Most Hours in a Single Year - One Tractor

Bill VA

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What are the most hours do you typically put on ONE tractor per year?

For use the JD 5055d sees about 125 hours and getting more every year. All other hours are divided among other tractors.

What is the most hours you typically put on ONE tractor per year and what have you got it doing? Ours is haying and general chores.
 
I have about a dozen tractors they get little to no use. My lawn mower gets the most ! some years maybe 50 hours ? This year was one of the most active for it.
 
I use the Ford 5200 the most. It came with a broken instrument cluster.

I got the cluster replaced several years ago, we decided to go original NH instead of the cheap knockoffs.

The hour meter on it broke at 2.9 hours.

We got it replaced, and it broke at 1.9 hours.

New Holland decided not to warranty it any more at that point. My mechanic saw that gobs of glue were dribbled on the side of the wheels and caused the gears to strip, but NH said it wasn?t their problem.

So, I have no idea how many hours I put on it.

That?s what a person gets for supporting a manufacturer and buying ?quality? items.

Paul
 
Our JD 4600 is used around the tree farm, so it depend on how dry it is, one year as low as 30 hours, last summer was very dry so maybe 70 hours. Once everything is planted it will be just mowing, and the old Farmall C will do some of that, no hour meter on that.
 
Dad and I put a tach, hour meter and speedometer for a 300/350 Farmall on my Super H May of 1969, year after Dad traded my '39 H for it. It was mostly a chore tractor, haul water to hog lots, run 5 miles to town for hog feed 2-3 times a week from early spring to late fall, then fill feeders when home, mow & rake hay, plant corn & soybeans, pull wagon with endgate seeder over 40 acres for this summer's oats and next years hog pasture and hay ground. Rotary hoed 40 acres of corn one year, heavy rain after planting crusted the ground bad, hauled manure, moved all the hog houses and hog feeders and water tanks from old hog pasture to new pasture. Helped pull old hog fence and string-up new hog fence. And as my Boss's always put on my job descriptions at work, "And all other assigned duties. Always ended up right at 250 hours run time every year. Ohhh, had a drive coupling to the transmission of the '51 M crack, split the tractor, replaced all bearings and seals in spare time, tractor down for a month. Super H ground cattle feed for a hour or so every week. M played with the Kneodler burr mill, it took Everything the SH had to run it, it would pull down to 1400 rpm or so, then run back up to 1650, then drop to 1600, never pulled down till it stalled like the '39 H did the one short time we tried grinding with it, last about 5-6 seconds, went from 1650 to Zero with one scoop of earcorn. Tried the 4010 once for about 5 minutes, diesel exhaust in corn crib driveway was terrible.
 
Since I am retired and rent out whats left of farm my tractors get very little use. One tractor has buzz saw and loader gets more use. The IH 450 and Allis Chalmers WD45 get used to pull firewood wagons and sees more hours at tractor shows and pulls.
 
Back in the 'old days' when I only had one tractor,I would put on a thousand hrs a year. Probably still do,but that is divided between several tractors.
 
on out 32 year old 2750 John Deere 4wd which is wore out @ 16K + hours but sill gets used everyday
that's around 505 hour per year.
 
Yes and it was a sad day when I finally realized this inconvenient truth--a person can only drive one tractor at a time!
 
Well going by the age of the tractor and the total hours on the gauge my 1983 Ford 1710 shows 203 hr/yr and my 1987 Cub Cadet shows 77 hr/yr The 1710 was my FIL's tractor until 2015 when it became mine and in the last 3 yrs I have only put about 270 hrs. plowing snow, hauling firewood and general chores and yard cleanup. Even the Cub Cadet gets less hours now with the addition of 2 8n's and the 1710, I use to use it for snow blowing and the firewood chores including hauling logs, now just mowing and rototilling.
 
