tractor vs truck

[fish_wisperer]

i was thinking about tractor life last night, what i could expect being i dont use it to make a living.
if 1hr=100mi then 100hrs=10,000mi so 1000 hrs=100,000miles. i can expect 200,000 miles out of my f150 so i can easly expect 2000hrs out of my tractor without problems. it takes 5 yrs to get 100,000mi on truck so i should get 10 years out of my tractor if i protect it from weather.

 

[Egon]

My Kubota B7100 has over 2300 hours on it and should be good for a whole lot more. Nothing done to it engine wise other than change oil.

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Gatorboy]

I've got 8000 hours on my tractor -- to get 800,000 miles out of my truck would be some feat!

 

[fish_wisperer]

this is true but i was cutting the tractors alot of slack in the comparison because we dont drive 100mph, a better average would be 50 mph so you could expect 4000 trouble free hours if you compare it to a descent truck. i have herd a professional tractor guy say he expects 7500 hrs without any major problems. if you have 8000 with no major problems that sounds exceptional. you might start thinking about trading up though.

 

[Dargo]

That is really going to depend on your particular brand of truck and tractor. For example, my neighbor bought a new 6.5 liter Chevy diesel pickup and a new 5.9 liter Dodge diesel pickup in 1994. The Dodge has nearly 700k on it and has never had a wrench on the engine. The 6.5 Chevy only has about 170k on it and it has had a huge list of things done to it. For example, both heads have broken, the Standyne (sp?) pump has gone out twice, and it has had several other fairly serious issues. He has performed the same maintenance on each. This same scenario has been played out thousands of times.

Tractors will be the same way. To see over 10k hours on some brands is perfectly normal. With other brands, you will begin having serious issues around 2500 hours or so. Not all trucks, nor all tractors, are built the same and will, therefore, certainly not have the same life expectancy.

 

[Egon]

Gatorboy:

I surely hope to get about 10,000 hours on mine.

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[hobbyfarm]

I have a neighbor with a John Deere 4430 with over 14,000 hours. Never done anything to it other than routine maintenance. This tractor is the farm's main prime mover so it gets the plowing, deep disking and subsoiling chores. Doesn't get babied at all. He purchased it new.

 

[fish_wisperer]

i like hearing these things lasting like that. the reason i started thinking about it was seeing used tractors for sale and i had no idea what the high end of hours was so i was comparing it to trucks for a general idea even though i know most tractors are built better i think. i to have had nothing but trouble with the two chevy trucks i have owned. bought my wife one last year, had to go rescue her last night for the second time. i think ill be trading it soon.

 

[fish_wisperer]

ive seen alot of tractors for sale with 400 to 1000 hrs for sale, sounds like their almost as good as new.

 

[wushaw]

Fish whisper, I don't think you hour/mileage is real close cause the 03 3500 I just sold had 60,000 miles and it had @ 2300hrs on the computer hr meter.
I'm sure there are other members here with an 03 or newer GM truck that could check their hr/mileage for some comparisons.

 

[Boomerang1]

The truck I drive has 800,000K and is 5 years old. Has not been overhauled yet. M11 Cummins 400 hp.@ 2100rpm. and 1450 lb-ft torque @ 1300 rpm. It has 20,000 hours and consumes 1/10 of its crankcase oil volume every 200 hours. That equals 1/gal. per 8000K which is normal oil consumption for this engine.

 

[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue">( The truck I drive has 800,000K and is 5 years old. ) </font>

I bet it's not a pickup truck. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Egon]

A few months back I saw a P/U with 738,000 Kilometers on it and still looking good.

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I've got an old tractor than my father bought new in 1957. The tach/hour meter quit at 9444 hours......IN 1988. I'd venture a guess that it has 15,000 hours on it now. And the engine has never seen major work, tranny is fine, hydraulics are slow, but still working.

I have a 1974 Ford 3000 with over 8000 hours on the clock, and still plugging along just fine.

My Massey 150 and Deere 2440 have 4500 and 2400 hours respectively, and haven't seen much of any trouble between the two.

With good care, 10,000 hours isn't out of the question.

My tractors are 35 years, 31 years, and 27 years old. The "newest one" (27 years old) is like new. I'm looking for something a bit bigger, and will likely get one a bit newer, but condition, not age, will decide what I buy. Age of a tractor is almost irrelevent.

My son has a '94 Dodge pick-up, Cummins diesel, with over 500,000 miles. It looks mighty sad. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Still running, but beat, broke, and battered.

Under ordinary conditions, todays trucks (pick-ups) are good for 100,000 to 125,000 before they start to fall apart. Some do it earlier than that.

 

[Charlie_in_TX]

fishy, has has been said, by you and others, your estimate is off. My '03 GMC was a hiway truck. It had a 36 mph average. My wifes YukonXL is used for suburban driving. Hers showed 26 the last I checked.

A truck with 2000hrs on it will have 60 - 70k miles normally. That will put 200k miles at 6000hrs.

 

[fish_wisperer]

your right, but this post has given me a better idea for used tractors. if i ever buy used and it has 4000 hrs or better it better have a real good price even if its pretty.

 

[JrsL5030]

i have a 2005 F250 6.0 and have 47300 miles with 867hours on it. but i just got my tractor 2 days ago i only have 2.3 hours on it i hope it last pass 10000

 

[Sabooo]

Unfortunately, there's no way to predict the lifespan of a used tractor just based on the hours. Unless you know exactly how the unit was used, how it was treated during that use, and the maintenance history since new, there are just too many variables left when you only know the hours.

In my continued shopping for a compact tractor, I've seen units with 1500 hours and up that look like they just came out of a showroom, and stuff with 800 hours that look like it was kept in a swamp, rolled down a mountain, and the previous owner changed his harley oil on top of the engine.

My TO30 has no hour meter on it, but I can tell you that its been in continuous service since 1951, with the most major maintenance being new valves 2 years ago (darn unleaded gas. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )