Using E-Hydro - Tips?

[dirtworksequip]

AKCBill, you cannot compare hystat heavy equipment to hystat cuts because they use totally different drive systems. If the cuts where setup the same as heavy equipment then you would have the ultimate in tractors. The heavy equipment systems are alot more advanced than the tractors. I own or have owned them all and the is a huge difference. Just because there is hystat heavy equipment out there doesn't make the hystat tractors good.

 

[minimax]

I run heavy equipment for a living and most trackhoes have no compter or "loadmatch" they are heavier built but not smarter! I will take a hydro over a "gear drive" any day,Like on wet muddy clay a hydro will get more done than a gear drive because you can find your traction peak before you break traction with a gear tractor you dump the clutch and can lose traction before you ever move.P.S. I have pulled out, in more than one case, 60,000 lb dump trucks with these little tractors(4200 hst,4400 hst,3720 hst), all you have to do is have the traction like on hard pack gravel or paved roads and ride the torque curve so you don't kill the enigne,remember these are rolling loads not dead loads like a log or stump,buy the way also pulled out a 80,000 lb hay truck once the next time he buried it first to the axles and we could not get him out of the holes it took a D4 cat and dumping the hay to get him out!!

minimax

 

[ACKBill]

Dirtworks:

You missed my point and that was simply that there is a good way to run each drive type and what works with one, may not come even close with another. It simply takes some time and patience to learn what works best for you in each situation for that particular drive type.

Speaking personally, I've had the pleasure of making my living running a lot of different equipment doing many different jobs under widely varying conditions and I'll still take a hydro over a mechanical drive any day of the week, but that's just my preference because it works with my "style".

Best,
BILL