She's thirsty

notjustair

Well-known Member
It never ceases to amaze me how some tractors have certain things that make them drink fuel. Sometimes it obvious from how hard the engine is working, sometimes not. I'm plowing terraces with the 886 and a five bottom plow. Some fields make her really thirsty. I was just in a field I thought was easy - I never used the TA - and I need to stop at the fuel barrels after lunch. With the 4440 it's the 12 foot moco. She does other field work, but when she has to do that pto stuff there's no comparison. The 7800 has absolutely no variance - it's like the 8430. It uses the same amount no matter what's hooked to it. The 9500 combine hates FWA. Kick that in and double the fuel consumption.

My old Farmall M that I grind feed with seems to need the same amount of gas no matter what I use it for. It used to be my loader tractor and I thought it was so hard on gas. Now that it works pretty hard each time I use it I find that it uses about the same amount.

Ground engaging equipment isn't a consistent fuel hog - a few things surprise me. What makes your machines drink the fuel?
 
I started farming with a JD 730 diesel. It would normally run on a gallon or two an hour.I hooked it to a 2 row silage chopper once.It blew the blackest column of smoke I've ever seen. then and since.Sucked over 5 gallon per hr.Fill in morning,run till noon,fill tank(20 gallons) Start at 1:00,fill at 5:00.20 more gallons. Chopped for 3 1/2 days like that.
 
If it's the old articulated 8430 those old gals sip the fuel.the 9500 likes it's fuel especially if your pushing it hard in beans.
 
Best on fuel tractors that I have used are the David Browns and Massey/Ferguson. The worst were the big IH tractors like the 1086 models. As was stated it does not seem to matter what type of work you are doing with them they still love their fuel.
 
The worst tractor for fuel consumption was a 1980 JD 4040(90 horse).Would burn over 7 gph while plowing.Later sold(lost) it,replaced with a 856.Pulled the same plow 2 mph faster on half the fuel.My 'old' 06/56 IH seem to be pretty easy on fuel.
 
I had a fwa McCormick with Perkins that I did deep tillage with. Now have Cat track. Can do a lot more work in hour but man that Cat likes the fuel compared to that Perkins.
 
(quoted from post at 14:58:50 12/03/16) I started farming with a JD 730 diesel. It would normally run on a gallon or two an hour.I hooked it to a 2 row silage chopper once.It blew the blackest column of smoke I've ever seen. then and since.Sucked over 5 gallon per hr.Fill in morning,run till noon,fill tank(20 gallons) Start at 1:00,fill at 5:00.20 more gallons. Chopped for 3 1/2 days like that.

WOW 5 GPH fuel consumption is nearly 2 more GPM than the maximum fuel consumption of 3.153 GPM that the Nebraska test #594 showed for a JD 730 diesel.

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All I have to do is start the White 2-135 and it starts drinking fuel. Sometimes I don't know how that much fuel can get through those small lines. 7 gallons an hour no matter what I'm doing with it. It's parked whenever I can do the same job with the Perkins powered 2-105 or 1850.
 
Dad had a 460 gasser that would go through the stuff pretty fast when he plowed
Noticed the same with my 756 gasser.
 
I bought this 4040 new. Loved that tractor. Wore it right out. It was thirsty though. It'd use 5 gallons an hour no matter what you did with it. Even sitting idling,if it didn't burn that much it would wet stack it. The 1850 Oliver with the 92 horse Perkins would run an close to half the fuel.
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Nebraska drawbar tests indicate the Oliver 1850 2WD diesel at 80.04HP and and 14.74 HP per gallon per hour. 6.3 gallon per hour on the pto at full power.
The 4040 Deere at 74.8HP and 11.24 HP per gallon per hour. It did better on the pto than the drawbar with 13.49 HP per gallon per hour.
Nowhere near "Half".
 
Yeah, actual consumption in the field does not seem to be directly related to the Nebraska Test results and seems to vary with individual tractor.
 
Ya,no two alike. My 2-105 White has the same 354 Perkins as the Oliver,but it has a turbo. The pump must be turned up more and has larger injector tips or something,because it's harder on fuel that the Oliver by far.
 

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