OP
Hysyde
Gold Member
What forum is that? I love this site, but I've been trying to find another one which leaned a little more heavily towards larger ag tractors.
Older large tractors
- Thread starter Hysyde
- Start date
- Views: 13040
Wannafish
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2003
- Messages
- 369
- Tractor
- 4010 JD Cut, 4020 JD, shovels, rakes, and implements of destruction
"On another ag forum like this, a yonger fellow asked if it would work to hook up his disc conditioner mower behind the 250 hp Cat tracked tractor his dad had so he could use the air conditioner to mow with...."
It seems to me he would flatten an awful lot of hay with those tracks before the mower had a chance to cut it.
Hey! More seat time! Mow, wait 3-4 days for it to stand back up and mow again /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
It seems to me he would flatten an awful lot of hay with those tracks before the mower had a chance to cut it.
Hey! More seat time! Mow, wait 3-4 days for it to stand back up and mow again /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
slowzuki
Elite Member
- Joined
- Sep 19, 2003
- Messages
- 4,100
- Location
- New Brunswick, Canada
- Tractor
- Kubota L5030 HSTC, MF 5455, Kubota M120, Allis Chalmers 7010
Maybe I haven't looked at enough of them but I'd swear some articulates don't have PTO's. I think I've even seen one with no 3 point hitch, just a wall of hydraulic couplers and a HUGE drawbar.
Robert_in_NY
Super Member
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2001
- Messages
- 8,552
- Location
- Silver Creek, NY
- Tractor
- Case-IH Farmall 45A, Kubota M8540 Narrow, New Holland TN 65, Bobcat 331, Ford 1920, 1952 John Deere M, Allis Chalmers B, Bombardier Traxter XT, Massey Harris 81RC and a John Deere 3300 combine, Cub Cadet GT1554
Robert_in_NY
Super Member
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2001
- Messages
- 8,552
- Location
- Silver Creek, NY
- Tractor
- Case-IH Farmall 45A, Kubota M8540 Narrow, New Holland TN 65, Bobcat 331, Ford 1920, 1952 John Deere M, Allis Chalmers B, Bombardier Traxter XT, Massey Harris 81RC and a John Deere 3300 combine, Cub Cadet GT1554
Not all 4wd's come with 3pt or pto but it is an option. Even if it doesn't have a pto you can get the hydrualic pto to run off the remotes.
Robert_in_NY
Super Member
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2001
- Messages
- 8,552
- Location
- Silver Creek, NY
- Tractor
- Case-IH Farmall 45A, Kubota M8540 Narrow, New Holland TN 65, Bobcat 331, Ford 1920, 1952 John Deere M, Allis Chalmers B, Bombardier Traxter XT, Massey Harris 81RC and a John Deere 3300 combine, Cub Cadet GT1554
When mowing hay you are cutting hay you have not driven over. The only hay you drive over is the first trip around the field. The main concern with the Cat for cutting hay is that on sharp turns it would tear up some ground. If I recall the field the poster was cutting (his name online is racinfarmer) was going to be turned over in the spring anyway so it made no difference. The other issue during that discussion was that disc bines companies recommend you use a cab tractor while mowing in case you hit a stone or a blade breaks. The cab will help to protect you from something flying out of the mower.
art
Super Member
Don't mean to burst the bubble here but the main reason for the low resale value on articulate tractors is lack of demand from professional full time farmers to buy anything used! They realize that if they are farming they are not in the repair business. They want them up and running without downtime. Cavitation is not in Ford engines but poor quality forgings! They don't have wet sleeves nor dry but are parent bore blocks.
Egon
Epic Contributor
Cavitation is not in Ford engines but poor quality forgings!
Remember when cavitation and special antifreeze was unheard of. Seems it all started with some faulty castings and then got blamed on cavitation.
Egon
Remember when cavitation and special antifreeze was unheard of. Seems it all started with some faulty castings and then got blamed on cavitation.
Egon
slowzuki
Elite Member
- Joined
- Sep 19, 2003
- Messages
- 4,100
- Location
- New Brunswick, Canada
- Tractor
- Kubota L5030 HSTC, MF 5455, Kubota M120, Allis Chalmers 7010
Robert,
I don't have a hydro swing so I guess I'm stuck in thinking I can only get about 1 ft wider before I'm driving on uncut hay.
I can only think about the hydraulic pto from an engineers perpective and it is so wasteful when transmitting the amount of power a baler needs! Using that cat to bale with is probably costing more per bale is fuel and wear on the machine than you can sell the hay for!
Ken
I don't have a hydro swing so I guess I'm stuck in thinking I can only get about 1 ft wider before I'm driving on uncut hay.
I can only think about the hydraulic pto from an engineers perpective and it is so wasteful when transmitting the amount of power a baler needs! Using that cat to bale with is probably costing more per bale is fuel and wear on the machine than you can sell the hay for!
Ken
Wannafish
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2003
- Messages
- 369
- Tractor
- 4010 JD Cut, 4020 JD, shovels, rakes, and implements of destruction
I maybe wrong (and I usually am) but if you hook the disc mower up to the center (drawbar) of that monster you are bound to run over SOME of the hay since the mower was not built to handle that type of width...or be cutting awful narrow passes! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
And I'd be running over the windrow with the track pulling either my 24T or my round baler if hooked to the center of the track-tor (Did I just coin a new phrase???)
Either way, my fingers were itching to type something. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
And I'd be running over the windrow with the track pulling either my 24T or my round baler if hooked to the center of the track-tor (Did I just coin a new phrase???)
Either way, my fingers were itching to type something. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif