Using Dyna 6

Mc115reed

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Livestock Farmer
As at the time probably most didn’t know of the benefits of driving the VT let alone the increased reliability of the whole back end…..
Massey still don’t sell that many VTs, not sure if there’s a massive price jump or just your typical Massey driver comes with a piece of blue pipe and a collie dog so VT is just another thing too distract them from thinking about milking cows and bending mud hurts
 

Chae1

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Location
Aberdeenshire
Massey still don’t sell that many VTs, not sure if there’s a massive price jump or just your typical Massey driver comes with a piece of blue pipe and a collie dog so VT is just another thing too distract them from thinking about milking cows and bending mud hurts
Thought they liked to, so they could tell there friends they have a red fendt.
 

Mur Huwcun

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North West Wales
Massey still don’t sell that many VTs, not sure if there’s a massive price jump or just your typical Massey driver comes with a piece of blue pipe and a collie dog so VT is just another thing too distract them from thinking about milking cows and bending mud hurts

No, locally it’s awashed with 7618s Dyna 6. Doesn’t look the ideal tractor for haybob, 6 foot topper, 2 bag spinner, 8 foot moco etc 😂😂😂😂
 

David.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
Having had a bit of a play about with it, it seems to be fairly intuitive to use. One click left on the dial seems to be okay for road work, set start gear preset to "off".
 

Grassman

Member
Location
Derbyshire
I hated dyna 6 with a passion. It was verging on dangerous for road use. Getting on to a roundabout was highly dangerous and even more embarrassing! Having to crawl across a busy roundabout at about 5mph was the final straw.
However I used a claas with the same gearbox and it was a lot better. Somehow claas had it set up better.
 

Grassman

Member
Location
Derbyshire
As I see it, the issue is having a low start off speed preloaded. When that is turned off, the tractor will set off in 3c, or whatever other ratio ratio you stop in.
Our issue was one very busy roundabout with six roads and one road on to it was an uphill set off. Bad enough in a car but a sod in anything slow or heavy.
You have to pull out quickly.
I found it was easiest to just go in manual gearbox.
 

Farmer_Joe

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
The North
As I see it, the issue is having a low start off speed preloaded. When that is turned off, the tractor will set off in 3c, or whatever other ratio ratio you stop in.
its all about setting it up right, sadly its kind of not a 'jump on gearbox' but if you take the time to set it up it is very good, i really like it, like a step forward from a std box as can auto change and go through the entire range with no cutch.
 
Well you’ll stop at the roundabout and dip the clutch as you approach, even if you are still rolling pretty well and realise you don’t need to stop and can carry on full send it’ll have dropped back down too your start gear automatically, so 3B… then you’ll work your way through the gears by 3G your half way out in the middle of the road revving the pansy so hard even the Irish would be proud… you then go in deep for the range change hoping and praying it’s a fast one and all of a sudden you find yourself out in no mans land rolling out across the island in what feels like a scene from the matrix because everything slows down that much while a bunch of African migrants shovel as much coal into the boiler as possible waiting for the gears too engage because by the time it’s in your gonna need all the steam she’s got too get rolling again before an Eddie stobbarts wagon driver on the phone side swipes your trailer
I take it your not using auto mode then? To compare dyna 6 to dyna 7 is like night and day if you know how to drive the new transmission. You should never need to dip the clutch at a junction, only ever use the break pedal.
 

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