3130 GST/HST owners- Get a Hormone!

[5030]

I have to tell you, I appreciate the HST as well as the automatics in my car and pickup truck. You might like shifting, but I shift a 13 double over about a zillion times a day and depress that big twin plate clutch behind my 3406E Cat many times a day too.

I REALLY appreciate a slush box.

 

[stvman]

Cletus, On further review I have come to the conclusion that your Harleys are not going to get along with a Kubota. So I will bring my old 580 Case over and swap it out for you.

That's just the kind of guy I am always looking out for the other guy.. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[icat]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( If you had gotten a cab model, the clock would be there, along with the am/fm/cd/weather radio. No cab, no clock!! )</font>

Surely, no self respecting, clutch popping, gear jam'n, bike riding, chest pounding, macho man would be caught dead using AC in a cab! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Of course, that's the ONLY reason I can see to go with the L3430 - the cab ain't available on the baby Grand. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[frank_f15]

laughed when i read your post. i remember when i got my 2n it had the original metal seat and that sucker had a habit of swivleing and getting so it harmed certain parts of my body /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif one winter of that and off to the dealer to get a nice air cushinoed seat with arm rest. call me a wimp but it sure was nice. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[5030]

Icat:

I am an old man. I need comfort. Actually, I only use the clutch for stopping and starting the big truck. After that, all shifts are clutchless and splits air by air actuation. A 13 speed is a 9 speed with a back box. The 2 top gears are less than 1:1 hence double overdrive. The only thing I don't like about the HST is the straight cut gears in the range box. They whine in MFWD.

 

[_RaT_]

Hey Cuz, how are you liking that L3130. It's a great little tractor in a larger package. It's great that it accepts the larger loader and the shuttleshift really is a great option to go with. You actually don't need the clutch all that much for forward/backward stuff. I use a L4850 that has a shuttleshift on a regular basis and still really enjoy it. It's a considerable improvement over the old style manuals. I can also vouch for you (since I own a 6000lb International standard shift,) that your no less a man for having a transmission that is so easy to operate, just a smart one. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Rat...

 

[5030]

ICat:

I am an old F***. I have to have climate control. I'd liked to get a cab on my riding lawnmower!!! At least it's an automatic!!

 

[icat]

Hey, count me in with the wimps! I'd love to have had AC on my Kubota. Gets mighty hot in Texas in the summer. This weekend was a cool one - only 100 or so degrees! And humidity - oh my gosh! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Nothing like being wringing wet just from walking out to the tractor!

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( At least it's an automatic!! )</font>

i don't need climate control(mabey in the winter it would be nice /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif) But u can rest assured the next GT i buy will have hydro. tired of constantly shifting forward then reverese , over and over. never bothered me till the last few years! think i am getting older? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif call me a wimp but i like all the comforts . as for all the guys that think we are wimps for liking hydro, and climate control. wonder how u would take to having to get up and turn the channel selector to switch tv channels? no remotes a few years back. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[rdam]

I laughed, I cried. My truck and tractor both have a clutch. I am a Man. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[5030]

Like I said in the above post, I probably shift gears more times in a year than 2 people do in a lifetime. Putting it in "Drive" or stepping on a hydro pedal sure is a lot more convenient. besides, the older you get, the more "shiftless" you get!!!!!

 

[rjsmit1]

I don't think that hydro versus clutch has anything to do with political correctness. It is simply a matter of functionality. I drove a gear tractor for 3.5 years around the horse farm and and had great experiences feeling very manly pushing the clutch and stirring the shift lever around, but it just isn't productive to do that when you are doing stuff that requires constant directional change - manure moving, mowing around the trees that line my pastures, etc. Nothing wimpy about a Hydro and I guaronderntee you that I know how to drive a gear tractor - so my choice doesn't have anything to do with "I can't do it". A hydro is just good common sense if you ask me.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Man - you are soooooo not politically correct. You can't call hydro owner/drivers wimps (or the equivalent) just because they can't figure out how a clutch works....it's just too mean. But it's probably okay, because if they go to kick you in the butt, their left leg is too weak to kick with and it probably wouldn't hold their weight if they kicked you with their right leg.

Seriously, I agree with you comments - I like tractors to be tractors. My wife drives our tractors (which have all been gear drive, although the Kioti has a mechanical shuttle, which I really like). She drove the Belarus that we had quite a bit, and if there was ever a contraption with a more confusing amalgam of levers and knobs, I haven't seen it. All of our vehicles, except the '75 Ford truck, are all stickshift. I've driven a couple of HSTs and they just didn't do it for me.

I think, too, that I've finally figured out what an advantage of HST is. It comes from having too weak of a tractor, HP wise. With either the Belarus or Kioti (57 and 45 HP, respectively), they could be idling between 500 and 800 RPM and still easily pull full trailers of tobacco, hay or junk up hills while still in a relatively high gear, and thus you can go slow but still have power. If you need to speed up, just bump the throttle and faster you go, bump it back to slow down. With HST, you get the advantage of running your engine 2000-3000 RPM, whatever the prime powerband is, as you poke around with your foot on the rocker peddle.

In conclusion, good post and I hope everybody else thinks it's as funny as I did. )</font>

 

[_RaT_]

Holy Socks icat, man, thats tough to deal with. I mean here it gets to 100 degrees on occasion but quite dry at about 30%, but a few weeks ago it was in the 90's and humid, about 80% humidity, even the shade is not comfortable. Once, some time ago someone here said there is no difference in heat whether it's dry or humid, he joked and said, "at least it's a dry heat". Oh man, I'm a wimp, it's huge. I think I've become spoiled. Dry climate, HST, power steering, hydraulic loader, I'm no man to be sure if thats how it's being measured today /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif, spoiled rotten baby is more like it. But hey, it's fun and I like it. Rat...

 

[DK35vince]

My going with a gear tractor had less to do with being Manly and more to do with being a Cheapskate !! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[icat]

Only 30% humidity! RaT - I think I'd have trouble breathing in that climate! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I like the "feeling" I get from physical labor - the sense of accomplishment, the pride in the way the land looks after I work it. But with the heat in Texas you need all the help you can get - give me the power steering, the HST, and anything else you can think of. I want to live to enjoy all the effort I'm putting in! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

By the way guys and gals - all the Huisache trees in my sig photo. They're gone. Me and the SQ600 went to town the last several weekends. Got me some clear pasture now (well, there does seem to be a lot of "large" toothpics laying around). /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[_RaT_]

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif spoken like an honest man! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[5030]

DK35Vince:

10-4 to that buddrow. Keep the rubber side down and the shiny side up. Hammer down and don't forget to watch for the full grown bears!!!!!

 

[5030]

Frank:

I know from reading your posts that you ain't no youngster either. A cab is the best thing since sliced bread when you are out in the below zero weather blowing, plowing or moving snow with the FEL.

This winter was the first winter I had the 5030 and always before when I had to use the blower, I'd have to put on my snowmobile suit, a balaclava, my "grumpy old men" hat, snowmobile gloves and then go to work. After about 5 minutes, I looked like the "abomadible snowman" (I think I spelled it right). With the cab, I start the tractor, turn on the heater blower, come back in the house and finish my cereal. When I'm done I go out to a warm tractor and do my thing. WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!

 

[rdam]

I just read the original post again for laughs.

"battle stations of pumping hydraulics and throbbing diesels"

That cracks me up!

 

[_RaT_]

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