How Many Hours Do You Spend on Your Tractor(s)?

[duffer]

Bought mine in mid 2016 right when I started building a house and 10 acres of land. During and right after construction I put a ton of hours on it. Probably 400 the first year. Another 300/yr the 2nd thru 5th, and now probably 150 yr since. Total right now, of 1950 & change in just under 8 years.

 

[5030]

Depends entirely on how much and many times I cut hay and plow the drives of snow. I'd say a couple hundred hours a year on each one. I use my cab tractor for snow removal (obviously) and the open station stays in the barn all winter. This year because of the not normal weather, I got only 2 cuts of hay (going to do the second cut) shortly. Nice thing is, it's all sold ahead of time and has been for over 5 years now. Some years 3 cuts, this year 2, all in net wrapped round bales and picked up in the field as well.

For me, the tractors are for work only and why I own larger units.

Both of mine are non emissions units as well, both turbocharged and charge air cooled and I have no desire to own a new emissions compliant tractor. Both get maintained regularly and neither has given me any issues of consequence (other than replacing the outboard seals on the open station FWA axle just recently). The OS unit has just over 6000 hours on it and the cab tractor just turned 5000 hours and I fully expect both of them to outlast me.

No payments here and no new tractors either. No mortgage payment either.

 

[Runner]

2007 JD 2520 here. Currently at about 760 hours, average 45 hours/year.

Use is varied and includes plowing snow (2 or 3 plowable storms per year), finish mowing (1.5 hrs/week from April through October), brush hogging pasture (9 hrs/year), chipping branches (variable from a couple of hours/year to almost 50 in the last year) and the rest is general duty, pallet forks, moving trailers, loader work, etc.

My machine doesn't get a lot of hours on it, but no way I could get by without it.

As of this year, the finish mowing has been transferred to my Cub Cadet ZTXS5 54 ZTR.

Location - Missouri, and open station. Could never get under all my trees with cab.

 

[dodge man]

Roughly 90 hours a year, western Illinois open station. I mow my 2 acre lawn with a mid mount and it’s been a little dry so less than normal.

 

[DIYOrangeDave]

No mowing and about 100 hours per year. Snow removing, gravel road and yard maintenance. Firewood and anything else heavy that needs lifting or moving. BX25D

 

[rScotty]

We no longer have horses, acreage, long roads, or mowing...we've downsized to just a few retirement acres in the rural rocky mtns along a trout stream. I build stone walls as a hobby and we maintain a couple of wooded acres.

The hours per year are deceptive. There is no way we could do without the FEL and backhoe. Being older, we constantly use both FEL and backhoe to do lifting and carrying chores we can no longer do by hand. But the total hours of run time are low.

Our open cab Kubota (1500 hrs) gets most of the work, which amounts to 50 to 100 hours a year.

Our larger tractor is an ex-construction cabbed JD 310 (6000+ hrs) which gets even less work. Basically only special chores like snow removal after blizzards. Or anytime a big heavy tractor is needed. That amounts to a few hours a year, but it's necessary.

rScotty

 

[BackRoad]

1200 hours in 4.5 years on my open station Kubota MX6000. Mostly land clearing, then mowing, driveway mntc, snow removal.

I added a lot of hours moving over 100 CY of dirt building up the grade for my house build.

 

[Thomas]

Years back lot of hours on the tractor,but now I have the land the way I want it lot less hours 100-125 year.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

There's are close to 1,400 hrs on the M6040 (cab) since '10, so about 60/year on average.

The open L3800 has almost 500 on it since '13, so close to 41 hrs/year.

Meanwhile, the open BX25D bought in '14 is still not at 150, for somewhat obvious reasons. And the hours would be much lower if that tiny backhoe could indeed do some actual work without taking forever.

But if it could, I wouldn't have bough the Kioti 2620, also open, that arrived a bit late for its intended purpose and consequently has about two hours on it after about six months. Those hours were mostly to get a feel for it than for actual work.

 

[Hoobie]

Average 175 hrs.