Whats the most hours youve seen on a tractor?

56oliver

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A friend of mine has a deutz 6206 with 9600 hours on it and he knows for a fact that its turned over once. Seems like a lot of hours to me. Whats the most youve seen on a tractor?
 
I have a JD 2120 with 11,000 hrs; neighbours 4440 has 19,000. I'm sure many older tractors without a meter would easily exceed those.

Ben
 
I've got an 826 IH that shows 9000+ hours on the tach and it has been broken for 20 years so it probably has at least 15000 hours on it now. The motor has been rebuilt once. Some of the land leveling guys will put 20,000 hours on a tractor, maybe more. Some of the bigger feed lots can put 1500-2000 hours a year on a tractor.
 
My last truck had 25,000 hours and 1 million miles in less than 8 years. Motor and trany were untouched.
 
One of my customers had a 861 Ford Diesel 5 speed that had over 35,000 hours on it. The
engine had been rebuilt 4 times.I rebuilt it the last time it was rebuilt. It had broken 2
crankshafts,the clutch had been replaced at least 8 times. The ring gear and pinon replaced
twice.All the bearings n the transmission had been replaced once or twice. This was his
primary tractor. It pulled a round baler, a square baler, a corn chopper, a mounted corn
picker and had a side arm loader on it.He passed away a few years back, but as far as I
know the tractor is still running.
 
We have a deutz 6206 21 560 hr origal
moter last year befor we rebuilt it
and still going strong. Back ends
been open 2 times an on second clutch
just carnt kill it. Over 23 000 now
but only run around tractor now. Also
got a 7206 be pushing 20 000 if tacho
still worked. Its on third moter
rebuild but was word to death when we
bought it with 10 000 hrs on it now
runs tmr mixer. Dx 6.30 14 500 hrs on
it all origanal as far as we know we
had it since 8 000 hrs as main
tractor till last year when we
bourght 7800 jd with 7 500 hrs.

I did work on a farm in 2015/2016
with a 7800 jd pushd out 22 000 hrs.
Still going strong as main tractor on
1500 ac cotton farm traded it when I
left on a 8310 jd I think. Other
tractor they had was a 6400 jd
 
My 706 has 11,700+ hrs with no o-haul.My 1256 just turned over 20,000 hrs.Local guy has an 856 with over 50,000.But most of those
are stationary running a pump nonstop.He says it only get shut off every few days to check oil.
 
We had a 656 GAS that my father bought new. It has well over 21,000 hours with 3 overhauls and the hour meter didn't work for several years. The TA was rebuilt once - but it was run several years with the low side out. Brother bought it (still owns it) and replaced the engine instead of overhauling it a 4th time. It spent years on the planter, running the baler, mowers, cultivating, and being the chore tractor in the winter (so we didn't start in a diesel) feeding sileage and running the grinder mixer. With 8 boys and a narrow front end and farming the hills in NE Kansas it was never rolled either. The transmission and the hydraulics are on their last legs.

Ran 87 or lower octane fuel in it the entire time too.

The only one I know that had more hours was an 886 we owned for 20 years.
 
One thing to remember is how hours are measured. My 826 IH and 4630 Ford measures tach hours. My backhoe and new tractors measure clock hours. Depending on how a tractor is used there can be a significant difference.
 
Saw a JD R at the Fairview, Ok. show some yrs. ago, that had 18,000 hrs. on it
& the main engine had never been touched. Had done minor work on the pony
engine. He brought it to the show directly out of the hay field.
 

This months Classic Tractor Magazine in Britain has an article on high houred tractors here.

1993 Fendt 305LSA = 30,613 hours

1981 MF 698T = 20,027 hours

2001 JD 6910 = 20,004 hours

1994 MF 3085 = 23,416 hours

At the other end of the scale a dealer has traded-in a 2003 MF 4345 + loader he sold new to a business man who had a small hobby farm.

In 11 years it had only done 266 hours from new!

Its just been sold in auction for $37,500
 
Those with 2 stroke Yamahas got a government subsidy for dust control before the EPA
came about, even the 60 series would be a DD if it didn't leak oil.
 
I understand that a power unit on a sawmill runs with a an almost constant load without lugging and usually runs all day with one start up. Most tractors get some abuse
 
neighbor traded his 7060Ac with 16000 hours on it with no engine work for a new JD that went 2200 hours before it needed a total overhaul.
 
Not a tractor, per se. but I loaded a D8 Cat out of a Ritchie Bros sale at Detroit a few years back that showed 80,000 hrs on a working tach. Machine was not that old and did not look bad for that many hours. it had spent its life at a Detroit Edison power plant, pushing coal ( not a hard life) It was likely only ever shut off to fuel and other maintenance. It went to Mexico.
 
(quoted from post at 06:48:24 05/29/15) One thing to remember is how hours are measured. My 826 IH and 4630 Ford measures tach hours. My backhoe and new tractors measure clock hours. Depending on how a tractor is used there can be a significant difference.

I was just talking to a guy about the different tachs and drives....he said someone forgot to turn off the key to one of their newer tractors when they put it away for the winter and it had a ton of hours on it in the spring when they went to start it up....
 
I have a JD 6400 that has 17500 hours with a blown head gasket being the only internal engine work. It was my main loader tractor for years. It still is used everyday.
 
15,000 on a john deere 8400 at time of engine overhaul got the tractor out of arizona with 9000 ran it up to 15 and overhauled the engine
ran it to 18000 And traded it.
 

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