MPH or KPH?

[bluebell]

that is the question, do you care if the tractor has the speed in say KPH only ? and is it a legal requirement to show the speed being travelled on the public highway in miles per hour ? as the road traffic speed signs indicate?

 

[KB6930]

No not in the slightest

I used to change them to mph but don't bother now

 

[njneer]

that is the question, do you care if the tractor has the speed in say KPH only ? and is it a legal requirement to show the speed being travelled on the public highway in miles per hour ? as the road traffic speed signs indicate?

Think most manufacturers order processes will automatically add the relevant speed reading for the market to which it is sold.

Operator should be able to choose MPH or
KMH on the dash to suit their needs.

Most application rates are no KG / ha @ kmh but still some old schoolers out there like to work in acres and mph . Each to their own .

 

[Beowulf]

that is the question, do you care if the tractor has the speed in say KPH only ? and is it a legal requirement to show the speed being travelled on the public highway in miles per hour ? as the road traffic speed signs indicate?

I doubt it is a legal requirement, I've got a LHD car that still has a km/h speedo in it and it passes the MOT every year. Every truck I've driven has been in km/h also, as have the tachographs (admittedly a small sample of three trucks).

I have no preference either way, personally.

 

[James]

Think most manufacturers order processes will automatically add the relevant speed reading for the market to which it is sold.

Operator should be able to choose MPH or
KMH on the dash to suit their needs.

Most application rates are no KG / ha @ kmh but still some old schoolers out there like to work in acres and mph . Each to their own .

I work in kph but fert rates are cwt/ac
Cereal sowing in stones/ac and spraying l/ha

 

[roscoe erf]

No not in the slightest

I used to change them to mph but don't bother now

only cause you think your going faster

 

[roscoe erf]

I doubt it is a legal requirement, I've got a LHD car that still has a km/h speedo in it and it passes the MOT every year. Every truck I've driven has been in km/h also, as have the tachographs (admittedly a small sample of three trucks).

I have no preference either way, personally.

speedo is in both

 

[Kiwi Pete]

You can take an 85kph bend at 85mph anyway, so it's no drama

 

[KB6930]

only cause you think your going faster

Just got used to working in kmh and couldn't be bothered changing it

I jumped onto one in mph one day for rolling I covered the first field pretty quickly

 

[Tarw Coch]

MPH here, wouldn’t want anything else personally but each to their own.

 

[Beowulf]

speedo is in both

Not always ....

The Renault we had was km/h only too.

 

[Hesston4860s]

Prefer MPH but my JD 4755 is in KPH and I don’t know how to change it !.

 

[Mickstup]

Blimey, Speedometers on tractors, whatever next, indicators?.

 

[roscoe erf]

Blimey, Speedometers on tractors, whatever next, indicators?.

cabs

 

[Cowabunga]

I work in kph but fert rates are cwt/ac
Cereal sowing in stones/ac and spraying l/ha

I've long been metric in everything apart from fertiliser application and the car, but even then I convert the units per acre into cwt's per acre and then to kgs/ha for the spreading. All my tractors from the early 1990's have kph speedometers and I never use mph apart from when driving cars.
If someone told me to drive at 8mph, I'd ask them "how many kph is that?" or I'd convert it quickly using my phone which has a conversion app.

I've not used Imperial apart from units/acre since the early 1980's. Metrication was done in 1970 after all! It's a crying shame that road distance and speed signs were never metricated. I mean, what's the sense in selling fuel by the litre and quoting fuel consumption in miles per gallon when litres per 100 kilometres makes so much more sense.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

You can take an 85kph bend at 85mph anyway, so it's no drama

Probably explains why some Fendt drivers have problems negotiating roundabouts and remaining upright!

Or as my bike instructor used to say, “...if in doubt, gas it out”

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Probably explains why some Fendt drivers have problems negotiating roundabouts and remaining upright!

Or as my bike instructor used to say, “...if in doubt, gas it out”

If only those Fendts would burn some fuel, then they wouldn't be so heavy on the left hand side

 

[bluebell]

anyone from america comment on new vehicles from say germany both cars and tractors do they have MPH or KPH, or do they have to have by law the speed shown in MPH?

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

If only those Fendts would burn some fuel, then they wouldn't be so heavy on the left hand side

By golly man, you’ve cracked the mystery!!

That’s why they don’t tip over on the continent; that copiously full fuel tank is on the wrong side for our clockwise roundabouts. All the weight is on the outside.

 

[bluebell]

the reason i asked this question in the first place was that in the UK the traffic regulation speed limits are in max miles per hour you can go, not KPH or am i wrong? i know it has little bearingi on most farm vehicles on public roads, but more new tractors can now travel alot faster than say 20 years ago?