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Originally Posted by tevake
Can you elaborate on the trans differences and how that effect the FEL use?
I'm coming into this with very little experence on tractors.
Thanks, Richard
Ps are y'all noticing the southern twang Im picking up down here?
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Please remember that tractor preferences are like picking a 1/2 ton truck...everybody has their opinions and they are all valuable!
With the manual transmission tractor you will spend a lot of time shifting between forward and reverse. A lot: Scoop, stop, shift to reverse, back out, stop, shift to forward, move product, stop, dump, shift to reverse, back out, stop, shift to forward move to scoop, stop...
This is important to me because we have horses and I manage a lot of manure and compost. We have an area on the farm where we let the manure "age". We also have other compost rows for other material to break down in (I am a drop point for trees service folks so they do not have to pay dump fees). I then combine the two and manage those rows until the mulch is born.
With hydrostatic it is all done with your right foot on a paddle that controls forward stop and reverse seamlessly, smoothly and quickly. I also maintain a 1/2 a mile drive way and find that the hydrosatic allows for more precise grave placement as well as smoothing with the FEL.
Your needs may not be as demanding as mine, but I have found the hydrostatic much safer in confined areas as well...when you lift off the paddle in forward or reserve, the tractor stops right away - zero delay.
My two cents and I own both.