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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 17887" data-attributes="member: 162"><p>Re: ice, ice, baby</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've heard there's ''gas horsepower'', and ''diesel horsepower''. I'll take your word for it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My tractor burns a bit more than a gallon an hour at full throttle. The 6 gallon tank lasts about 5 hours. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have three implements - the 60'' mower deck, the 48'' blower, and the front end loader with 54'' bucket. Any tractor is a compromise. The tractor and mower deck are well matched, but it's not as good as a zero-turn mower. For the blower, I'd like more horsepower. It gets the job done, but if I have more than about 4'' of fairly wet snow I'm moving fairly slow. With the bucket, I've got horsepower to spare, but the limiting factors are the weight of the tractor, traction, and lifting capacity of the bucket.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A Bobcat for dirt and snow work and a zero-turn for mowing would cover the bases better than what I have, but that would have been at least $10K more than my tractor cost, and two machines in the garage instead of one. It's funny - until very recently, my tractor was worth more than all 3 of our vehicles combined.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 17887, member: 162"] Re: ice, ice, baby I've heard there's ''gas horsepower'', and ''diesel horsepower''. I'll take your word for it. My tractor burns a bit more than a gallon an hour at full throttle. The 6 gallon tank lasts about 5 hours. I have three implements - the 60'' mower deck, the 48'' blower, and the front end loader with 54'' bucket. Any tractor is a compromise. The tractor and mower deck are well matched, but it's not as good as a zero-turn mower. For the blower, I'd like more horsepower. It gets the job done, but if I have more than about 4'' of fairly wet snow I'm moving fairly slow. With the bucket, I've got horsepower to spare, but the limiting factors are the weight of the tractor, traction, and lifting capacity of the bucket. A Bobcat for dirt and snow work and a zero-turn for mowing would cover the bases better than what I have, but that would have been at least $10K more than my tractor cost, and two machines in the garage instead of one. It's funny - until very recently, my tractor was worth more than all 3 of our vehicles combined. [/QUOTE]
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