Which clutch is preferable?

What is the difference in a split torque clutch and a dual clutch?
What is the difference from the seat? How about economical or reliable?
In my case it's a 175 MF but I'm curious. Thanks.

For a dual clutch you only have to push the pedal down about half way to dis-engage one of the clutch disks to change gears. If you need to use the pto you need to push the clutch pedal all the way down so you dis-engage both clutch disks to put the pto in gear.

A split torque clutch is like a single clutch. you can only disengage the clutch to put the tractor in gear. On the split torque clutch the pto runs constantly, if you need to put the pto in gear you just move the lever to engage the pto (like when you have a car with a automatic, and you go from neutral to drive).

The split torque clutch doesn't need to be operated every time when engaging the pto. You don't loose forward speed when engaging the pto.

What clutch you need is determined by how the pto on the tractor is setup for. If you have live pto you need the dual clutch "you can not use a split torque clutch on a tractor that has live pto".

The split torque clutch is a little cheaper cost wise because it only uses one clutch disk instead of the two clutch disks that a dual clutch uses.

When the tractors with independent pto (which uses the split torque clutch) quits working it can cost a lot of money to fix it because it uses hydraulics like a automatic transmission to work rather than using a clutch disk. A tractor with live pto that has to use the dual clutch doesn't rely on expensive hydraulics to operate it. A split torque clutch doesn't give you any more power than a dual clutch. In the long run a tractor with live pto (dual clutch) will probably be cheaper.

What ptfarmer said.. Only thing to add is dual clutch tractors have the ground speed PTO if needed for hay rake use. And get your wallet out big time to repair the hydraulic PTO system on split torque models when it quits. What usually kills them is low oil level, pressure drops, then the plates get burned and warp.

Thanks for the feedback. I've determined I have a dual clutch setup.