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What is more efficient, quad or diesel 4x4
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<blockquote data-quote="jellybean" data-source="post: 8211727" data-attributes="member: 6502"><p>A well respected Suffolk farmer that I did a lot of fencing and deer work for years ago said, when we were discussing various machinery options, that there is only one question you must answer, "will it do the job you want and do it well?"</p><p>Everything else is secondary, fuel type and price mean nothing if you've bought the wrong machine.</p><p>Yesterday I had a quad on demo, a secondhand one. I quite liked it apart from the high centre of gravity but then all current quads are too high. Finally I realised that it didn't have a transmission brake, only a clip on the rear brake lever, so the quad got taken back immediately. I learnt the hard way that if you are loading a stag carcass into a trailer on a slope and you need to be pointing down hill because you couldn't pull the carcass up hill into the trailer and you only have a brake on the rear axle when weight gets onto the back of the trailer it lifts the back of the quad enough to reduce the traction and away it goes. There are so many factors that make a machine suitable or not that you really do need to be very careful in your selection. If you are still alive at least you can choose between petrol or diesel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jellybean, post: 8211727, member: 6502"] A well respected Suffolk farmer that I did a lot of fencing and deer work for years ago said, when we were discussing various machinery options, that there is only one question you must answer, "will it do the job you want and do it well?" Everything else is secondary, fuel type and price mean nothing if you've bought the wrong machine. Yesterday I had a quad on demo, a secondhand one. I quite liked it apart from the high centre of gravity but then all current quads are too high. Finally I realised that it didn't have a transmission brake, only a clip on the rear brake lever, so the quad got taken back immediately. I learnt the hard way that if you are loading a stag carcass into a trailer on a slope and you need to be pointing down hill because you couldn't pull the carcass up hill into the trailer and you only have a brake on the rear axle when weight gets onto the back of the trailer it lifts the back of the quad enough to reduce the traction and away it goes. There are so many factors that make a machine suitable or not that you really do need to be very careful in your selection. If you are still alive at least you can choose between petrol or diesel. [/QUOTE]
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