I think it depends on how many hours a year you have to put on a machine to keep your operation running.
Because of the cost of equipment and the profit levels farms run at now, the farmers I know have all gone to the absolute minimum number of tractors possible. But the tractors that are left have to work like dogs every day of the growing season it seems. Downtime is really painful when you have 1 tractor that can do a given job.
Old tractor lovers, IMO, often over-state how breakdown-prone today's newer stuff really is. My last farming uncle had a Case IH magnum and a Challenger both from brand new, and both machines had over 4000 hours before either one of them had a show-stopping breakdown that prevented them from working. Yes, PM and wear parts got replaced, but that was all done before a breakdown stopped work.
Todays stuff really is very, very good. If you tried to side-by-side work old tractors with tractors made this year for the same number of hours in the same conditions, I don't think the old iron would be as reliable as some people think.
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