There's a few factors involved in getting that amount of haylage through that chopper. As I said, one primary difference is that I was running a half set of knives when it's on the Ford... When I ran a full set I was producing about 25% less per hour. The other principal factor is that ~this~ particular 7710 is turned somewhere in the vicinity of 105 hp. Then you add up that there is less parasitic loss on the 4 cylinder chassis tractor; particularly one turned this high... a more efficient transmission to work with for this job... and a bit less weight to drag around generally... And without a doubt the 7710 was working a whole lot harder. I can't explain to you why the 4440 used so much fuel but I do know it could not make it through an 8 hour day without having some cans brought to the field. Tractordata says it had a 65 gal tank... although to be honest I thought it had a 58 gal tank. You can do the math. But there's a huge difference there in fuel per ton of feed any way you want to work the numbers. Each tractor was chopping somewhere in the range of 4 loads per hour, blowing into either a 14' Jiffy or a 12' shop built high dump... and in case you're wondering, the 12' is mine, towed behind the Ford... and it cubes considerably more than the 14' Jiffy because of it's cross section. The 4440 was at that time probably a 6500 hour tractor and as far as I could tell, starting, running and pulling just fine. It just likes fuel.
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