Highest Hour tractor?

[Charlie175]

What's the highest hour tractor you have run across?

I've seen a few IH 806's in the 9,000 hour range, plus a few Ford's (8000/8600).

[Farmwithjunk]

I know of a 1966 John Deere 4020 PowerShift with over 16,000 one-owner hours. It spent the first 9 years of it's life as the #1 tractor on a large dairy farm. In 1975 they added a 4430. The 4020 never had to do primary tillage work again, but was used to pull a planter, cultivate, cut, rake, and bale hay, run a silage blower, and in general, never resting. By the late 80's, a 4850 was added to the fleet. The 4430 took on a lot of the 4020's heavier chores. The 4020 got a loader installed and spent it's years since as a barnyard tractor, and with a hay grapple, picking up baled hay and straw. It looks the part of a 16,000 hour farm tractor. The engine was overhauled somewhere around 10,000 hours. The PowerShift tranny, other than oil changes, has never been touched.

Also, I have my fathers 1956 Ferguson F-40. It has logged over 15,000 hours before the hour meter quit. That was in (approx) 1990.

[art]

Steiger- 32,500 a couple of years ago. I haven't been back to the farm since but should be over 33,000 by now.
There are others that are high in the twenties but they don't have a log book to document the exact hours of use.

[gamble77]

Some of the larger farms can put 25,000hrs on a tractor in no time it seems...some wheel loaders I have seen with incredible hours on them...its all about taking care of what you are using!

[Charlie175]

wow, that is a lot of seat time!