sd455dan
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- Joined
- Oct 23, 2012
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- North Idaho
- Tractor
- Rhino 554, Ford 550 TLB (JD X500, MTD, Gilson riding mowers) Ford 3000-Sold
My 03 3500 with the 6 speed manual 3.73 gear has done as well as 24.4 a few times, but that was empty hiway trips and definitely keeping it under 70 mph. Full tank to empty re fueled at the same station/pump and hand calculated.I have a 2007 5.9. Like yours it is the common rail engine and I get about the same, occasionally 20. But my 1999 24 valve Cummins did average 20 mpg.
The lie o meter read over 28 MPG on those trips. It has only done that well in the winter/cold outside temps Winter diesel?
Average driving and short trip around town
High teens.
The wife's same year virtually identical 2500 with the auto gets about 3-4 MPG less but her truck has half the miles on it and is the standard 245 HP not the HO Cummins , maybe not loosened up yet or the Factory tune difference.
ps. It would not surprise me to hear of a Branson 2515 properly ballasted unloading "Safely" a 1 ton pallet from a pickup bed.
That would be a real world difference to a single tractor owner who needed to get the job done.
Have not seen it Yet , but would not surprise me. Like others posted medium lift heights (weight lifted)are also "generally" higher when the full height at pin specs are higher.
Some things not mentioned in this thread on the 25 HP Branson
Front axle Hubs are mounted in double shear. Most other brands Normally go above 50 HP before building that way and also the vertical height of the transmission case.
A tall transmission case is more common on utility tractors and yeah that causes a hump in the tractor floor, but imo all else being equal stronger way to design the center section spine for a tractor that will see heavy FEL lifting and or backhoe use- Even compared to say the parent company's TYM models. Take the rear axle, 3 point and transmission bellhousing section
8 lug rear axle Not six and then just Look at the rear axle /3 point.
Some things that I Hope TYM keeps and does not chose to "improve" by dropping Branson's own design and going to TYMs
Flame suit on.
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