Cats Forever
Hey Angelo, looking good! Here's a handy generic sheet on owner operating costs that gives an estimate of fuel consumption on the second page. Looks like maybe around a gallon an hour if it wasn't working too hard, maybe 1.5 if it was feeling the discs
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Awesome fact sheet Neil, thanks buddy.
Cats Forever
Years back in the D2 days we could pull an 11 ft disc in third gear and in 4 hours we could add 5 gal of diesel and just fill the tank at noon. Farming under continuous load usually requires more fuel than on the charts as they probably allow for intermittent loads like dozing and scraping. Our green 250 hp tractor (Wheel) would use 12 gal per hour like clockwork under a pretty good load.
2 Bud Lights per hour for Crawler$$$...the slower he drives, the more consumption though...I don't know about how much fuel use per hour. I used to monitor use when I only used empty oil buckets to refuel with, back in the days of growing up dirt poor farming here. I want to say around a gallon an hour here on my D2 with most implements.
Nice IH Unibeam disk Angelo. I bet if you opened it up a hole or two, it would make your D2 beg for 3rd gear. Whatever became of the Killefer disc project?