| durallymax - 4/11/2013 21:30
The Fendt will take the longest to learn, however I see no need for being able to "jump in and run" a tractor anymore. There are so many settings and features people need to be aware of, it really takes an entire day of learning them to get a feel for which on is best.
There's a lot of truth to that. A while back I was helping a guy get a big square baler going reliably in corn stalks and he had borrowed a fairly new Challenger tractor to run it that week. Along with making the appropriate adjustments to the baler, I also dicked around with the tractor and changed the engine governor settings to favor the PTO speed more and the ground speed less (two different settings). The next day the operator gave me all sorts of praise citing that the baler ran much smoother and that the adjustments made to it made a world of difference. The problem was that the adjustments to the baler would have had no effect on how smooth it ran!
I finally showed him what I did, but it just goes to show that you can certainly jump in some tractors and go, but there are small settings that can make a world of difference on how well the tractor does the job. |