It is a 3025D 2019 model John Deere tractor with the bucket attachment and a manual transmission. It has 4 speeds, high and low for each speed, and obviously forward and reverse so JD considers it a 16 speed tractor though really it’s 8. I daily drive a manual transmission vehicle (2016 VW Jetta) and it has synchronizers in the gearbox, AKA if you’re gentle on clutch work you don’t need to worry about rev matching at all. Furthermore, I recently got to drive a 18 wheeler, the real thing and a training simulator, and 18 wheeler transmissions don’t have synchros so I got some experience driving those (albeit minimal). This leads to my question, I go to a backcountry high school and deciding what we were gonna do for senior prank day I came up with the idea that any of us that have a tractor should drive it to school that day or the day we all graduate. There is a fair amount of highway separating most of us from the school including me, and the John Deere my family owns complains when you have to start it moving in it’s highest gear. Nothing wrong with the tractor it’s just that high of a gearing. When we first got it I assumed it was like a manual transmission in any other normal car and promptly ground the gears trying to shift it up after starting in the lowest gear. Because sitting on the highway for 5 minutes coming to a complete stop from granny gear and then getting the tractor moving again in its highest gear takes a solid 45 seconds is not exactly super safe I was wondering if tractors can be shifted like a big rig without damaging the transmission Obviously it would take some practice but what is the deal with shifting up like that in a tractor as opposed to a big rig. Do you double clutch? Float the gears? Or are the tractor transmissions just not designed to be shifted while moving and you just select your gear and you move at that speed based on revs until you can come to a complete stop and change it? Any help would be appreciated and if anyone knows any other forums I could ask this question in I would be glad to hear it.
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