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Electric over Hydraulic?
Thinking outside the box, John Deere engineers in Germany have designed a new mid-size diesel tractor. Taking away the traditional belt drives and hydraulics towards electricity. What a change from magnetos, to generators, to alternators.
John Deere’s 7430 and 7530e premium tractors produce electricity using an efficient flywheel mounted on the crankshaft rather than using a traditional belt driven alternator.
This new electricity will run the cooling fan motor, air brake compressor, cooling system pump, and air conditioning. It could also operate a new generation of implements that would get their power from electricity rather than hydraulics. Other than helping run the tractor and operating pull behind implements, you can have electricity available for hand tools, and any other needs for electricity, even as an emergency power source.
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Wouldn't it be something if we could come up with a hybrid tractor motor that would run itself without fossil fuel. We might consider going back to the pony motor theory, once you started the engine and the electric kicked in, it would run on self generated electric? The difference being electric instead if petro.
I think a lot of us old gassers will not like to see the new generation, but I do believe it is the future. We need to get away from depending on foreign oil.