How many tractor hours per year?

[Budweiser John]

125.6 hours per year on my New Holland TC45D in 19 years of ownership.
Most uses revolve around loader work with the material bucket, grapple, or pallet forks.

Tractor has never spent a night in the rain and lives in my heated shop building in the winter time.
I am amused at the number of ‘city bob’ friends who ask me,
“How long ago did ya get that new tractor”
When I tell them it’s old enough to vote the deer in the headlights look is priceless....

B. John

 

[oosik]

My tractor lives in a LARGE unheated carport. I have more than enough problems with mice & chipmunks in this carport stall. If it were heated - might as well put up the "Open House" signs for the rodents. I recently acquired a farm cat and the rodent situation is in serious abeyance.

Peter - I would like to take credit for being able to retire early. It's simply not the case. I tend to spend like a drunken sailor. My wife takes care of all the finances and keeps me in line. She deserves all the credit. My spending was a rather sore subject. Up until the day she showed me that I could retire and we could live quite well.

 

[Smokeydog]

About 100hrs a year each on two tractors. We are retired now and given up on the livestock.

 

[Budweiser John]

My tractor lives in a LARGE unheated carport. I have more than enough problems with mice & chipmunks in this carport stall. If it were heated - might as well put up the "Open House" signs for the rodents. I recently acquired a farm cat and the rodent situation is in serious abeyance.
I don稚 have any problems with rodents but we have 11 neutered barn cats on the job (my wife痴 baby痴) that earn their keep doing rodent patrol. My wife, always looking for deductible expenses questioned our CPA about writing off the cost of cat chow and with the CPA痴 blessing, The rest is history. Haven稚 yet been required to pay withholding on those employees yea.

B. John

 

[bearthebruce]

About 100 hours per year, brush hogging, trail building, driveway maintenance, and any other use we can figure. We also have a UTV on which we have put 250 miles in 2 years. It too is used as a work horse depending on what we are tackling.

 

[old and tired]

50 hours/year - we only mow trails through 12 acres and minimum work needed on mile long driveway (which reminds me, I need to fix some wash areas from a couple of rain storms!)

 

[Oaktree]

I'm probably in the 60-75 hr./yr. range average.

Rodents aren't a big problem, always had a cat or two that kept them under control.

 

[TheMan419]

We own an 18 acre horse farm. We put about 130 hours a year on it. We use the tractor for just about every task imagineable. Just about any task can be made easier by the application of horsepower. First time I was home to help clean stalls wife grabs the wheelbarrow.... say what? We have a tractor for that. Never looked back she uses it all the time for that now.

I suspect the hours will go down because we just bought a zero turn so I expect that to take over a good bit of the mowing work as it is purpose built for doign so.

 

[TX Chris]

I live on 8 acres in the city. Roughly 5 acres heavily wooded with dense brush undergrowth and 3 acres wide open. I have 5 kids and a full time (plus some) commitment to my small business. I spend most of my off time with the missus and kiddos and that doesn't leave much time for playing with the tractor. I may be the lowest hourly user on here. My 2016 L3901 had less than 150 hours on it when it signed off last week. I'm replacing it with an MX5400 that'll probably never see more than 100 hours in a year. Maybe when I retire or we buy some land near a lake.

 

[TnAndy]

Bought my Yanmar spring of 2011, so it's coming up on 10 years old and has just shy of 2100 hours......so bit over 200hrs/yr.