I'm just going by what the tractor burned. The 860 we have, poorly tuned or otherwise, fo ras long as me or my old man cna remember would burn 2-2.5 IGPH which is right about what the 7710 would burn on nuisance work. In our situation where we had to lug pump gas in cans as opposed to dyed diesel from an on farm tank... it was a pretty simple decision. I did grow up on the seat of the 860 and put a lot of hours on that tractor learning to drive, and we did get a fair bit of light work from it many years ago, but man, it liked gas.
Sounds like ag has gone about the same direction in NY as it has here. Quite sad really. I can remember when I started farming (2000) we had over 400 milk shippers in NS. We had 259 as of the end of August, and looking like 1 more gone last week... There's going to be a lot more beef and hort guys go this year I think. Not good.
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