Tractor Hours/Year

[Complete Turf Care]

It seems I've answered this question before on here, but I can't find it.

I average about 200 hours per year on my 3 main tractors.

 

[old and tired]

I've been constant about 50 hours/year (backed it up with 20 years owning and just shy of 960 hours).

 

[RjCorazza]

I average about 120 hours per year on the tractor, and 400-500 hours per year on my diesel zero turn.

 

[FullMetalBucket]

Just a hair under 50 hours on my T25 this first season and I don’t even live on the property up north yet. I’ll bring it in to the dealer for the first service then do the rest in my own. Always do that with my motorcycles as well.

 

[Billrog]

1,100 hrs. just over a yr.

 

[redman135]

When I was stock farming, about 600 hrs/yr.
Last year was appprox 200.

 

[5030]

My JD 4255 that I purchased in '93 has 12,000 hrs showing on speed/hr meter. I used it in my custom hay baling operation.

Oldie but goody...My 2001 M9 has just a tad over 5500 hours on it and the 02 M9 has 4500 on it but I bought it used so I didn't put all the hours on it.

Seems as though with larger units like we have, hours are not a factor in reselling them, not that I would simply because I have no desire to own a T4-5 compliant tractor.

 

[UvaRules]

2005 BX2230 with 240 hours total. Probably only 10-15 hours a year to plow snow, move mulch and grade the road as needed. I've got a two car garage that holds one car and one tractor. My car always stays outside

 

[paulsharvey]

My Ck2610, I'm at 116.0 and getting close to 2 years. My L285 before that, at times was maybe 25 hours/years, but a lot of that was just it wasn't normally worth the trouble to get it running. On the Kioti, it goes in spurts, can be 4-6 hours in a weekend at times, and then 15 minutes in 2 weeks.

From this past weekend, I think i put all of 0.2 hours in it, Saturday, picking up the back of my trailer to pull tire and plug nail hole; and Sunday, to pull a pine tree that fell into another tree when I cut it. Point being, that 0.2 hours was productive. I dont tend to warm it up for 30 minutes, or generally idle it between jobs.

 

[Bronco82]

B2650 got new in December of 2016. Have 390 hours on it now, so I'm around the 50 hours a year average.
Moving snow, mowing the field, maintaining the driveway, trails and whatever other use I can think of for it.

 

[Fxfymn413]

About 50 hours each for my L4060 HSTC and BX2660. Cut grass with the BX and move firewood, plow snow, help the neighbors with the L.

 

[SwingOak]

I average 250 hrs/year

 

[mx842]

Dang, I was wondering the same thing about the hours people put on their tractors. Thanks for posting this. My Kubota 3301 will be 2 years old in May and it's getting ready to roll over the 300 hr mark. I never would have thought I could find so much stuff to work on when I first bought it. It has saved me many hours of brutal hand work and things that took me days to do now I can do in just hours. It's hardly a day that goes by that I don't use it for something even if it's nothing but going to my mailbox.

 

[tjandrews]

Ever wonder how many hours per year people put on their tractors?
Ours are used mostly for small chores, snow, & landscaping - we don't do anymore mowing or field work.
The newish Kubota's hour meter averages almost 100 hrs/year since 2008. The old one less than 50/year.
It sure seems like more than that.....
rScotty

My grandfather's Case SC has an hour meter on it. Runs off the oil pressure - or would, if it hadn't broken 50-60 years ago...

Our other tractors don't have them, so I can only guess. But it's considerably more than 100 hours each, I'm sure.

 

[postalnut25]

340 hours in 8 years on my Kubota BX2370.

It can go months without being used as most of the projects I got it for are done. However, there is no way I would get rid of it. It is invaluable for snow removal. With the front plow and a rear snow blower, I can handle most storms. Occasionally I'll need the bucket to dig out the drifts, and those are the storms I am sooooooooo glad I have the tractor.

 

[mx842]

Oldie but goody...My 2001 M9 has just a tad over 5500 hours on it and the 02 M9 has 4500 on it but I bought it used so I didn't put all the hours on it.

Seems as though with larger units like we have, hours are not a factor in reselling them, not that I would simply because I have no desire to own a T4-5 compliant tractor.

Your thinking in that department is right on time. I get so dang fired up every 10 or 15 hours of having to quit what I'm doing for sometimes 30 minutes while waiting for this thing to clean out the exhaust. It makes me want to scream; well, it does make me scream every time it happens. This greenie weeny crap, especially on tractors needs to go. This EPA needs to be whittled down a notch or two. They could fire about half of those people, and they would never be missed then maybe some worthwhile things could get done.

 

[bridge4]

I am at 400.9 on my meter and about 5.5 years of ownership. Mostly snow work, some mowing of small fields in the summer and raking the gravel driveways is the rest of it. Figure around 70-80 hours a year more or less.

 

[Bison]

My 3 Cockshutt haying tractors do between 50 to a hundred hrs each on 300 acre hayland.
my 2 Belarus feeding tractors run around 500 hrs a year winter feeding and silage bale gathering/loading and wrapping.Then i have a couple other wheel loaders and a trackloader that i use whenever there is a need for for dirt work brush mowing and mulching and snow plowing, the hrs vary from year to year, i don't keep track.My big JD 8650 gets maybe 40 hrs a year if that. i have a couple other smaller hp tractors that get a bit of use from time to time if need be. I hate pulling pins so most of the tractors stay hooked up to their dedicated piece equipment year round.lol
The hrs on all of them vary from a 2000 to 30.000+ hrs, some are 50 yrs old, the newest is 20 yrs.

 

[HAR]

My B7300, now has 1070 hrs, and I have put just 966 on it since I purchased it used in 2002 with 104hrs. So, average 43hr/yr. I put the most hrs on it the first year (92hr), as with any new toy, it was used for just about anything and everything, but that was also the year that I did a lot of cleaning up in the 2 acres of woods in back of the place. Since then, hrs have varied each year..mostly due to the amount of snow that we may or may not have received. My best guesstimate is that 14-16 hrs each year is mowing my acre of lawn. The rest is again, blowing snow (now only occasionally due to very little snow the past years) and the usual leveling the driveway, moving dirt/gravel/wood, turning my wife's compost pile, and other incidental chores. The loader with a chain are a great way to remove crappy brush that grows along the treeline and other places.
As others have said before, it is not the hours that count. It is the amount of work that it has done and the amount of time and frustration that it has saved you. I only wish that I had purchased it or a similar tractor 20 years sooner. I can hardly think of a time that I wished that I had a bigger tractor. While not big by many standards, it is lot for its size.

 

[Xav922]

my tractors (MF 130 and MF 145) run 60 hours per year all together: private use only in our property, landscaping, gardening, mowing, and lumbering.