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

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Posted by davpal on November 09, 2006 at 21:25:38 from (216.93.96.21):

I see some of the posts below where some of the guys are talking 30,000 hours on a tractor. That would be one that I would have to see to believe. I agree with Allen, I don't see it happening. I worked on a farm when I was younger that farmed 2000 acres. They bought a new 4-180 white in 1976 that was their primary tillage tractor. It got used to do everything and this was way back before no till was being used. It had to plow, chisle plow, disk, field cultivate, run grain carts to the elevator, you name it, we did it with that tractor. It was bought it 1976 and when I quit there in 1983 it had roughly 2000 hours on it. So it averaged around 300 hours a year doing all that work. It had to have a clutch put in it and the center pins rebuilt at the very least. The original tires were long gone and replaced with radial duals last I saw it. It later got parked and sold at auction and replaced by three big Case Ih 4wds with 50 foot equipment. I don't think I have ever seen a tractor with more than 6000-7000 hours on it. Not that they are not out there, but show me one with 30,000! My white has 4770 hours on it and it was used most of its life to farm 1000 acres. It is a 1975 so that is about 154 hours a year for the last 31 years. I personally don't know how anybody could afford the fuel to run one 30,000 hours! Lets see, mine burns 6.5 gallons per hour under load X 30,000 which equals about 195,000 gallons of fuel at about $2.50 per gallon or roughly $487,500 dollars. I guess I can see why a lot of farmers have gone belly up over the years.

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