We had a 656 Hydro gas. I really liked it, but it did have its downfalls. First off, it was terrible for tillage work. If you are planning on pulling a 4 bottom plow with it regularly, expect an expensive repair bill. Second, expect to have roughly 70 to 80 percent of the horsepower of a gear drive 656 due to losses in the hydrostatics. Third, if it is gas, expect to spend a lot on fuel. Our 105 hp 806 diesel uses about 1/2 to 3/4 as much fuel as our 656 gas did. Now for the positives. It was the most accurate spaying tractor we ever had. It gave our old pull behind sprayer the same accuracy as one of those new spraying rigs because you could set the groundspeed and rpm independently of each other. It worked well for moving round bales in the fields and loading type work because you didn't have to use a clutch. It is also easy to drive for inexperienced operators. You could match rpm to load like no other tractor with the infintely variable speeds. I would recommend that you try to find a diesel model, and be sure to change the hytran EVERY year. We had ours 15 years, and the gas engine had 2 complete overhauls and was knocking like crazy when it left. The boost pump on ours failed and the cost of that repair is what ended its life. No one was interested in buying it, and we couldn't afford to fix it, so we sold it for junk value to a junkyard.
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Today's Featured Article - When Push Comes to Shove - by Dave Patterson. When I was a “kid” (still am to a deree) about two I guess, my parents couldn’t find me one day. They were horrified (we lived by the railroad), my mother thought the worst: "He’s been run over by a train, he’s gone forever!" Where did they find me? Perched up on the seat of the tractor. I’d probably plowed about 3000 acres (in my head anyway) by the time they found me. This is where my love for tractors started and has only gotten worse in my tender 50 yrs on this “green planet”. I’m par
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