You can come up with the work per hour figures based on the following: Length of a 40 acre field=1320'. Width of a 40 acre field=1320'. Width of plow=32". Width of cut per full round=about 5'. Number of rounds to finish field=264. Number of stops to shift down per round=10. Number of stops to shift up per round=10. Number of stops/shifts per 40 acre field=approx 5280. Time for each stop=10 sec. time spent stopping/shifting per 40 acre field=880 minutes=14.66 hours. OK, so you're a fast shifter. 2 sec per shift x 5280=176 minutes=2.93 hrs spent stopping/shifting. At this point, some farmers just decided to say to hell with it and plow the whole field in second gear. So, I could continue with the math on plowing the whole field in second gear vs using both second and third gear. But I hope you get the point. I used to drive those tractors in the conditions I described and diesels do, generally speaking, have better lugging ability than gassers. As for me, today? I gave the plows to collectors and drive a six cyl turbo charged intercooled monster w/ powershift, GPS, AC, stereo, weather band and lots of other stuff but heavens to betsy no seat massager and hardly think about plowing. I will never do that again.
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