Quoting Removed, click Modern View to seeAsk someone with a Saran/Manheim Deere how much fuel they burn doing light work. *Hint* It's usually about the same as they burn doing heavy work. [/quote] 2nd[/quote]On the other hand I've seen this tractor chop as much silage as a 4440 in one hour on 4 gph of fuel while the 4440 took 8 gph... To be fair, I only run a half set of knives now to get that tonnage from the 7710... but otherwise... I ran both tractors and pumped the fuel into both so I know what got used. /quote]
That's fairly significant for an 86 pto hp to chop "as much silage" as a 130 pto hp tractor on 1/2(half) the fuel in the same amt of time. Maybe the 4440 had some bad injectors or needs a "BLUE" paint job.[/quote]
Jim I've got a 1206 Farmall. At PTO or WOT it can go through some fuel for it's size. Nebraska test says 7.1 gph at PTO RPM and 7 gph at drawbar, I'd say that's pretty close to what I'm getting. Now the engine is in good shape and the pump and injectors were tested a little over a year ago. But it burns almost that much at half throttle just picking up bales with the loader. I think thats what RodinNS is saying.
If I have a chopper that requires 80 HP behind a 90 HP tractor I can only go so fast before I plug it up. Now if I put a 130 HP tractor on that same chopper I'm going to have the same problem with plugging. But to get the most out of the chopper I'm going to have to run both at PTO speed to get the most out of the chopper. Even though I'm not working the 130 HP tractor as hard I've still got those RPMs up. So it will do the same amount of work dictated by the choppers ability but I'd bet that in most cases the 130 HP tractor is going to burn more fuel.
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