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

Posted by Hugh MacKay on November 10, 2006 at 03:39:51 from (216.208.58.139):

In Reply to: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! posted by davpal on November 09, 2006 at 21:25:38:

Dave: There have been a hell of a lot more farmers gone belly up paying the interest on 300 hour per year tractors than guys that worked them 800 hours per year. In our neck of the woods we certainly didn't buy the tractors to look at. One criteria I always had in deciding to buy a new tractor, is if there wasn't 800 hours per year work for it then I didn't need it nor could I afford it. These things always were a pricy little item to sit around and look at.

Around these parts we've got a whole host of those 300 hour per year guys, out in public places with that long lineup of new iron, demonstrating to the public how hard done by they are. Many of them cash cropping less than 1,500 acres with $1,500,000. investment in equipment. these guys may be a bit more credible if they were out there on open station 50 year old tractors. I was talking with a friend, few weeks back at an auction. He was telling me his banker advised him not to buy equipment this fall. By spring it's going to be fire sale pricing.

By the way, my friend with 6 machines doing 3,000 hours per year each, owned his own single axle fuel truck. In a mere 25 years he went from a school kid with nothing to having a net worth of $6,000,000. Didn't do that looking at equipment.

Did you ever grease those pivot pins on the White? We changed those on forestry machines every 9,000 hours. Maybe Deere uses better pivots than White.

Replies:

• Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! billonthefarm 06:03:09 11/10/06 (0)
• Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! TomTX 04:50:23 11/10/06 (2)
  • Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Hugh MacKay 21:00:40 11/10/06 (0)
  • Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! kyhayman 10:23:15 11/10/06 (0)
• Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Allan In NE 04:09:51 11/10/06 (1)
  • Re: 30,000 hours on a tractor???!!! Hugh MacKay 21:25:38 11/10/06 (0)

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