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I used to regularly pull it into low whilst mowing silage down hill, used to make a better job of mowing going faster.The gear you only engaged downhill once
Ever
Well carting silage up here in the wet hills where there's no run off, pulling it into low didn't make much of a better job of anything
I got it from some1 that would deffo know that a full swap is circa 25k for dealer labour at 90 quid an hour plus the replacement box
AFAIK 32 speed Dynashift couldnt be made to do 50kph thats all ive heard.
Its pretty major surgery thats for sure
Keep hearing these horror stories about replacement gearbox prices.
They'd get left behind if they did, and you'd be saying 'why the hell are MF still buggering on with a stick box when the competition has gone powershift?'
The diff or half shaft epicyclic could though leaving the spread of the 32 gears to do their bit. The idea of the Dyna 6 is ideal though just that the robotic gear changes are dreadfull and the spread is all wrong!!
JD have persisted with a gearstick and powerquad?
Its quite simple really. People cant be bothered having to use a gear stick and to compete with the likes of newholland range command they had to do something. Problem is range command is very user friendly but the dyna6 is more complex which in theory leaves it more versatile being fit to program startoff gear and the likes, but in practice its only a balls of a gearbox that your always looking at the screen to see what gear your in and can easily accidently change the startoff speed leaving you pulling out at junctions in a low gear nearly causing an accident. Once this happens a time or two it creates an instant dislike for the tractor, sure therl be plenty of people that still like them but statistics dont lie and the fact is mf sells nowhere near the number of tractors they used to sell and market share has took a hit.they also have a crappy feel to them inside the cab on par with cnh products. The minute u get into a fendt or jd you instantly get a feel of this is a quality product that you dont get nowadays with a massey compared to years ago, tbh thats a big selling point as the customer gets the feeling of confidence in what they are buying with the green tractors
So JD powerquad with a gearstick as an example, if they were to use software to automate the moving of the stick and pressing of the clutch just think how much abuse you could give that transmission. That's what a lot of others have done.
Mf allows somewhere in the region of 100 hours just to swap the tranny out and in at 90 an hour so theres 9 grand then the new unit is said to be around 15k so theres your 25k. Makes a vario replacement at mabe 8-10 k hours look cheap
