Posted by DFZ on August 28, 2016 at 11:26:30 from (75.164.132.186):
Just wondered what everybody calls each gear on your tractor with dual range transmissions.
I find it humorous when I talk to my father in-law and he talks about mowing with his Ford 4600 in light grass in First and High. I ask, "Don't you mean 5th Gear?".
On our tractors, mostly fords, we call the gears in low range 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, (Of course), but select high range 1st becomes 5th, then 2nd becomes 6th, 7th, and 8th.
Adding to that confusion, most all of our work tractors have Dual Power. We say 1st and low, 1st and high, 5th and low, 5th and high and so forth. That gives us 16 forward gears but the low and high does not mean the range selection lever, only dual power.
In my opinion it was a mistake of Ford and many other manufacturers to label the range selection lever Low-High. I wish they had labeled the lever 1-4 and 5-8. It also makes it difficult training a new employee to drive tractor that the High low lever does not mean High low, it just selects whether you are selecting 1st-4th gear or 5th-8th. High and low to us means Dual power high and low.
Does anybody do differently? Do you call 6th gear 6th or High 2?
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