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Spudm

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Been looking at these newer compact tractors with the horizontal exhaust. Just curious what your thoughts or experience is on them vs a vertical exhaust. Thanks.
 
I have two with exhaust going out the lower front below the radiator. I thought it would present a problem but they don't seem to so far.
 
It's kinda hell on one hand and high water on the other.
Vertical is noisier and will catch branches and clothes lines you didn't know we're there.
Exhaust in your face stinks ALL THE time.
Cheaper to just buy the muffler and not the pipe.
Horizontal will asphixiate when you hook up an implement but is quieter. More chance of starting a fire in a hayfield. Hot foot from the muffler is good in winter, bad in summer. Rocks and branches want to tear the muffler off cause it's low. Mice will build nests in the muffler over the winter too.
But over all I prefer mine horizontal. Have converted a few. Works better for my purposes.
 
In tall dry grass the hot exhaust can start a fire with the horizontal. With the verticle exhaust you won't have that problem unless the grass is extremely high but you can rip them off if you drive under a low limb. You'll have to look at your situation to decide which is right for you.
 
Btw no rain issues, I keep all my tractors locked up and under roof. Last thing I want to do is breath exhaust. I know 2 ex truck drivers with stage 4 lung cancer. One is 52 and never smoked. DR think diesel exhaust may have caused it.
 
I have several larger tractors and one small one with vertical and one with horizontal. Each has it's own place. The one small one I was raking hay with so that one is vertical. The other small one I mowed lawn with and low branches were a problem.

Rick
 
Don't like the horizontal because working on it it's always blowing in my face. Some times the wind is just right and blows back at you (pointing forward) Have Ford 1910 the is vertical after coming out of the side. and it flops around like crazy. And this is way we all need several tractors. LOL
 
My little Mahindra has the muffler up near the engine with a pipe that runs down and sticks out just beyond the covers (was at first going to say "the sheet metal" but none of it is metal) and behind the radiator. So, don't get exhaust in the face either sitting on the seat or hooking anything up. I like that. My 9N had a vertical when I first got it but quickly changed it to the standard horizontal, rear exit pipe. Don't like the fumes from that in the face when hooking something.
 
(quoted from post at 07:09:23 05/20/16) I have two with exhaust going out the lower front below the radiator. I thought it would present a problem but they don't seem to so far.
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Yeah - That's where my Kioti exhaust exits - just comes out from behind the sheet metal (no plastic) and the tip points it to the front and left. As you said; I thought it would be a problem, but isn't. Horizontal OR vertical, you can get a face full when conditions are just 'right', or, in this case, just wrong. 8)
 
The old tractors can be pretty noxious, but newer compacts put out pretty clean exhaust. There's a little puff of black smoke when you start 'em or rev the engine suddenly, but for the most part you can't even smell them running unless you stick your nose right up to the pipe.
 

If I was looking at a new one I'd get it with the exhaust down low toward the front, on my old tractors I run vertical, horizontal stirs up to much dust on some of the jobs I do, also tree limbs are easier to see than stumps hiding in tall grass.
 
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