Re: Power Shift clutch is awesome

Posted by BLinWMi on January 10, 2007 at 17:25:55 from (64.12.116.74):

In Reply to: Re: Power Shift or Shuttle Shift on 3020 JD posted by sodly on January 10, 2007 at 15:37:29:

You must not have spent much time on a 30 or 4020 with power shift. The clutch pedal on these tractors is every bit as responsive as a mechanical clutch on the synchro range. I farmed with 4 of these tractors with PS and a 5020 with SR. The PS is the only way to go, it was a plain mistake that Deere never had PS on the 5020 or 6030. There was nothing that the 3020 PS was not good at. We had no quick hitches so backing up to hook up anything on the 3 point required backing up to implements with exact closeness. I do agree that the shift smoothness with ps could have been a little better, on my tractors the only big jump is from 7 to 8. I have seen guys do as another person said, set the throttle at full and just shift up thru the gears. Doing this made some of the shifts severe, but it doesn't take much common sense to figure out that ya just keep it about 1,500 R's till ya get in 8th gear, then bump up the throttle to full from there.
P.S. if I ever get the chance I will have to post the pic my family has of a 3020 that my grandpa demoed from the Deere dealer in Montague years ago. His big tractors at the time were a 60 and 70, so the dealer hauled out a 3020 PS for him to try out. We have a black and white of the 3020 hood ornament looking straight towards heaven. He got to the end of the field north of the barn, pulling a 3 bottom trailer plow and evidently forgot the clutch was on the floor of this tractor. The front end rolled up the road side till grandpa finally figured out how to stop it, at the point the tractor was setting on the 3 point. He got lucky because just at that minute the milk truck drove by and offered to pull the front end back down. Not sure how grandpa bribed the milk man to keep quite but we understand the dealer never found out about it, and 10 days later grandpa bought a 3020 from another dealer.

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