22,813 hours on a B21!

jas67 · Apr 16, 2009

Excerpt from a criagslist add for a B21:
Hours 22,813 (THIS IS THE RIGHT HOURS).

Wow! I thought anything over 4000 hours was high!

BruceWard · Apr 17, 2009

Do you have a link to the ad? What is the asking price?

jas67 · Apr 17, 2009

$7,000.

I'll PM you the link.

ibnxe · Apr 18, 2009

If this tractor was run 8 hours a day, five days a week, it would take almost 11 years to rack up that many hours... thats a lot of hours. How many could possibly be left.

MarkV · Apr 18, 2009

ibnxe said:
If this tractor was run 8 hours a day, five days a week, it would take almost 11 years to rack up that many hours... thats a lot of hours. How many could possibly be left.

Interesting. The B21's hit the market in 1996 which was 13 years ago. They also have an hour meter that is based on RPM's not real time. I find the listed hours questionable.

MarkV

medicshawn · Apr 18, 2009

They could have used it as stationary power for something, such as a pump or generator.

Trigger · Apr 18, 2009

Any details on this RPM based hourmeter. I guess I hadnt thought about it before (I also dont wear a watch on the tractor to compare time).

For instance is 1hr at 1k rpm recorded the same as .5hr at 2krpm?
At what RPM would it more or less be "real time"?

MarkV · Apr 18, 2009

Trigger, based on watching my 98 B21 real time is close to PTO rpm. Many of the newer tractors are running electronic meters that start recording in real time as soon as the key is turned, even is the engine is not started.

MarkV

Trigger · Apr 18, 2009

Thanks for the info. It makes sense once I started running the tiller the last couple weeks it seemed to add faster. I run about 2k or less for FEL/BH and 2600 for the tiller.