Judging hours
- Thread starter Seth470
- Start date
- Location
- North West
Usually the peddles are a pretty good sign of how much work a machine has done, if the tread pattern has worn off it’s done quite a bit of work. You can usually tell by the general condition though, how much play there is in the lift arms, draft link, hook ends etc.
However a good test drive is as good a check as anything, if it’s got 3k/h on the clock but feels like everything is loose and rattling when you go down the road chances are it’s more like 13k
However a good test drive is as good a check as anything, if it’s got 3k/h on the clock but feels like everything is loose and rattling when you go down the road chances are it’s more like 13k
Lincs Lass
Member
- Location
- north lincs
Bit hard to tell really ,,you can get a 20 yr old tractor thats been barn stored for years and only have 2-3000 hrs on and then a 3 years old might have twice that .
Lincs Lass
Member
- Location
- north lincs
Ive seen lots of adverts for tractors ,,hours unknown ,clock stopped working at X hours ,X many years ago but still runs as it should ,if the owner doesnt know how many more its done ,a new buyer hasnt got a hope .
- Location
- Shropshire
Well we have a 885 brown here that’s done the clock twice before the clock stopped and if I told you it had done 4000 I’d bet you would believe me
- Location
- Shropshire
Looks and feels a damn sight better than the Massey 390 that’s done 12000
- Location
- Co antrim
Was it sittin on a barley crusher not movin around?
- Location
- Shropshire
No idea way before my time sits in a shed now and and does a week on the saw bench and the odd day scraping up if the 390 throws a wobbly
- Location
- Shropshire
Still starts first time and doesn’t smoke or out so she’s a good bus far as I’m concerned and no rust