constant revving engine

mike1111

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my grandson is using my 2510 to bushhog and I hear him pushing the foot feed peddle making the tractor rev up and down. it sound like he is driving his dirt bike. I asked him just keep a high rpm but 16 year olds do as they want. I don't think it is good on the tractor and the govenor but not sure , maybe he is right and wont hurt a thing but wil not let him run the combine that way. whos right?
 

Pick your battles!

If playing a little with the tractor gives him joy perhaps you can get him NOT to do that with the combine!

He'll outgrow it!

(HOPEFULLY.)
 
I agree that on the bush hog it is not really hurting anything other than causing a little undo wear to the throttle and governor to carb linkage. But yes on the combine it needs constant set RPM to do a good job. Maybe a few well placed words about the expense of the equipment an how treating it properly is part of getting a machine to last 50 years and still be reliable. May fall on deaf ears, but still in my opinion you are setting a good foundation for what will make him a responsible individual later on.
 
it wont hurt a thing, other than be annoying. give him a cat to run with the decelerator, many of the 30 series Cases have accelerators also,
 
Growing up, if my brother and I did that we would be pulled off the tractor by dad pronto, run it right or we would be put on a worse job. Far as I'm concerned it's not good on ANY driveline to be jacking the foot throttle unnecessarily and a good way to break a crankshaft or other parts with the on/off throttle play.
 
I would be concerned about the equipment, but more than that is the lack of respect for my desires, and disrespect which will carry over into other aspects of life as he grows older.
 
It is wise to pick your battles, but a little conversation about if he wants to run it that way, he can do it on HIS tractor, not yours. Never to early to impress the importance of respecting other people's equipment.
 

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