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baydog1

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Hello, I have a 801 that's a 841 series with 4 speed transmission. Tractor after a lot of blood, sweat and not to many tears is in good shape, starts and runs like a champ and the hydraulics, all controls and brakes work great! The problem I'm having it the tractor is to fast!..I have ran it down the road in 4 gear wide open and I can't believe how fast this little tractor is. So scraping the driveway, pulling a little dirt around in first gear by throttle position works good. But I hooked my 3 point hitch rotor tiller to it and set enough speed to get close to 540 pto speed the tractor in first gear is just to fast and if I try to throttle back to slow down ground speed the tractor will lug and shut off if I slow down the ground speed too much by the throttle it. Am I missing something to slow down ground speed or is this just the way the tractor is built? A high and low range would be great!
Thanks
Scotty
 
Add a Sherman combo
It will reduce your ground speed but the down side is it will also effect your PTO
 
Those 4 speed transmissions are just too fast to run a PTO driven rototiller. The 5 speed is too fast also. The only transmission from the '01 series that is well suited for a rototiller is the S-O-S.

The Sherman auxiliary transmission that Kirk mentioned won't help. It alters the input speed to the main transmission and the PTO is driven off of the transmission, so even though the Sherman, when in step down mode, will slow the tractor down, it will also slow down the PTO by the same amount, so you will need to increase the throttle to the point where the tractor is moving at the same speed as it would be without the Sherman to obtain 540 rpm PTO speed.
 
Looks like I will be tickling the land a couple inches at a time until i get it broke up good, then let er rip! Never had a problem with a
tractor being too fast.
Thanks
Scotty
 
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