Tractor diesel consumption!!

What tractor make has proven best on fuel!

  • Fendt

  • John Deere

  • Case

  • New Holland

  • Massey Ferguson

  • Deutz

  • Landini

  • Zetor

  • Claas


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Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
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Anglesey
thats put me off buying one, ok apart from that?

Like all pick ups (?) need to put in a load bay liner. We had one sprayed on & its a great job. Seats aren't fantastically comfortable after a bit (but I have a bad back) but it is streets ahead of an L200 and no as garish inside as a Jap machine - though some people like that sort of thing

Ours is averaging 30. Can get 35 on a long motorway trip. And we dont dawdle along either.

We have the auto box and find it tends to jump around between gears a lot on the smaller roads. Yes, they shift to naughty speed impressively
 

JJT

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BASE UK Member
Location
Cumbria
Like all pick ups (?) need to put in a load bay liner. We had one sprayed on & its a great job. Seats aren't fantastically comfortable after a bit (but I have a bad back) but it is streets ahead of an L200 and no as garish inside as a Jap machine - though some people like that sort of thing



We have the auto box and find it tends to jump around between gears a lot on the smaller roads. Yes, they shift to naughty speed impressively
Ours is auto too.
 

Grassman

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Location
Derbyshire
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150 hp. Relatively light use.
Fendt
 

DrDunc

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
this is an incredible claim are you sure they use that much less fuel?
Most definitely yes.

I've posted many times examples of where there's been a different brand doing exactly the same job in the same field, and the deutz consistently uses 10 to 20% less fuel.

On the old bff there was a thread where I'd compared a Deere 6330 and a deutz k430 power harrowing side my side in a wet 20 acre field. Tanks brimmed at the start and metered in when finished, the Deere used near 5l/ hour more to do the exact same job.

Carting straw this winter, a landini (40hp more than my deutz 6150.4) pulled the same weight, following me at the same speed, and used near 20% more diesel. That included the deutz loading the straw while the other was switched off.

I've also compared mowing, baling, ploughing, even silage carting (though that's a difficult comparison as there's so many variables). Consistently the deutz engines use less fuel than equivalent sized tractors from other brands, including engines from sisu, new Holland, Deere.....

The only tractor that has come close was a zetor forrterra 140 which was remarkably good. I've not managed to compare to a fendt, but it's the engine that creates their economy. Vario gearboxes actually use more fuel through mechanical inefficiencies than powershift. However they make this up by optimising the match between engine load to gear ratio.

A tractor doing 1000 hours per year saving just 2l/hour average, is costing £1000 less a year in fuel. I save more than that a year in fuel compared to other brands.

That's a lot of money over the years to buy implements!
 
Most definitely yes.

I've posted many times examples of where there's been a different brand doing exactly the same job in the same field, and the deutz consistently uses 10 to 20% less fuel.

On the old bff there was a thread where I'd compared a Deere 6330 and a deutz k430 power harrowing side my side in a wet 20 acre field. Tanks brimmed at the start and metered in when finished, the Deere used near 5l/ hour more to do the exact same job.

Carting straw this winter, a landini (40hp more than my deutz 6150.4) pulled the same weight, following me at the same speed, and used near 20% more diesel. That included the deutz loading the straw while the other was switched off.

I've also compared mowing, baling, ploughing, even silage carting (though that's a difficult comparison as there's so many variables). Consistently the deutz engines use less fuel than equivalent sized tractors from other brands, including engines from sisu, new Holland, Deere.....

The only tractor that has come close was a zetor forrterra 140 which was remarkably good. I've not managed to compare to a fendt, but it's the engine that creates their economy. Vario gearboxes actually use more fuel through mechanical inefficiencies than powershift. However they make this up by optimising the match between engine load to gear ratio.

A tractor doing 1000 hours per year saving just 2l/hour average, is costing £1000 less a year in fuel. I save more than that a year in fuel compared to other brands.

That's a lot of money over the years to buy implements!
very interesting i shall look into this
 

Deutzdx3

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Ours is averaging 30. Can get 35 on a long motorway trip. And we dont dawdle along either.

My navara get 35mpg. I calculate it via amount of fuel in ltrs into gallons divided my miles which is 450 to a tank. Trip computers are pants.
 

Deutzdx3

Member
Deutz have set the benchmark for fuel efficiency for nearly 2 decades. It's why agco still buy in deutz engines to assemble fendts when it makes far greater financial sense for them to fit their own in house Sisu. However without the deutz engine, they could no longer claim fendts are frugal.

New Holland fpt engines have now taken the crown for the high horse four cylinder engine with a recent test of one mated to their new 8 speed dial clutch transmission model.

Deutz six cylinder engines still remain the most frugal tested by the independent DLG within Germany.



The deutz tractors that I run have saved enough fuel to buy many of the implements in my yard. Had I choosen a brand, say, painted a different green with yellow wheels, the cost of my dung spreader, bale wrapper, plough and 8m tedder would instead have been burnt in diesel.

I have an old deutz dx3 and it uses a thimble of fuel. It'll do all the hay this year which will be 60-100 acres and it'll go on a tank of juice. Maybe a bit more if I use a mowco.
 

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