Re: horsepower hours per gallon

Posted by JD70Jim on September 29, 2001 at 08:27:35 from (64.197.39.155):

In Reply to: horsepower hours per gallon posted by Duane on September 28, 2001 at 21:24:43:

In addition to what the other posters have said, you can use the figure to estimate how many gallons of fuel your tractor will burn per hour. A 50 horsepower tractor, would use 4.699 gallons of fuel, per hour. If your fuel costs $1.499/gal, your tractor will burn $7.044 worth of fuel every hour. This is of course, at full throttle & load.

A diesel tractor, @ 50 hp, doing 17.97 hp-hr/gal on fuel costing $1.25/gal would cost you $3.478/hr to operate.

Compare $3.48 to $7.04 and you will see the value of knowing your tractor's hp-hr/gal rating.

BTW, the 50hp diesel tractor I used in the example is a JD "70".

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