Re: Old vs. New tractors

Posted by greywynd on February 11, 2005 at 08:11:36 from (209.226.236.29):

In Reply to: Re: Old vs. New tractors posted by Kelly C on February 10, 2005 at 06:58:53:

I guess it all depends on who you are and how you go about things. I sometimes run a John Deere 7420 plowing snow for a local 'farmer'. Yes, he is a farmer in his late 40's?, his father still farms, as well as his 2 brothers, also most of the next generation is getting into it now too. Being 'aggressive' and business savy(IMO), they keep expanding the operation. I really have no idea how much land they own/lease/farm, I've heard that they own 2-3000 acres among the family members, they also rent/lease a lot more. As the farming got bigger, they also started into trucks, they now have a small fleet of highway trucks, with it's own dispatcher etc. Number of years ago, they got the contract from the local city for spreading the 'manure' sludge from the treatment plant. Eventually, they started an 'environmental' division, that spreads manure for local farmers, for the city, whatever. When they wanted to take out some fence bottom years ago, they started buying dozers and excavators. Last year another 'division' (I think ran by one of the older 'next generation') built a golf course.
A lot of these projects are turned into partnerships, so that they have a return for years to come. I really have no idea how big that they have become. I know the farm tractors are mounted with snow plows to do snow removal contracts. When we were out yesterday, there were at least 6 tractors, with the 7420 I ran being one of the smaller ones. There's a 14' front blade on it, and a 12' rear blade on it. The larger side there's 2 wheel loaders, one with a 22' blade, one has a 24'. I understand that just one of the snow contracts are worth 70K a year, and that's only one of 25? I also hear that his liability insurance for the snow removal is 40K a year....

These guys just look at it as an extension of the farm. As the bigger cities get closer, they are taking advantage by hiring out to the big city. Personally, I wouldn't even want to thing about the stress etc. that these guys endure.

I still like my 541 offset Ford for plowing snow at home to boot!

Mark

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