possible with hydro?????

[tpost]

<font color="blue"> In my estimation, the only thing a gear tractor does better than a hydro is pull a plow... </font>

I know of nothing that has proved a hydro cannot pull a plow all day the same as geared transmission and not hold up as well as geared tractor.

 

[NHeuro]

I don't pull such a trailers, but the only thing i know is: i love my 16*16 more as my previous hydro on my tc 45 da.
It was for me a chose between a
-tc 45 da
-tce 50 + cab + A/C
so it was a difficult chose thought i because i've a lot of mowing work and a lot of trees. But my decision was to buy the tce 50 and i've never regretted it. Now i use my zero-turn for mowing around my trees and than straight lines in my cool cab with nice music. I love this more than a lot of hydro work around my (low trees) and put the cruise control on the straight lines. and i have no loader work so i love the 16*16.

 

[NHeuro]

BTW: an other point why i've chosen the tce was the quality, i know a tc isn't bad, it is also a good tractor but with my tc 45 da i had a lot of problems and a friend of us with a tce had 1 problem with his tce after 1800h a locked 4x4 stick (and changing oil + filters)

 

[CT_Tree_Guy]

<font color="blue">I know of nothing that has proved a hydro cannot pull a plow all day the same as geared transmission and not hold up as well as geared tractor. </font>

I don't know if this thread and others (New L5030) prove that a hydro won't hold up to plowing all day, but I have a Kub L5030HST and I wouldn't dream of doing it, at least not with a CUT. There might be bigger tractors with hydros that are specifically designed with this type of use in mind, including improved hydraulic oil cooling, but there is a heck of a lot of "conventional wisdom" that says you're way better offer with a gear tractor for day-in, day-out ground engaging. Plus, you're losing 3-5% of HP with a hydro, but in a farming situation, that additional operating expense gets deducted right from your bottom line. The hydro oil just gets way too hot with that kind of usage IMHO, close to 210 F. on my tractor. I'm adding an external oil cooler, and I don't even do ground engaging work. Sorry to offer the opposing viewpoint, I just felt I needed to.

John D.

 

[JerryG]

Get ready for the eggs.

 

[brewdog]

My ford/NH came standard with a hydro oil cooler mounting directly in front of the radiator. I believe that heavy mowing is just about as hard on a tractor as a ground engagement implement. I've run mine all day long and the oil cooler handles it fine.

 

[RickB]

Believe anything you wish. No load is more abusive to a hydrostatic transmission than ground engaging implemente with a high draft load.

 

[slowzuki]

I love pulling the baler! The hydro is mucho sweet when baling.

 

[JerryG]

<font color="blue">No load is more abusive to a hydrostatic transmission than ground engaging implemente with a high draft load. </font>
Very very correct.

 

[brewdog]

I haven't seen any instruction manual warnings that say "don't plow with a Hydro transmission." The manufacturers expect you to use them for plowing, they're tractors.