How many tractor hours per year?

big bubba · Nov 30, 2020

to me the # of annual hrs doesn't have much meaning. as long as each task allows the engine to warm up properly & work at least 30 minutes or more for each session.
cold starts & short runs are hard on diesels, fouls engine oil quicker. i let engine idle a few minutes after each use to cool down, esp w/turbos

only my opinion: an engine w/ 50 annual hrs of repeated cold short runs is harder on an engine than one w/100+ annual hrs that has been fully worked for each task w/proper warm up & cool down
more qualitative than quantitative i guess for accumulated hrs each year imho

Tractorable · Nov 30, 2020

People have different lives. I’m not retired, work full time, long commute, leave the house at dawn, get home after dark, have to run errands on the weekends, wife wants to do stuff, sometimes need to travel for work, then it rains for a week, blah blah blah, I’m a busy guy.

When I retire all I want to do is drive around on my tractor, it’s my therapy, but until then I gotta do what I gotta do, and the tractoring has to wait.

stevewarner1957 · Dec 1, 2020

60 hrs/yr on my L3830HST. Mowing, tilling, firewood handling are its main functions. It’s been a fantastic tractor, the original battery lasted 13 years. It still looks and runs like new

Rock Crawler · Dec 1, 2020

200 hours a year on my little B2650, but after next year that should drop to very little hours. I am in the end stages of my land fill work.

My co-worker has a 10 year old Kubota that he brings out to hog his 2 acre yard 3 or 4 times a year, he has around 150 hours on it in all this time.

We all do our thing. I seem like I am changing oil every 2-3 months. I do not plow with it, I use a Mule Pro diesel for plowing.

Peter 315 · Dec 1, 2020

stevewarner1957 said:
60 hrs/yr on my L3830HST. Mowing, tilling, firewood handling are its main functions. Itç—´ been a fantastic tractor, the original battery lasted 13 years. It still looks and runs like new

It still has the paint on the bucket I guess not much dirt work.....

bearthebruce · Dec 1, 2020

Tractorable said:
People have different lives. I’m not retired, work full time, long commute, leave the house at dawn, get home after dark, have to run errands on the weekends, wife wants to do stuff, sometimes need to travel for work, then it rains for a week, blah blah blah, I’m a busy guy.

When I retire all I want to do is drive around on my tractor, it’s my therapy, but until then I gotta do what I gotta do, and the tractoring has to wait.

I hear ya. I am there too but probably will not retire until I am 70 at which point I wonder will there be anything left in the tank for tractoring....

Cat_Driver · Dec 1, 2020

Engine meters keep track of your engine's operating hours. Generally, engine meters turn on automatically when the engine is turned on and turn off automatically when the engine is turned off. You can use the total engine hours on your vehicle to estimate how many miles you've traveled since the last meter reset. It's an approximation, at best.
Step 1

Determine how many hours have accumulated on your engine.

Step 2

Multiply the amount of hours on your engine by 60.

Use the number you come up with to estimate how many miles are on your engine. For example, 1,235 hours on an engine equates to approximately 74,100 miles.

sea2summit · Dec 1, 2020

Cat_Driver said:
Engine meters keep track of your engine's operating hours. Generally, engine meters turn on automatically when the engine is turned on and turn off automatically when the engine is turned off. You can use the total engine hours on your vehicle to estimate how many miles you've traveled since the last meter reset. It's an approximation, at best.
Step 1

Determine how many hours have accumulated on your engine.

Step 2

Multiply the amount of hours on your engine by 60.

Use the number you come up with to estimate how many miles are on your engine. For example, 1,235 hours on an engine equates to approximately 74,100 miles.

???? What do 杜iles on an engine have to do with anything? And how fast do you have to drive to get an average speed of 60? My MC keeps track of overall average speed and it痴 under 45 most of the time and it absolutely doesn稚 get driven slow.

The engine doesn稚 care about miles. It spins the same number of times in an hour of driving in 1st gear as it does in an hour of 5th gear. Time is all that matters, if people in vehicles cared more (or if it mattered more) they would track running hours not mileage for maintenance.

NoTrespassing · Dec 1, 2020

I barely use my tractor but can't be without it due to road maintenance and snow removal. I also till gardens but that takes almost no time at all. I cut back on mowing some our acres to once every 3 years to keep the junk trees down.

I bought it used in 2003 with something like 350 hours on it at 4 years old (it's a 1999). It now has about 780 hours for an average of less than 25 hrs. per year since I bought it. I probably use it less than 10 hours per year now so the average will continue to drop.

I think it's still worth about what I paid for it 17 years ago.

Kevin