Not farming but I sold an Aluminum plant 6 new Kubotas once and those tractors all logged over 5,000 hrs each the first year. They pretty much ran 24/7 pulling some kind of little wagons. Back in the 60s AS said study had figured AVERAGE farmer (what ever that is ) put around 560 hr a year on a tractor.
 
some place between 350-500 hrs. on each , Hay making puts the most hours on in the mowing end . This could be reduced with and up grade to a disc bine. Running over a 100 acres a year four times with that piece of junk J D 1219 at a snails pace stack on the hours
 
I just replied above Larry . Yes I run a lot of ours some are a little colder than others
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About 240 on the tractor with the hay mower, 180 or so on the baler tractor, less than 100 on the others. Cat skid loader (on tracks) about 400, dozer 160 or so, other skid loaders maybe 80 to 100 each. The hard worker is the old 7600 Ford with a batwing on it, at 550 per year.
 
I'd bet although too young to have thought to have kept track but the 4010 diesel probably had a 1000 hours per year when there were dairy cows here. Not that we were really big but the 4010 did just about everything over the span of a year and hauled manure almost daily. If the 4010 was really busy then the Oliver 88 went on the spreader. Dad had an arrangement that in exchange for some labor he would provide equipment to fill the neighbor's silo so the 4010 was off the place from time to time.
 
Only about 200 hours a year on a 550 Ford backhoe. Only a few jobs a year. I don't advertise, just do jobs for people close where I can road the tractor to the job.
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I spread the hours across 6 tractors and two swathers. No question my two Kubota tractors get the most hours each year. My one Kubota, GX135 is the yard tractor, feeds cows, loads manure, etc , and gets 400 hours almost every year. My newest Kubota M6 141 , I have had for 18 months, now has 870 hours. Some of my older tractors don?t have a working tacometer, but I would guess some place near 150-200 hours each
 
Put the most ours on a 961D planting corn followed by cutting hay and misc jobs here and there. Hour meter broke, put new one in- didn't last 5 hours. 681 does the bean planting, raking, wagon hauling, auger and spraying. The 5200 does the baling, some hauling while the 7710 does the grunt tillage spring and fall. Doubt if anything gets 50 hours.

Back in dad's day his "big" 860 did the spring tillage on 2 farms, the hay mowing w/ a 7' sickle on 4 farms, baling, corn chopping on 2 farms and picking on 2 farms keeping in mind the chopper and picker were only 1 row! Oh and the fall plowing mostly with 2-14's 101 plow with sheer bolts plus the snow pushing.
 
Nowadays the MF165 average 200, cutting hay, raking, and rotary mowing.The MF265 has a loader, so less hours, round baling, moving bales, a little loader activity. Your question made me reflect on which one is my favorite.
 
Averaged about 450 hours per year on the big tractor when we had livestock, plus another 300 on the loader tractor, maybe 200 on the third tractor. A lot less now, about 300 per year on two tractors.
Ben
 
My 1030 got about 60 hours this year, but I didn't get done with field work before it froze or it would have gotten 100 or so. Don't know what my DC got, but likely it got 100+ hours. Both will get more next year unless I get both other tractors going.
 
(quoted from post at 09:12:21 12/07/18) What are the most hours do you typically put on ONE tractor per year?

For use the JD 5055d sees about 125 hours and getting more every year. All other hours are divided among other tractors.

What is the most hours you typically put on ONE tractor per year and what have you got it doing? Ours is haying and general chores.

WOW! While I realize this is largely a "hobbyist/play with tractors site", SO many posts with low hours of use still surprised me.

When I was a kid, my Dad and my Uncles farmed 1280 acres with two Massey "55" diesels, and, if I remember correctly they EACH racked up the better part of 800-900 hours a year.
I do repair work for several neighbors that farm and raise cattle, and they have tractors that run 4-8 hours a day, 365 days a year. Cattle don't take a day off!


That translates to roughly 1500 to 300 hours a year.

I hope JDseller chimes in with some hour numbers he and his family rack up on tractors in a year with their farming and cattle feeding operation.
 
Well with 10 tractors of various sizes and uses. The big ones probably get maybe 100 hours per year each. Then the rest probably get about the same or a few more each. With lots of tractors we don't hitch much during a season. With the 856 on mower 806 on baler and H,674,574 which any of those on the rake and the 574 loading. 1466 on planter stiegers on tillage 674,806,856. Again not a lot of hours per tractor each year. H,574,674 on augers so can be split up pretty good there also. 574with loader H and skytrac (telehandler) probably get the bulk of the hours as we use then for lifting moving and loading things. The H gets used for a wide variety of jobs from cutting wood to pulling things around.
 

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