Oil & Fuel Grand L fuel consumption.

[jas67]

I continue to be amazed at how little fuel my B7100HST uses. I put 11 hours on it this weekend doing box blading, raking, and moving dirt with the FEL. I pretty much had it wide open for most of that time, and only used 3 gallons of fuel! That is less than 0.3 gal/hour!

 

[SPYDERLK]

I continue to be amazed at how little fuel my B7100HST uses. I put 11 hours on it this weekend doing box blading, raking, and moving dirt with the FEL. I pretty much had it wide open for most of that time, and only used 3 gallons of fuel! That is less than 0.3 gal/hour!

Yeah, me too. My 20" pushmower will go thru that idling.
larry

 

[Charlesaf3]

I make it a policy to not list the equipment I own here on TBN as opposed to some. It is not particularly something I wish to do and is viewed by many as being similar to guys wanting to compare their W2's or bragging about all of their possessions in a "keeping up with the Jones'" type of thing. However, the JD tractor I own that I'm referring to is shown here in a Nebraska test http://tractortestlab.unl.edu/Deere/Deere_5525.pdf When mine went out of warranty I had to injection pump turned up a bit, so I don't actually know how much more hp it puts out.

Dargo, to you its bragging, but it isn't necessarily for others. Like this case, its often useful information to see what equipment others have. And information transfer is the real benefit of this site. I regularly get questions about some of the less common attachments that I post, and I do it in an attempt to give back a little of what I've gotten out of here.

I'm hoping, and guessing, that there aren't many here who are sad enough to "brag" to people they haven't met, who live many states away. Seems kind of silly to me.

 

[Charlesaf3]

I continue to be amazed at how little fuel my B7100HST uses. I put 11 hours on it this weekend doing box blading, raking, and moving dirt with the FEL. I pretty much had it wide open for most of that time, and only used 3 gallons of fuel! That is less than 0.3 gal/hour!

I'm not surprised - the kubota B series really seem to sip fuel.

 

[Builder]

I make it a policy to not list the equipment I own here on TBN as opposed to some. It is not particularly something I wish to do and is viewed by many as being similar to guys wanting to compare their W2's or bragging about all of their possessions in a "keeping up with the Jones'" type of thing.

Uhhhh, OK.

I've had 4 different Case backhoes over the years. Maybe with a similar hp dozer, like the 955 Cat I had, but not with a backhoe.

There you go, bragging again.

 

[Dargo]

I'm hoping, and guessing, that there aren't many here who are sad enough to "brag" to people they haven't met, who live many states away. Seems kind of silly to me.

Oh, some are without a doubt. I'm more of a private person. Sometimes I get a kick out of someone telling me all about something and telling me how something is done when I know they don't have a clue. Besides, some of the silly stuff people list (which I'm sure they are proud of) is quite comical. Read what some guys list and how absolutely trivial it is. Quite a bit would have no real world reason to be listed. I happen to have several licenses, such as a Securities Series 6 and 7 license, a Certified Financial Planner's license etc., but I feel it has no bearing on anything discussed here. I look at that as if I'd list the degrees I hold and awards I've won in the same manner. Some things simply don't apply to the discussion of tractors etc. Thus, my satirical lampooning of them with my signature. Some people really get carried away. The funny thing is, the ones who I feel are the most hilarious never catch on to the joke. Besides, I seem to more align myself with the 'average Joe' than the guy who lists he has everything.

In truth, for the most part, I strongly feel that it's nobody's business what all I own and have parked in my barns. Although I have security systems on all the barns, I'm not about to advertise on the internet even the number of barns I have let alone what a potential criminal may find in those barns. I'm similar on firearm sites; I will admit that I have more than a dozen firearms but less than five hundred. I feel that's close enough and all I'd like to list on the world wide web.

 

[Happyman]

Wow....this thread sure took a left turn....

 

[Builder]

Wow....this thread sure took a left turn....

yeah....sure did.

 

[Yankee Clipper]

If you are really working it hard, it should burn right at 2 gallons an hour - don't forget you are packing around the weight of the cab - the air conditioner and implements.

 

[lawn_king]

I just performed a 15 acre core aeration that i do every year. I burned less fuel with the 3540 than i did with the 3030 pulling the same 1000 lb aerator.

 

[Bob_Young]

First fuel burn data point on my MX5000 was 3.8 gallons for 3.1 tach hours or about 1.25 gph (accounting for a few ounces of fuel additive there). Was bush hogging some very heavy stuff with 6' BB720 and turning 2100 to 2300 RPM...which is about 20% below PTO speed...and running in 2nd and 3rd gear, low range but without FEL.

Less than 30 hours on it, so it's still tight. As I recall, that's better than I've done with the L4300. Usually it gets around 1.4gph when worked hard. Will hafta recheck as the 4300 is smaller and should do better.

Oh, and Dargo; I appreciate it when someone lists the equipment they have. If I'm considering buying something, I first like to 'ask the man who owns one'...and I don't mind providing the same service on something I own.
Bob

 

[number two]

Maybe the old adage"don't send a boy to do a man's job" applies here!

 

[john_bud]

I have a thought that may be applicable to the original posters question.

The new Grand L tractor has a tach that measures RPM's and makes the conversion to time assuming you are turing PTO RPMS. That means that if you run at 1/2 PTO speed for a light job for 2 hours, the "hour meter" will register 1 "hour" of time. Basically, that is a way to normalize maintenance between heavy work and light work. It's a known improvement over the cheap lawn mower meters that just spin when power is applied. No connection to the engine running, just the key on time.

I think the smaller older Kubota's would have the key on hour meter. If so, running one of them at low rpm would show a low fuel use per clock hour.

Make sense?
jb

 

[lawn_king]

Yes it doe's john. In the case of this huge aeration job, im comparing overall fuel use, nothing to do with time. The 3540 is simply way more tractor than the 3030, so its less burdon to pull that aerator.

 

[john_bud]

Yes it doe's john. In the case of this huge aeration job, im comparing overall fuel use, nothing to do with time. The 3540 is simply way more tractor than the 3030, so its less burdon to pull that aerator.

And that is a good example of when bigger is cheaper to run than smaller! Sort of like that old saw about sending a boy to do a mans job.