Re: How Long Will A Tractor Last????

Posted by G-MAN on March 22, 2004 at 13:47:31 from (67.52.48.10):

In Reply to: How Long Will A Tractor Last???? posted by ken theobald on March 22, 2004 at 08:50:17:

I think this needs to be put in proper perspective. I doubt that 50 years ago any of the farmers of the time thought that someone would be interested in their new tractor 50 years down the road. Those "toys" we now play with were the "big" tractors on the farm in those days, in most cases. Who's going to want to haul around a dualled-up, weighted up 30,000 lb. Deere 8520, C-IH MW or whatever to shows 50 years from now? Probably not much of anybody. However, a lot of these comments about electronics are pretty far off base. There are certainly MORE electronics on modern tractors, but they're no less reliable than the electronics used on tractors 20 years ago. I can't count how many 50-series Deere tractors I've been around that don't have any electronic problems, even though they have many electronic components on them. Or look at how many 30-series Deeres are still running (4430, etc) and they are a lot more complicated electrically than a 4010. The plain and simple fact of the matter is that the electronics on the new tractors are better than ever before. Failure rates are low, they are generally well-protected from sunlight and the elements, and give excellent service. What with the size and power of the newer machines, they will do the same amount of work in 5 years that a 50-year-old tractor would do in 25 years. There's really no reason to expect them to last 50 years, is there? But I'm willing to bet that SOME of them will still be running 20, 30 and even 40 years from now. Don't forget that there is a HECK of a bunch of "simple" old tractors than ended up in scrapyards for seemingly "minor" problems. None of the new tractors are being built in numbers anywhere near what most of the older tractors were built in, so with a similar attrition rate, there will naturally be far fewer of them around in 50 years.

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