We run a Magnum 245 on our Brent 1080 and it pulls a 40ft roller as well as a 12/24 JD 1790 planter. The tractor has rear duals and front weights.
I would guess you would want at least 200-225hp with ~250hp being the best. A roller pulls easy once it's rolling, it's the weight that can push a smaller tractor around.
Based on tractor data, a 7290r should do just fine.
Use a Magnum 215 around here for 40'roller(easy), 50'heavy harrow(harder at speed), and have used it the odd time on 1100b cart. HP is no issue, but the weight of 1000b of product can push these around a bit depending on terrain.
Im running a brent 1282 right now that typically dumps 1050-1110bu of corn. We pull with a 9410r and loaded it can move the tractor around enough to know its there.
Had our 8130 hooked to it for beans and it was borderline scary for stability.
The 4x4 really helps due to weight. I cant see running smaller than a fully weighted dualed 300hp fwa
Pulling a 1020 J&M grain cart(1050 bu) with a JD 7920 fwa.. Does the job well, we're fairly wet here and when the grain cart is full I'm maxed out at 12mph.
You guys don't know what wet is until you need 450hp to pull around 300 bushels in a 1000 bushel cart. 2010 harvest was like that for us. Fields were totally destroyed from ruts.
We are kinda back to normal now but I wouldn't want anything less then a 450hp 4wd tractor on a thousand bushel cart.
You just need a tracked grain cart not 450hp. Had a 1000bus cart (on wheels) for several years and 375 hp could do whatever it wanted. I drove it so fast and hard that it started having frame cracks. Learned a lesson and bought a bigger one and drove slower. Pulled my 2000bus for a good part of a year with 375hp, it did it slowly.
Drawbar weight would be more of my concern. Make sure you have any and all drawbar supports if available. HP wise you are fine and unless you have big hills you should be fine weight wise. We pull 1300 bushel cart with 325 hp 4wd (tractor weighs 37k and has cat IV hitch which i'm not sure is strong enough) and power wise it is fine until it gets soft in the field.
Yeah I was just poking at you Jason. I have seriously considered it. Wouldn't be to bad if I could switch them between the grain cart and my bourgault air tank. Maybe next time we trade our air tank I'll get it without rubber and then buying the tracks wouldn't be to bad because I could take the money from the tires and put it towards the tracks.
Yeah I was just poking at you Jason. I have seriously consider it. Wouldn't be to bad if I could switch them between the grain cart and my bourgault air tank. Maybe next time we trade our air tank I'll get it without rubber and then buying the tracks wouldn't be to bad because I could take the money from the tires and put it towards the tracks.
That actually is an option, Bourgault sells their tanks with Camso (Camoplast) track undercarriage as a factory option. The very same undercarriage is sold to Brandt on their grain carts, I'm sure you could swap them around.
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