Just short of a year

Bruce from Can.

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And my new tractor now has gone over 500 hours. Dang it is hard to keep the hours off.
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If you didn't need to put the hrs on it you wouldn't need the tractor.Question is farming are you doing something valuable enough to pay for what those hrs are costing you?
 
Dang,and I thought I was putting them on the 1365 in a hurry. I put a new tach on that one four years ago and have 1125 on it since then.
 
I have sold several of the M 6/7 s that are running 24/7 in feed operations . Saw one in for service the other day right around 2100 hrs.. What we usually expect from a farmer in this part of the country is 500 to 800 a year.
 

I have been told that if you don't put 500 hours a year on it that you didn't need to buy it. Of course nobody really needs to justify an additional tractor.
 
In a year or two, you will be able to convince your wife that you need a new tractor....😊
Ben
 
We got a new forklift at work last year and on its 1 yr birthday was just over 6000 hrs. We usually try to get 35-40000 hours out of a machine most of them still on the original motor (Volkswagen) and the hydrostatic drives have never been touched. 500 hour oil change on engines and 5000 hour change on the HYd oil. Regular maintanance goes along way in the life of a machine.

Ranch
 
How do the hours compare between "ignition on time" electronic hour meters and the older mechanical hour meters that measured "engine hours at full rated RPM"? There might not be much difference for a tractor used mostly for tillage, road travel and PTO work, but I would think there would be a big difference for a loader tractor that spends most of its time at reduced RPM and may idle a lot. Could the "ignition on time" hours be 50% higher or more for a loader tractor?
 
I have wondered that too, but I do know this for sure. Nearly every hour that is on that clock, my butt has been in the seat. And that isn?t the only tractor on the farm. And I cut most of the hay with a self propelled swather. I spend a fair bit of time looking across the hood of a tractor
 
Close to it. Even the hard working tractor is going to get plenty of idle/low speed time. Before I "retired" from the farm machinery business in the mid eighties, I recall replacing a tach/hour meter on warranty. I didn't run into the owner until I had left and gone a mile down the road. Fortunately he was coming back the same way(on a JD 520 w/four row front mounted cultivator!) I had wanted to question him. Sure enough, he thought something was wrong with this new tractor piling hours up so fast! I explained it's operation, and offered to put the original tach back in, but he said don't bother.
 
I find low rpm loader work they go on twice as fast had they been hours at 540 pto speed like the old clocks, field high rpm work about the same.
 
I have never ever seen tbe hour meter on a real tractor that would count hours with the key on engine not running
 
When the oil pressure comes up on that tractor enough for the injectors to work (engine run) the hour meter starts and is not engine sped variable. For ever hour the engine is running at what ever RPM it is counting an hour.. MOST all new tractors that have a CPU controlled engine are that way.
 
What I found was when they went to electric hour meters that chore tractors put on about double the hours. If you think about it you rarely run a chore tractor at rated engine speed. So if it is a mechanical tachometer it would not be putting many hours on when ran slower.

I used a JD 4020 to run the TMR wagon for years. I loaded everything with the JD 6400. Those two tractors ran the same about of time each day as they both where started at the same time and shut of real close to the same time. I would put between 900-1000 hours a year on the JD 6400 and around 500-600 on the JD 4020.
 
Must not be a Deere. I got a Yellow John Deere and you couldn't take a picture of the hour meter that you could read. I have to get a flash light and get up close to the meter to read it. That and the Murry lawnmower sryle fuel guage is only a couple of things that I hate about that tractor.
 
Uncle was a mechanic for many years, he said that hour meters automaticly add on 30 min. every time power switch was turned on
 
(quoted from post at 18:06:42 03/12/18) Uncle was a mechanic for many years, he said that hour meters automaticly add on 30 min. every time power switch was turned on

But you didn't believe him did you?
 

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