The most hours we ran was back in the late 1970s to the mid 1980s.
886 averaged over 1800 per year the first 5 years we owed it. Between round the clock field work and planting in the spring, nonstop baling and swathing in the summer, some field work and silage cutting in the fall and several hours a day on the grinder and the feed wagon in the winter it flat never sat in one spot much more than overnight. We had 7 tractors(4586, 1586, 1486, 886, 656, 240, H, the H and 240 only mowed hay and ran augers) and 7 or 8 operators at the time. If there was a tractor running it was the 886.
Before that the high hours tractor was our 656 it was run the same way - only with huge amounts of hours culivating - it wasn't uncommon to see it baling hay with with the front mount culivators tied up high so it wouldn't mess up the windrows. It would run the baler for most of the day then back to the field to culivate well past dark. The hour meter quit working on it back in 1974 or 1975 - with over 8000 hours on it (5-6 years old). Again, if there was only one tractor running it was the 656. Of all of them the 656 is the only one we still own.
Our lightest use tractor was the biggest - the 4586 usually only clocked about 500-600 hours a year. It did some custom field work as it was one of the biggest tractors in our area at the time and it had to pay for itself.
We don't run nearly that many hours today as we don't do near the cattle and no hogs so there is a lot less hay and forage to deal with winter and summer. That and most of the farming is done around off the farm jobs.
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