Shaneard
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Nov 18, 2016
- Messages
- 1,345
- Location
- Southern Virginia
- Tractor
- Ford 4630, Two IH 140's, John Deere A
I bet 95 percent of them bought a bigger tractor because the FEL wouldn’t lift enough, or the tractor wouldn’t pull/push hard enough or was otherwise too small. Not because it didn’t have enough hp. If you need more hp you can go a little slower and get the job done. If you have a load that can’t be pulled or lifted by your tractor no matter how slow you go it’s not going to do it.
Let me put it a different way. I'll use Ford as an example even though I have a GMC. You buy a Ford F250 with a Powerstroke to pull your 12K pound trailer. Works great until you need to pull more weight so you have to upgrade to a F350, F450, or F550 but guess what, they all have the same HP Powerstroke under the hood. When you need to pull more weight with a tractor or lift more, you don't trade for a bigger tractor with more load capacity and the same HP engine. Tractors sizes get more HP the bigger the tractor, unlike a truck. People want to lift more with their FEL, they need more HP is what it boils down to is all I'm saying.
When people are buying a tractor and say "I need to pull a 9 shank ripper" they don't say I need a tractor that weighs X, they say each shanks requires X amount of HP and go from there. Like I said before, weight can be added or removed at any time.