hydro

I have friends that bought these hydros new for potato harvesting, planting and spraying. Other than that they leave them parked, just too much repair and maintinence for low value crops like hay. Most of these guys are on a rotation of potatoes, hay and grain, and it's their tillage tractors that do the hay.

They are absolutely the cat's meow for certain types of work, but a total disaster for any real "tractor tasks".

Have your billfold at the ready. :>)

Allan

They have a high range and a low range, most work will be done in low range as it is good for around 6 to 8 miles per hour if I remember correctly. Very light work such as raking could be done in high range, but generally speaking most people only use high for road transport.

The hydro system takes a pretty good chunk of horsepower to operate and hydro tractors do not work well for heavy drawbar pulling. They are best suited for haying operations and loader work, in my opinion.

If you get a gasser they are really tough on fuel, the diesels aren't as bad, but still worse than a comparable gear drive.