Can I run this?

Jake in SD · Feb 28, 2016

Hey guys, I've got a 16 foot 1475 New Holland hydroswing that I bought last fall. I'm curious to see what the opinions are of running it behind a 706 IH tractor rated at 75 PTO horsepower. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

rrlund · Feb 28, 2016

I've got my doubts. I've got a 9 foot that I pull with a 92 horse Oliver 1850. It runs it just fine,but get in real heavy hay and you can hear it starting to work. Push almost twice that much hay through one with only 75 horses on it? I just don't think it'll be an ideal situation.

paul · Feb 28, 2016

My experience is with 9 foot cutters in our wet humid thick hay we have here.

I don't think you would make it in these conditions. Bet 100hp would be a much better day. But drive slow enough and can get by for a year maybe.....

Paul

4020 electrician · Feb 28, 2016

The hydro swing alone with the mower will push you sideways. You need 125 hp tractor minimal. My 2 cents.

Brown Swiss · Feb 28, 2016

If you cut early and cut often! LOL You never mentioned gas or diesel, either way it is not a good match.

Nick m · Feb 28, 2016

Not comfortablely. Just sold a 14ft deere 1600. Ran it with a deere 4320. For the most part, it didn't really know it was back there. In heavy first cutting, it would make it work a little. They are heavy also. Wouldn't want much less of a tractor on it for that reason. It'll throw a tractor around swinging it on headlands or hills, especially if the hay is damp.

Bill VA · Feb 28, 2016

According to this link/pdf, minimum hp is 60. Might be a stretch, but is a sickle machine vs disc mower.

See page 6

http://www.boonetractor.com/subpages/parts/sicklemowerperformance.pdf
NH 1475 Info

DeltaRed · Feb 28, 2016

You're a little under powered.Pulled a Hesston 1014(14') behind a 706D(310). Worked OK till I got to heavy late cut grass. Then It would work the snot out of it. Hillsides would try to pull the tractor sideways. I now use the 1256. I like it a whole lot better. Power and weight to spare.But try it. You will probably be in 3rd,or 3rd TA instead of 4th.

wolfman · Feb 28, 2016

If it is a German diesel 706 with calcium and a set of weights, it's 10 to 11,000 lbs and has all of 76 PTO hp. Seems all you need for a cutter bar mower conditioner. A good 706 is a hoss.

Don-Wi · Feb 29, 2016

I've run our 14' Hesston 1014+2 behind my 1600 for a little just to say I did it. It worked it hard and was a little light to handle it. Add another 2 ft, and it's really asking a lot.

I run the machine on a regular basis with either our Massey 285 (80-85 HP) or Oliver 1855(105 HP). The Oliver handles it better, but it depends on what else is going on at the time as to which one I hook on.

Donovan from Wisconsin

donjr · Feb 29, 2016

Nuthin beats a try but a failure- or so I have been told.. Try it- you probably don't have enough butt to do it, but the old 706's would surprise a lot of people. You may not be able pull it at a higher speed, but they make gears for that. And then you can step up to more ponies in the herd without SWMBO complaining as much.....

jicaseman89 · Mar 1, 2016

my little 830 case comfort king diesel handled my old 1014 hesston pretty decent on flater ground road ditch and side hills.......well it did it most my ground is rough so 1st,2nd and third. hydro swing was to big and clumsy but i got it for scrap price then traded to a nh 489 9 foot really like it.
loren

sammydwm · Mar 1, 2016

No.
Pulled a 12' hydroswing with a 756 and it was not good. Plenty of power but not enough tractor to handle the weight.
If you never have to take it on the road and your fields look like tables it might work.

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