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Old 08-01-2012, 05:27 AM
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Were the QLs and 82 series gear drive tractors available with creeper drives?
Found a 1200 and 2-582s that are reasonable. Possible tiller tractors?
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Old 08-01-2012, 08:15 AM
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Yep, they sure were!
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Old 08-01-2012, 09:03 AM
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Great. I haven't found one with a creeper, but I assume the creeper drive and installation are pretty much the same?
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Old 08-01-2012, 11:13 AM
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Depending on your soil a gear drive can be a bear to till with. I prefer to till with a hydro but several other like the gear drives to till with. What sort of soil do you have in your area?
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Old 08-01-2012, 04:42 PM
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Depending on your soil a gear drive can be a bear to till with. I prefer to till with a hydro but several other like the gear drives to till with. What sort of soil do you have in your area?
Why would the soil make a difference? A gear drive is not 'a bear' to till with in any conditions I have experienced...it will work just fine on either transmission type, but the hydros tend to get pushed around more by the tiller, it seems.
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Old 08-01-2012, 07:29 PM
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If the soil is good sandy loam the tiller will do a better job and it won't pull the engine as hard,if it's hard pan (has alot of clay in it) it will pull hard kinda like trying to till up your driveway! If is red clay it would prob pull hard too. The better the soil type the better it will work up and not work the engine as hard.I grew up on a farm,did that till 96 we farmed good soil and had some gumbo (soil with alot of clay in it) and when you worked it or plowed it ,was like plowing concrete. I usually worked up into two inch size dirt clods.
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Old 08-01-2012, 09:34 PM
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If the soil is good sandy loam the tiller will do a better job and it won't pull the engine as hard,if it's hard pan (has alot of clay in it) it will pull hard kinda like trying to till up your driveway! If is red clay it would prob pull hard too. The better the soil type the better it will work up and not work the engine as hard.I grew up on a farm,did that till 96 we farmed good soil and had some gumbo (soil with alot of clay in it) and when you worked it or plowed it ,was like plowing concrete. I usually worked up into two inch size dirt clods.
...All of which makes no difference whether the tractor is a gear drive or a hydro. Still wondering what Methos is talking about
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Old 08-01-2012, 09:44 PM
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Duke is probably talking about the slow speeds of a hydro. A hydro can still go slower that a gear drive with a creeper.





When in very hard ground, as you know, the tiller will push the tractor. A hydro is much easier to slow down and speed up as you get into different soil types.
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Old 08-01-2012, 10:09 PM
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Duke is probably talking about the slow speeds of a hydro. A hydro can still go slower that a gear drive with a creeper.

When in very hard ground, as you know, the tiller will push the tractor. A hydro is much easier to slow down and speed up as you get into different soil types.
There's no need to go slower than a gear drive in 1st with the creeper engaged, nor is there any need to speed up and slow down. The tiller does a better job if you maintain a constant speed, and a gear drive tractor does that far better than a hydro. With a hydro, you're holding the tiller back with transmission more than trying to creep forward.

I have used both and have found the gear drive to do a better job and not get jerked around as bad as the hydro, although the hydraulic lift is nice since the tiller is pretty heavy. The ideal tiller tractor would be a gear drive with hydraulic lift, IMO.

At any rate, either transmission type will get the job done.
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Agreed..We three have our own opinions.
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