Can You Beat This Tractor Battery Life?

rusty6

Well-known Member
I finally installed the new six volt battery in the Cockshutt 40 this morning. The old one had been very low or dead almost every time I went to use it this summer. Of course it didn't see a lot of use.
I knew it had been a while but could hardly believe the numbers punched out on the sticker on the battery. January of 1999. I had to check my own service records and it is right.
I'm going to call it a good 17 years. Brand name is "Power Surge" and it was a big group 7D? battery.
If the new one lasts as long I'll likely not need to buy another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSPSIDOzd4
 
I have one in a Ferguson about that old. Funny thing is the charging system never has worked so I charge it up once or twice a year. I also have a JD 3010 that the batter last for probably 10 years with no charging system. A few years ago I put new batteries in it and fixed the charging system. Batteries only lasted 2years. Very disappointing. I'm starting to rethink that it's hard on battering to run them down.
 
I took a Gould 12 Volt out of a truck I was junking, that was 15 years ago, still going strong
 
And I felt good because the two 12 volts in the 886
are 12 years old. Maybe 13 now that I think about it.
Again, more proof I'm not as special as I had
hoped.
 
I sold my 2004 Saturn Ion a month ago with the original battery still going strong. It never let me down. Its installed in the trunk which must make a difference.
 
I got a set of '03s in my 8430. Every spring I put the charger on it and good to go for the year. I only put about 50 hours a year on it.
 
(quoted from post at 06:08:10 12/01/16) Batteries only lasted 2years. Very disappointing. I'm starting to rethink that it's hard on batteries to run them down.

It is. My Expedition drains the battery from just sitting and thinking about whatever it's little electronic brain thinks about, often is completely dead in a couple of weeks. They don't like the deep discharge/charge/discharge cycle.
 
Back in 1970 my dad bought a JD 140 garden tractor - top of the line back then. It came with a automotive grade (and size) JD battery. We pounded on that tractor, used it for jump start everything else, lots of mowing, tilling, snow blowing, general farm work. Batttery finally got weak and replaced in 2000. That's 30 years!
 
When I bought my 1952 John Deere "A" it had two Delco 6 volt batteries, they were not new but worked well, finally 18 years later I had
to replace them with a big 12 volt battery, no telling their actual age.
 
I have one in my little 4WD Branson utility tractor that I bought in 2005. Still flips that little diesel right over even on a cold day. Amazes me every time I get on it.

Greg
 
Have a 2003 honda Foreman that we bought new
that still has the original battery in it.
Never been touched and has always started
it...
 
(quoted from post at 07:53:22 12/02/16) Have a 2003 honda Foreman that we bought new
that still has the original battery in it.
Never been touched and has always started
it...
The original equipment batteries in the old Hondas wee good. The 1987 trike I bought about 2003 still had the original battery and I ran it a few more years before it died. Think it was a Yuasa or some such name. I recently installed a new Delco and it did not last six months.
 

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