Re: No Till Drills, tractor horsepower requirement

Posted by B. Jones on July 24, 2007 at 09:47:12 from (64.72.46.147):

In Reply to: Re: No Till Drills, tractor horsepower requirement posted by aord on July 24, 2007 at 09:29:26:

If you are talking pto , then a 180 MF is about 63 Horsepower as tested at Nebraska. We have one but do not use it on our 15 foot no till drill. We pull it with an 85 hp tractor and it does a pretty good job. I do think a 180 could pull a 10 foot no till. Going up a hill with our 85 hp tractor we are able to go about 5mph with the 15 foot. Once we get to level ground we go a little faster. By the way our drill is a 15 foot John Deere model 750. It holds about 40 bushel of seed so it is a good load when we have it full. Many people have said that you want over 100 hp with the 15 foot drill but most of the time we get along good with 85 hp. By the way all my figures are for pto hp and not engine hp. I think our 85 hp tractor has around 100 engine hp but we still call it 85 because that is what Nebraska got out of it. B. Jones

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• Re: No Till Drills, tractor horsepower requirement arod 09:58:40 07/24/07 (0)

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