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OliverGuy

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Just got done planting 135 acres of corn, no starter. Minimal road traveling, fields were around main farm. 134 acres and 24.8 gallons of diesel used. This is a M125X 4WD, loader on for rocks, no duals pulling a JD 1760 12 row. .185 gallons/acre is pretty good. When up and down the road planting beans it usually is .2gal/ac. Who says you need a big tractor to plant. I don't care for getting jostled in a smaller cab however and duals would help keep the side to side movement down. But, that's what I use. What do large tractors use per acre planting?
 
I think with a 12 row you are about right. Folks have to remember there sure is a difference farming in like Iowa where one has 400 acre fields and say here in Tennessee where we spend fully a 1/3 of the day moving. We are running one of the new M7 this year and I know less than 2 gal per acre.
 
They weren?t overly generous on the older Kubota cabs! My m120 has a jump seat from an m-125 in it for my son. If you have the tilt column back she?s a shuffle to get out. Luckily easy to hit the foot pedal for the tilt.

If I?m grumpy about it just have to hop in the allis chalmers 7010 to remind myself how bad a cab can be to enter and exit.
 
(quoted from post at 13:46:48 05/06/18) Just got done planting 135 acres of corn, no starter. Minimal road traveling, fields were around main farm. 134 acres and 24.8 gallons of diesel used. This is a M125X 4WD, loader on for rocks, no duals pulling a JD 1760 12 row. .185 gallons/acre is pretty good. When up and down the road planting beans it usually is .2gal/ac. Who says you need a big tractor to plant. I don't care for getting jostled in a smaller cab however and duals would help keep the side to side movement down. But, that's what I use. What do large tractors use per acre planting?
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I'm not sure about planting but a friend has a larger CaseIH 4X4. He claims that it burns about 25 gallons an hour when doing tillage. But he's knocking about 32 acres an hour off with a chisel plow according to him. So about .78 and acre doing heavy work.

Rick
 

Wouldn't GPH be a more realistic figure than GPA of fuel usage? My Kubota M7040 uses 2.5 GPH pulling my JD 467 rd baler but I've never measured GPA fuel consumption.
 
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Wouldn't GPH be a more realistic figure than GPA of fuel usage? My Kubota M7040 uses 2.5 GPH pulling my JD 467 rd baler but I've never measured GPA fuel consumption.
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Actually if you are figuring out how much you have invested per acre for putting in and harvesting a crop you have to know how much fuel you burn per acre. Also GPH isn't really a good measure. If lets say I'm trying to tell someone who's not familiar with farming that I have a machine that uses 25 gallons of fuel every hour how are they to understand just how much work is getting done? Kinda a 1/2 truth too. 25 GPH sounds like a lot of fuel. But I have a tractor that sips about 2.5 GPH. Yet doing heavy tillage burns about 2.1 gallons per acre. So GPH is not an accurate measure of cost of operation.

Rick
 
Very nice,they're a very heavy unit,over 15 000 pounds before weights and ballast. We have a new M6S 111 rops loader on order. Had an M8200 for 15 years very tough dependable tractor,traded it on a low hour NewHolland T4030 and it's not so much.
 
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oldtanker
I guess it boils down to "different strokes for different folks".
Thanks,Jim
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Jim let me put it this way. How many gallons an hour does your car or truck burn? But you most likely know about how many miles per gallon you get? So it's really the same thing. And gallons per hour can be misleading. That's because tractor A may burn 10 gallons an hour but only covers 8 acres an hour while tractor B may burn 10 gallons an hour but does 16 acres an hour. On the face of it both tractor burn 10 gallons an hour. Gallons an hour only tells you what it burns, not how efficient it is.

I think we get stuck on what we have learned. For years they talked about gallons per hour. Now some people are starting to look at the cost per acre to operate a machine.

Rick
 
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