

I will not own a hydro for serious work. ( plowing, discing, tilling, etc. ) Because in my opinion, they cant cut it. Especially in a compact tractor. the powerloss throught the hydro is too much in my opinon, whereas with a gear it is not as bad!!

 

[_RaT_]

I was wondering the same thing. I suppose anyone before my father could be a "forefather" but generally think of the folks that came here from Europe etc as forefathers. I should think an OX or horse would have been quite the ticket. Out here in Kalifornia I would say it was my fathers generation that was getting equipped with tractors.

 

[_RaT_]

I suppose what I do is not serious work but I do rip and disc with my L3830 hydrostatic drive tractor and it does both exceptionally well. It may not cut it but it sure rips it.

 

[_RaT_]

You've got a nice setup Jerry. I don't know if all compacts can have creepers installed.

 

[eee]

I have 1400 hundred hours on my JD 4400 so far and I flat out work the heck out of it,and I have had no hydro problems yet.
I have pulled so much that I wore out the part on my axle housing where the lower lift arms are attatched to. I had to replace both axle housings this summer,the hydro has not done anything but work for me.
I can go from forward to reverse all day and mash the pedal as hard as I can...

 

[eee]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> I will not own a hydro for serious work. ( plowing, discing, tilling, etc. ) Because in my opinion, they cant cut it. Especially in a compact tractor </font> )</font>

But a hydro holds up in a dozer ???