What happens to older tractors?

[Greythundercloudys]

Where does these old tractor go, 2000, 2009, reg tractors, there still seams to be good money in them but who buys them, do they go abroad?

 

[Dave W]

Is that a real question?

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Yes, who buys them, l don't know any one who would buy a 12 year old tractor.

 

[Dave W]

Yes, who buys them, l don't know any one who would buy a 12 year old tractor.

What planet is that on?

 

[Robt]

dont worry, I know i few people that buy 13 year old tractors. So wait a year and I'll give you their number

 

[Optimus]

I often wonder the same thing.plenty 2010 onwards but but not so many before.

 

[Fish]

I sold 2 this year, one 19 years old, one 11 years. 11 year old machine is happily working down in Nottinghamshire, the other I'm not sure where it is, but it will still be working.

 

[Dave W]

Perhaps they could all be on farms earning a living??

 

[Dry Rot]

Two in the shed. One 1992, the other 1974. both regularly in harness.

 

[Hesston4860s]

Is that a real question?

it can’t be can it !.
I haven’t even anything that new, ones an 87 the other 2 are 91 and 99 even the loadall‘s getting on now being an 02 but still only on 2550hrs.

 

[Dave W]

it can’t be can it !.
I haven’t even anything that new, ones an 87 the other 2 are 91 and 99 even the loadall‘s getting on now being an 02 but still only on 2550hrs.

Must be nice living in James dysons world

 

[GeorgeK]

And then there's all the people who can't understand how the cost of brand new machinery stacks up! "If you don't spend it you ain't got to earn it"
I know all my old stuff is sat in the shed not doing anything in this rain, but at least it was all paid for a long time ago

 

[Still Farming]

Places that are completing with out markets, don't have rules and regs, give a monkey's about effects of climate change their carbon footprints etc etc most likely.

 

[michael N123]

sent abroad or broke for parts of there rougher most likely

 

[Spud]

it can’t be can it !.
I haven’t even anything that new, ones an 87 the other 2 are 91 and 99 even the loadall‘s getting on now being an 02 but still only on 2550hrs.

Blimey, I have a 2001 loadall passed 11000hrs, an 05 nearly at 12,000 and a 12 reg knocking on the door of 7000hrs!

I often wonder the same thing.plenty 2010 onwards but but not so many before.

Clearly you operate in an affluent area.

Where does these old tractor go, 2000, 2009, reg tractors, there still seams to be good money in them but who buys them, do they go abroad?

Strewth, they're still young machines at that! I bought a 2005 MF7490 earlier this year for extra capacity/backup/hire tractor replacement

Yes, who buys them, l don't know any one who would buy a 12 year old tractor.

I have 94, 01, 2x05, 10, 12, 13 & 2x15 reg tractors and forklifts in the fleet, all do a job, occasionally all together.

Most recent purchase was the 05 tractor, bought with 10,000hrs as a backup tractor. It's only done 300hrs since March, but they've been important hours.

I know a man that runs older Fendts, never bought one under 7000hrs, most over 10yo.

To me it depends on enterprises and workload. Root and cow farms need higher numbers of tractors than combinable arable or sheep farms for example. For me, if they have a workload of 1000hrs+, I want them new or at least under 3000hrs when they arrive, not too fussed on age, but frontliners want to be fairly young, or we finish up with everything knackered at the same time. If they only do 2-300hrs a year, condition is more important than age or hours. Occasionally these lower rung tractors start here new and stay a long time, sometimes they're bought in their twilight years.

 

[40 series]

98 yoke here does 1000hrs a year. Why spend 3x the money to do the same job and earn the same money

 

[Muck Spreader]

IMO the newer the tractor the bigger the bills. Tier 1 models are as new as I risk.

 

[Kildare]

Thousands come to Ireland and when we finished with them they are exported to a poorer country. All the zetors and belaras are bought up too and back poland

 

[Spud]

98 yoke here does 1000hrs a year. Why spend 3x the money to do the same job and earn the same money

How many hrs has it done in total, and what had it done when you bought it?

 

[David.]

Where does these old tractor go, 2000, 2009, reg tractors, there still seams to be good money in them but who buys them, do they go abroad?

Well that is exactly what I am looking for, but I am a bit Jurassic Farm...
I am beginning to wonder where they are all hiding too.