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jim in ny

04-10-2004 16:30:43




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just got done seeding 45 acres of new hay ground with a 10' brillion with the 560diesel used a grand total of 15 gal of fuel. it don't get no better than that!with fuel prices like they are these days the old girls [we have 2 of them] are gonna do some work this year. for the hp I dont think there is a cheaper tractor to run.




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riverrat

04-11-2004 05:39:40




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 Re: 560 fuel consumption in reply to jim in ny, 04-10-2004 16:30:43  
Hugh McKay will agree with you. He always says the 560 diesel is the cheapest horsepower on the planet.



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Hugh MacKay

04-11-2004 20:16:08




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 Re: Re: 560 fuel consumption in reply to riverrat, 04-11-2004 05:39:40  
riverrat: Go one step further, call it 282 diesel, and doesn't matter whether it be in a 560, 660, 656 or 706. I put close to 25,000 hours total on my 560 and 656. Repairs on these two tractors were almost nil under 10,000 on each of them. I don't knw about the planet but definatly the most economical horse power I ever farmed with.

Even if I assume they turned their rated hp, which they did, always. If I assume my 1066 put out 150 which it did. My cost per hp with the 560 and 656 were much lower. 66 series tractors may have been great tractors, but they were heavy drinkers.

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TP from Central PA

04-10-2004 19:15:06




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 Re: 560 fuel consumption in reply to jim in ny, 04-10-2004 16:30:43  
Those D282's are really good on fuel..... ..The one in our 706 just sips it. I'd rather have a D310 German Diesel though, seem to have alittle more guts than the D282 and do just as well on fuel.



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Chris Brown

04-10-2004 18:52:19




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 Re: 560 fuel consumption in reply to jim in ny, 04-10-2004 16:30:43  
I know what you mean,I wish I had another 560 diesel. I have a gas 560 now that I believe would sit and idle 5 gal/hr. Those old 282's are fine engines if you can hold a head gasget on it.



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Hagan

04-10-2004 18:10:37




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 Re: 560 fuel consumption in reply to jim in ny, 04-10-2004 16:30:43  
you are defenately right. I have a 560 myself but the sad thing is most of my machinery is too big or too heavy for the hydraulics to lift like my disk and mulcher. But I do use it to drill alfalfa and do light work with. I pumped water with it with a crissifulli lift pump until 99 when I purchased a LP Gas 560 and could hook the line up directly from the 150 gallon tank and no messy fuel ups. I sold the LP tractor this winter because of FUEL COSTS the LP would burn 2.5 gallons per hour pumping and the Diesel would do the same job on aprox 8/10 of a gallon per hour. One time years ago we were trying to pull 2 IHC 150 14X12 hoe drills with the 560 Diesel and it was dry and pulling them deep and it was using a little over 3 gallons per hour. That was the most fuel I ever saw that tractor use in the 40+ years we have had it.

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