Here's my personal baby, (vs the many larger tractors we have at our other farms) I love this modern tractor. (old enough to NOT burn DEF) Comfortable, convenient, has a passenger seat for
@Just Gina or grandkids. It has a very adjustable swivel seat that is even heated. The AC works great. It has an IVT transmission and honestly seems to out pull the 140 HP tractor I used to have. And it is so cool to just set the ground speed and the engine automatically adjusts to whatever RPM's it needs.
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The modern version is an incredible invention called an IVT transmission. This is very efficient and works great for all applications including tillage. If you look at the details in the photos I'm pulling a 15' disk with a tine tooth harrow on the back using 4.4 gallons of fuel per hour. At the time of the picture the engine was running g at about 1600 rpms and I had it set to drive 4 mph (rocky field, cushion gang disk).
It is behind the steering wheel but there is a little toggle lever for Park, Neutral, Forward and Reverse. No need to clutch unless feathering such as hooking up to an impliment or backing into the shed.
The orange levers on the side council, rear one is throttle which I have all the way but the tractor is programmed to only run as many rpms as the power required in this mode. If I was running the pto it would be set to the desired pto rpm.
The other lever is the speed control. The lever is for larger and faster speed changes, the black thumb roller is for fine tuning. You can see that sort of middle transition spot the lever is sitting in, that is where I like to set my preferred average speed (set with the roller) so that if I want to slow down for rocks or speed up, I can easily slap it back to that central point just by feel.
Beside that lever is a toggle quick switch for the 3 point hitch, then 3 finger toggles for hydraulics (many of our larger tractors have 4 or 5).
The 1/2 switch is a programmable quick switch i haven't used but for serious farming with large complicated equipment you can program in things like headland management. For example you may want to switch off the differential lock, turn off the pto, raise the 3 point, raise hydraulic cylinders in whatever order with whatever time between, all with one switch.
The yellow switch is an electric over hydraulic pto switch that automatically feathers it on to requirements so as not to shear a pin. Then there are more 3 point controls.
