Need advice on my kioti

[Egon]

Chances are your tractor is operating in a normal manner. ( If it acts properly when working off road you should have no problems ) Just have a little more patience. Might want to check hst oil level?

 

[K man]

Like mentioned before I have no problem working with the tractor. It just annoys me when going up hills I mean these hills are very steep and long. Unless someone is sitting in my seat at the time of going up hill then they would see what I mean. I don't think it is the tractor, the problem is the hills. I don't go down off my property very often but when I do it just irritates me of how slow it is at climbing. I have lots of patience just not use to HST power compared to gear drive.

 

[radios1]

Like mentioned before I have no problem working with the tractor. It just annoys me when going up hills I mean these hills are very steep and long. Unless someone is sitting in my seat at the time of going up hill then they would see what I mean. I don't think it is the tractor, the problem is the hills. I don't go down off my property very often but when I do it just irritates me of how slow it is at climbing. I have lots of patience just not use to HST power compared to gear drive.

the engine RPM should bog down if the HST is operating properly, if it don't , then there's a big loss of HP. in the HST you really can't compare the HST transmission to a geared transmission for efficiency.. note: 2 combative members are on my ignore list so I don't have to see their nonsense!..

 

[K man]

Thanks, appreciate all replies to my thread. I will have to travel up and down these hills more often so I can get use to the HST.
Also forgot to mention my 2014 CK 30 has only 73 hours on it so it shows how much I use it lol.

 

[s219]

I don't know of any HST tractor that does well on hills in high range. High is meant for flat roads and transport only. Work, which includes hill climbing, is for M and L.

 

[atsah]

Maybe post some pictures of said hills..

Radios1 is extremely helpful, coyote you need to calm down and find a better way to talk to people, you come across in a way that is very disrespectful, no need for it at all..

 

[DK35vince]

that's what I was thinking too, there is a big loss of horsepower somewhere!.. it makes you wonder how that tractor could do any useful work, if it can't even climb a hill easily!..

You have obviously never run a commercial backhoe, highlift, chipper, paver, Etc.
They don't do well when traveling on hills in high range/or gears either, low range they are brutes.

 

[atsah]

Depends on the tractor, I climb some pretty big hills with my little Massey with a 500lb weight box and a 5ft oversized bucket with tires loaded with rim guard in high range no problem. I had two NH TC45DA tractors that had a hard time climbing the same hills in high range. Not all hydro's are equal.

 

[LouNY]

I don't see how one can say much about the question without a lot more info;
I just had a 3 mile run with my 80 hp with just a brush hog on the back, some of the hills it made in "C" range and 4th gear, 1 needed 3rd and one I go from 4th right to 2nd.
Last week comeing home with a tractor, chopper and loaded self unloading wagon of corn silage with 225+ hp and an 18 speed powershift I had to drop down to 12th gear for one grade and 15th for two others.

It all depends on the hill and load and the speed and the gear or hydro speed selection.

 

[hawkeye08]

Someone mentioned about reduced power (not sure what brand) being caused by the 3pt all the way up and something out of adjustment so it was trying to go higher than it can and was robbing power. Make sure that is not your problem (just lower the 3pt a little so it is not all the way up). Good luck, Some of my hills are steep enough that I bog down in low range, have to remember to let up on the go pedal to keep rpms up..