how many hours is on your highest houred tractor?

[Robert K]

It will be run in soon then!

Yes low houred second hand though

 

[Spud]

Not strictly a tractor, but our shunter wagon today. Cummins 6bt, Allison auto box and Eaton axle. Ex DHL, she's from 1996. Starts on half a turn of the starter even on a cold day.

 

[Deerefarmer]

Seems I remember a profi write up featuring a contractor in the UK who had purchased a new 7810 deere, had 19k hrs at time of interview, anyone know if its still going?
I thought at the time that was fairly impressive...

 

[Pond digger]

My Volvo A25c has over 17000 hrs...................... soon be run in.

 

[kiwi pom]

Seems I remember a profi write up featuring a contractor in the UK who had purchased a new 7810 deere, had 19k hrs at time of interview, anyone know if its still going?
I thought at the time that was fairly impressive...

That was Preston's I think and they had a 6810 with around 20,000 on it too. No idea if its still going though.
There's a dairy farmer on youtube from new York state somewhere that has a bunch of high hour Deere's. A 4250(?) with 35,000 on it. Fairly rough shape though.



Why do I always remember random s**t and forget the important stuff?

 

[KennyO]

 

[Johnny Deere]

I've a coupe of tractors here with 15k hours on them.
If I continue to mind them as they have been they would pass for 8k hour examples on another few years

 

[farmerm]

The clock stopped on the Ford 6610 about 20 years ago so I haven't got a clue..... 10K perhaps

 

[Gerbert]

TS135A 10,000 hours, 14 years old. Forwards and reverse solenoids and an electronic spool valve replaced, that's it. Still our main tractor but we have a backup. I am looking to replace it, but how will I find anything as good? It's compact, good power for size, comfortable, good on the road. It's never actually broken down once, the solenoids were only done because they were getting 'sticky', they still worked ok
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Don't.
10,000 hours leaves plenty life for more. I don't care about hours, if she's good, she's good.

 

[Clive]

10k hours is nothing these days if a tractor is serviced properly and looked after I would expect twice that before its no use


new tractors may be more expensive than ever but they are also better than ever and just like cars are lasting far longer

 

[Clive]

there are people putting 2 k plus hours a year on - I know one contractor who reckons to do 3k hrs a year - at 3 to 5 years old these tractors will not be scrap or worthless by any stretch of the imagination

 

[Sharpy]

10k hours is nothing these days if a tractor is serviced properly and looked after I would expect twice that before its no use


new tractors may be more expensive than ever but they are also better than ever and just like cars are lasting far longer

Why did you change your 724 then?

 

[Clive]

Why did you change your 724 then?

Simply because the price was right, I would have happily kept it to 10k though if it hadn't been - in 5yrs 5k hrs ist had pretty much no issues or downtime at all

I plan to keep our current machines to 10k but this is flexible if situations change or the right deal to change come up

 

[Spud]

Simply because the price was right, I would have happily kept it to 10k though if it hadn't been - in 5yrs 5k hrs ist had pretty much no issues or downtime at all

I plan to keep our current machines to 10k but this is flexible if situations change or the right deal to change come up

Did you change a 2014 724, but keep a 2013 one (the one on your wet weather drill in the other thread) - why was that?

 

[7610 super q]

10k hours is nothing these days if a tractor is serviced properly and looked after I would expect twice that before its no use


new tractors may be more expensive than ever but they are also better than ever and just like cars are lasting far longer

I think we need 50 years to pass to know if that statement is true. Whilst newer tractors don't just disappear, modern electric stuff will be an expensive nightmare for the second / third / fourth hand owner. ECU's, potentiometers , sensors etc, are expensive. And not readily found at spurious suppliers.

 

[Sharpy]

Simply because the price was right, I would have happily kept it to 10k though if it hadn't been - in 5yrs 5k hrs ist had pretty much no issues or downtime at all

I plan to keep our current machines to 10k but this is flexible if situations change or the right deal to change come up

Fair enough!

 

[Brisel]

I think we need 50 years to pass to know if that statement is true. Whilst newer tractors don't just disappear, modern electric stuff will be an expensive nightmare for the second / third / fourth hand owner. ECU's, potentiometers , sensors etc, are expensive. And not readily found at spurious suppliers.

I'm sure a market place will spring up for these parts as modern higher tech machines get older. A post BPS farming world will see machines kept for longer IMO when Fendt etc are no longer the recipient of non existent farming subsidies. In the past they would be exported.

 

[7610 super q]

I'm sure a market place will spring up for these parts as modern higher tech machines get older. A post BPS farming world will see machines kept for longer IMO when Fendt etc are no longer the recipient of non existent farming subsidies. In the past they would be exported.

There was a video on here a while back showing defunct NH' s unloaded from containers to be repaired on t'other side of the world. Cheap labour ? cheap parts ? Or the crap stripped out of them and returned to basics ? I dunno.

 

[Lowland1]

There was a video on here a while back showing defunct NH' s unloaded from containers to be repaired on t'other side of the world. Cheap labour ? cheap parts ? Or the crap stripped out of them and returned to basics ? I dunno.

I remember returning a hire tractor with my Dad once. The chap we hired it from had just bought several ford 5000's and 6600's from an estate that had done 8 or 9000 hours each my Dad was offered them but said they'd be worn out . However thinking about it now repairing these types of tractors is far simpler than my new New Holland's that have obscelence built in. A 5000 could go on for many years a t7 can be grounded by a faulty handbrake switch.

 

[Clive]

I think we need 50 years to pass to know if that statement is true. Whilst newer tractors don't just disappear, modern electric stuff will be an expensive nightmare for the second / third / fourth hand owner. ECU's, potentiometers , sensors etc, are expensive. And not readily found at spurious suppliers.

machines have never been easier to diagnose and repair than they are today

it’s just a different skill set and “tool box” required

next generation have those skills and tools unlike us

overhead cams were once complex !