Went out today and hooked up my pallet forks, then took my bush hog off my trailer and then needed to spin it around (aka pick it from a different direction), and did it all with my geared tractor. I must've hit the clutch a dozen times? I don't know! It was sooo easy I didn't keep track. :laughing:
I creeped, I reversed, I even switched ranges (because I use A when parking it in the container). All of this must make me a super hero of coordination based on the comments.
The bit about wheelies earlier went over some heads. See, horsepower is a derrivative of torque. Torque is what does all work, but how quickly you can apply it is the benchmark we base everything on. Torque converters, HSTs, and fluid power in general is all about torque or force multiplication, but it's at the expense of time. So your 35 engine horsepower will not be 35 horsepower after the HST. It very well will have more torque than you started with, but your transmission shaft will never spin at the same RPM as your engine, which means you're always losing horsepower.
Does it matter? Maybe, maybe not. Some of us think it does. I get 58 PTO horsepower out of a hair more than 3 gallons per hour. I've seen HST guys claiming 1/3rd that on half the fuel. That's a big difference to me.
