I sure agree with you Bruce, when I retired a couple of years ago I sold a 1988 Deere 4850 with 2600 hours and a 1997 Deere 8100 with 2320 hours. With a 16 row planter you could plant close to 200 acres a day with either one of those tractors and would not use over a half a tank of fuel. On the other hand my brother bought a new 4255 out at the ranch in Colorado and the first thing I knew that tractor had 10,000 hours. It had to run every day feeding besides baling hay all summer long. The longest running engines that I was ever around were the engines driving gas compressors which would run 30 to 40,000 hours without an overhaul. These engines were running on natural gas off the well and were running at 50% of rated load and running slower than most engines of their capacity. They were mostly Waukesha, Cat and Gemini engines and were designed to run completely unattended for thirty days at a time.
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