Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!!

Posted by DaYoungPup on November 10, 2006 at 11:52:23 from (4.255.74.0):

In Reply to: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! posted by davpal on November 09, 2006 at 21:25:38:

It's very possible to put 25-30K hours on one.

The old grape harvester I just purchased I'm sure had 13K+ hours on the old engine. And it has a 1969 Ford 3000 tractor to power it, just changed out the engine this year.

Mind you, this grape harvester was one of the first to roll off the assembly line in the late 60's. Until it came on the seance, everything was hand picked. The original owner's grandson and I are college buddies and we tried to figure out how many hours it had. Early on, it ran at least 10 hours a day for 30-40 days harvesting. So that is 300-400 hours in one year and did this for about most of it's life under the original owner. For 5 years, it ran 20 hours a day (two or three crews running it). It shut down just long enough to fuel up, clean the belts and change the engine oil. That's 600-800 hours per year. The operation was sold off in about 1990, 21 years after it was purchased.

5 years @ 600-800 hours
16 years @ 300-400
21 years total= 7800-10400

My buddies grandmother says, as far as she can recall, the engine was never overhauled.

For the last 15 years, under the second owner, it probably has been running less. About 20 days a season, at 10 hours a day. In the last 15 years, it's racked up 3000 hours. And the second owner didn't do any engin work to it.

So the running total is 10800 to 13400 hours in just 36 years. And that's a seasonal machine only.

And that is just a conservative estimate.

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