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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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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! buickanddeere 20:55:22 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Bill in Colo 19:44:46 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! the tractor vet 18:25:41 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! DaYoungPup 11:52:23 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Glen in TX 11:13:34 11/10/06
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- Western versus Eastern farming? jdemaris 10:59:59 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! chris sweetland 10:47:52 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! davpal 09:32:02 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! SMA in NE 06:54:01 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! barnrat 06:38:16 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Brokenwrench 06:27:16 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! PJBROWN 06:27:01 11/10/06
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- Re: Yeah, a 4020 for one jdemaris 05:56:34 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Josh in Pa 05:20:44 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Jimmy King 02:46:58 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Brad in WI 00:27:38 11/10/06
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- Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! T.K. in PA 00:05:07 11/10/06
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