HST hydrostatic or shuttle shift FNR with gears

Mutt and Jeff · Nov 1, 2019

I see someone getting a new kabota and believe the HST indicates hydrostatic transmission.

I've driven both and except for constant slow speed mowing or perhaps plowing situations
have found myself to be much more fluid and appearingly smooth with experience with the shuttle shift

pick a gear
stab it and go
skip loader backhoe
getting about and re positioning

when I get on the rocker pedal of HST I get as jerky as a jerk

What is it that makes one happiest with either

dcarp · Nov 1, 2019

I have driven both and prefer the gear & shuttle by far. IMHO the hydrostatic is for people who never learned to drive a standard shift. My hay mowing tractor has shuttle with dual range. Pick a gear & go, when you get to a corner hit the button which drops tranny to lower range, turn the corner, hit the button for higher range and keep going, no clutch, no changing HST pedal, throttle. Just a button down, a button up and the steering wheel.

Mike M · Nov 1, 2019

Really hard to beat a hydro for loader work and mowing where you have lots of back and forth to do.

coshoo · Nov 1, 2019

You guys and your "Kabota" tractors.

Never had a shuttle, but have a compact utility JD that's hydrostatic- it has separate pedals rather than the rocker pedal. And a "cruise control" to set when you get it going the speed you want. Hard to beat for loader work, which is most of what we do.

Ken Macfarlane · Nov 1, 2019

We have both here, a hydro Kubota (50 hp), a gear Shuttle, and a power shift shuttle. Loader work the hydrostatic is faster and more precise, especially with the forks. As soon as you get on a hill doing loader work the hydro is even faster as it automatically brakes. If I?m working next to something that can?t have the tractor running into it, I?m on the hydro. Loading equipment into trailers on hillsides? Hydro.

Slamming around in the field with long distances between loader operations like picking up bales the power shift shuttle is fastest.

The little Kubota with about 1/2 the loader lift as the other two will fill the lime buggy or manure spread as fast at the others for a comparison, and won?t bang into the side of it while doing it.

SPMN · Nov 1, 2019

M & J I had the same problem with my HST as far as jerking when I 1st got it--I learned real quick to not keep my whole foot on the rocker pedal--I keep my heel of the floorboard for going forward & go to my toe on the floor to reverse---I got used to doing that pretty quickly---I love my 4630 HST that's probably 8 to 10 years old

VicS · Nov 1, 2019

Have a two petal JD. 50 hp hydro. It has cruise control just like your pickup. When you come to the end tap the brakes to turn cruise off. Turn corner at a comfortable speed to you. Hit cruise switch. Tractor goes back to preset. Say 5 mph. If that to fast tap minus. If to slow tap plus. If it won't pull, say a hill 15 mph. It will just pull down some rpm. And hydro automatically slowes you down. Get over hill speeds back to 15. Best think, till they come with something better.

Hobo,NC · Nov 1, 2019

MY HST works GREAT if I had it to do over again I would have got a
Suttle and WHY.. HST eats up HP (slippage and heat) other than loader work are mowing a shutter shift is hard to beat... Suttle shift does not eat HP its more along a standard clutch with a hydraulic de-coupler that de-couples the input while you shift on the fly.. Its very efficient unlike a HST...

HST hydrostatic or shuttle shift FNR with gears

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