Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 10, 2008 at 14:58:32 from (209.226.106.71):
In Reply to: Re: Gas use posted by Country Nate on September 10, 2008 at 05:56:16:
Nate: The Nebraska tests were quite good, however you can not take them to the field. Besides what you are reading from a book is a condenced reoprt and doesn't tell the rest of the story.
During my farming career my 7 tractors, probably clocked 100,000 hours,maybe be closer to 125,000 hours if I took time to add them all up. That was 7 tractors at same time, I actually owned 19 of them during my career. I never owned a 6 cylinder gasser, however I've heard planty about them from farmers I knew well.
I did own a Farmall 300G and on my 9' NH 460 haybine it would burn 3 gph. My 656D on that same haybine burnt 1 gph. I kept very accurate records of every gallon of fuel used. The 656D was faster and cut 20% more hay per hour than the 300G. I think you can see why my 300 was the last gasser over 30 hp that I used on my farm. My 560D was cranking 90 hp and it was awfully hard to put 2 gph through it, very rarely did it ever happen.
Obviously you have not operated many of these tractors, should try it, would be a good education for you.
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