tractor vs truck

[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 )