What's your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

[imported_MiserblOF]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

>>My CAT D3 fuel consumption at 5 gallons per hour seems high to me also. Maybe someone is siphoning the fuel? <<

****. Just when I thought I could go another winter without buying any oil.
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[imported_MiserblOF]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

>>My CAT D3 fuel consumption at 5 gallons per hour seems high to me also. Maybe someone is siphoning the fuel? <<

****. Just when I thought I could go another winter without buying any oil.
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[ultrarunner]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

I'm a long way from the Catskill Mts... but thanks for coming forward!!

 

[ultrarunner]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

I'm a long way from the Catskill Mts... but thanks for coming forward!!

 

[whitetiger]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( "Cat D3 Dozer: 5 gallons per hour (8 hours on 40 gallons)"

I owned an international 500c dozer which is a 10,000 lb 45 HP machine and it burned 1 gallon of diesel per hour. I know the D3 is a little bit bigger but the fuel consumption on your cat seems too high. A HP is a HP and your dozer shouldn't use much more fuel than an equal HP tractor when they are both working.

Your tractor looks to be abour right. )</font>

Every motor/tractor is different. I run an 8430 4wd John Deere with a 21' folding wing disc, and use about 5.5 gallons per hour. The other halfs uncle has a Stieger, about the same hp, with the same size disc, in the same soil (half mile away), and he uses 10GPH!!!! Needless to say he's not too happy with his new to him tractor. )</font>

Acording to Nebraska Test #1179 a JD 8430's fuel consumption is 11.8 GPH. I know of a good number of 8430"s and they use more than 5.5 GPH just driving down the road.
What model is the Steiger???

 

[whitetiger]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( "Cat D3 Dozer: 5 gallons per hour (8 hours on 40 gallons)"

I owned an international 500c dozer which is a 10,000 lb 45 HP machine and it burned 1 gallon of diesel per hour. I know the D3 is a little bit bigger but the fuel consumption on your cat seems too high. A HP is a HP and your dozer shouldn't use much more fuel than an equal HP tractor when they are both working.

Your tractor looks to be abour right. )</font>

Every motor/tractor is different. I run an 8430 4wd John Deere with a 21' folding wing disc, and use about 5.5 gallons per hour. The other halfs uncle has a Stieger, about the same hp, with the same size disc, in the same soil (half mile away), and he uses 10GPH!!!! Needless to say he's not too happy with his new to him tractor. )</font>

Acording to Nebraska Test #1179 a JD 8430's fuel consumption is 11.8 GPH. I know of a good number of 8430"s and they use more than 5.5 GPH just driving down the road.
What model is the Steiger???

 

[neverenough]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

I have not seen his tractor yet. He just got it this spring, never asked which model.

Well, don't know what to tell you on the 8430, that's what we get. We don't plow, just pull the folding wing and offset disc with it. She does run clean though, the only time smoke comes out the stack is when the throttle is opened up. The injector system is good, it fires up in sub zero temps. Grandpa has been running the family farm for 54 years, and has alway's tracked numbers very closely. He is really good with numbers. He has been very pleased with this tractor. He got rid of the 7020 becouse it was a pig on fuel. He's so good with the numbers and fuel use, he can tell you how much fuel is in each tractor becouse he knows how long it has been used, and what for. Some of the fuel rate is also the quality of the fuel too. We buy fuel 5000 gallons at a time from a very good source.

 

[neverenough]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

I have not seen his tractor yet. He just got it this spring, never asked which model.

Well, don't know what to tell you on the 8430, that's what we get. We don't plow, just pull the folding wing and offset disc with it. She does run clean though, the only time smoke comes out the stack is when the throttle is opened up. The injector system is good, it fires up in sub zero temps. Grandpa has been running the family farm for 54 years, and has alway's tracked numbers very closely. He is really good with numbers. He has been very pleased with this tractor. He got rid of the 7020 becouse it was a pig on fuel. He's so good with the numbers and fuel use, he can tell you how much fuel is in each tractor becouse he knows how long it has been used, and what for. Some of the fuel rate is also the quality of the fuel too. We buy fuel 5000 gallons at a time from a very good source.

 

[whitetiger]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

JD 7020, Nebraska Test #1063 HP-146.1 GPH-10.2

 

[whitetiger]

Re: What\'s your Fuel Consumption... Gallons per Hour

JD 7020, Nebraska Test #1063 HP-146.1 GPH-10.2