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How to Drive & Operate a Tractor : How to Shift Gears on a Tractor

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Uploaded by on Oct 5, 2008

Shifting gears on a tractor is very different from shifting gears in a car. Learn how to shift gears on a tractor in this free video on tractor operation.

Expert: John Ryan
Contact: www.rcotractor.com
Bio: John Ryan works for the family-owned RCO Tractor in Austin, Texas. The roots of the company date back to the mid 1900's and they provide Texans with farming and ranching equipment.
Filmmaker: Mark Bullard

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  • this video is retarded. dose he think he knows everything about all tractors or what. because all the tractors i have driven exept mabey a ford 2600 could be shifted on the go and i driven many diferent kubota, john deer, mf, ford, hesten, new hollond, landini. and there is to many different ways to controll the pto. most of the tractors i have worked with have a two stage clutch, and many new hollond and includeing hesten have pto speed controls seaprate than the cluch enagement

  • every tractore is very different you cant show a person how to operate a yanmar tractor and then expect them to know how i have a 1610yanmar and a farmall h and there is nothing alike on them you need to tell people than you have to learn evry tractor differntly or your gonna screw up the tractor

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  • You can start off in high in 4 but the tracter shudders and you have to keep it from dying so this video is pointless

  • as said this is retarded.. i can shift my farmall M's and H's... ON THE MOVE, and NEVER grind a gear... expert village my ass..

  • HAHA thats hardly a tractor! A real tractor does have syncronised gears( all the way back to the 70s?) we have a john deere 1640 relatively small tractor and it´s from 84 and guess what you can shift all you want on the move!!

  • Crazycowcat - you're probably just jealous because his tractors probably BIGGER than yours.. Tractor envy !!!

  • @crazycowcat And he is supposed to explain all this in 2:45 ?

  • @MasseyFergusonFord yeah lets see him explain on a case or a john deere 6800 or somthing carting 14 tone of grain we will see whos expert then lol

  • Most tractors have enough torque to start in any gear from a standstill, but you can shift the stick just fine while moving without damage if you fully understand and are good at shifting a non-syncronized gearbox. You need to know ground speed/rpm ratios for each gear and double clutching downshifts. Practice in a manual car first, since if you get it wrong, the syncros will match it...it'll pop right into gear with little effort when you get it right, and quietly if it's a non-syncronized.

  • @ConbonJD

    Yeah otherwise how would they be able to go the roads etc.

    Just double-declutch and find the right revs.

  • Of course you can change gears on the go. You just need to know how.

    Besides most new tractors are syncronised now

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