Buying Advice New Tractor Delivery Hour Meter

[xtruckerbob]

Bird is right on motorhomes our motorhome had 800 miles new on the dealers lot. Also when we bought 2 new Freightliners one had almost 2000 miles on it and the other was piggybacked and had less than 2 miles on it. No discount for miles. Still Ii think fewer is better.

 

[lonegunman]

Mine had 1.3 hours on it. New is "new" in my opinion. If it has more than 35 hours, it should have the 50hr service done before you take it home or come with a free service at 50 hours.

 

[murphy1244]

Well, What happened?

 

[OldMcDonald]

Murph, Just what I was thinking. I know people often have very good reasons why they do not come back (other forums as well as this) but I guess you are a bit like me and wonder if it is worth the effort to give your experience to those who ask when you never find out what the end result is. But, we continue to do it, because sometimes it is appreciated, and at least we know we did the right thing.

 

[94BULLITT]

My great uncle bought a "new" mower that had 150-175 hours on it. Some kid supposedly turned the key on when it was on the show room floor and nobody knew it

 

[gunmonkeyintl]

My great uncle bought a "new" mower that had 150-175 hours on it. Some kid supposedly turned the key on when it was on the show room floor and nobody knew it

I believe that.
My Cub Cadet's hour meter runs whenever the key is in it. I've had it for 5 years and have about 100 hours on it right now. If I put the key in it tonight and didn't remove it until next Thursday, it would have around 270 hours on it.

Fortunately, it would be really easy to tell if a lawnmower had 150 real hours on it. After mowing 150 hours, the underside of the deck would have no paint left, it would be on its 2nd or 3rd set of blades, and its 6th or 7th oil change (meaning dusty oil drips around the engine/frame). I'd say they were probably telling your uncle the truth.

 

[Gary Fowler]

My great uncle bought a "new" mower that had 150-175 hours on it. Some kid supposedly turned the key on when it was on the show room floor and nobody knew it

I could believe that with a mower as they mostly have a cheap hour meter that runs whenever the ignition is on, but tractors are tied to the motor RPM and even with the ignition on, they don't run up any hours unless the engine is turning and then they are calibrated to PTO engine speed so a tractor with PTO speed of 2500 RPM when running at 1250 RPM will take 2 hours to clock 1 hour on the meter.
When I was taking my private pilot license, the airplane owner used the Hobbs meter for billing and it ran for 5 minutes each time you turned on the key. The hour meter clocking the RPM might only show 45 minutes or less for an hour on the Hobbs meter after adding in the pre-flight inspection, taxi at idle and shutdown with the Hobbs continuing to run for 5 more minutes.

I am still waiting to hear from the OP on actual hours on the tractor when it arrived.

 

[gunmonkeyintl]

... they are calibrated to PTO engine speed so a tractor with PTO speed of 2500 RPM when running at 1250 RPM will take 2 hours to clock 1 hour on the meter.

That's a cool piece of info that I did not know. I thought that my hour meter seemed to run a little "slow". Thank you.

 

[Bird]

This topic has come up many times. And different machines have different kinds of "hour" meters. My 1995 B7100 had the electric one that ran anytime the key was on, so the key could have been left on and hours run up without the tractor running, or being moved. On the other hand, as with some other diesel machines, you could turn the key off while the engine was running and work all day without registering any time on the hour meter, if you were so inclined (I was not). The B7100 had a manual fuel shut-off to kill the engine; the key didn't do it. But then the 1999 B2700 had the hour meter based on RPM so it only registered an hour at PTO RPM and turning off the key killed the engine; solenoid fuel shut-off.

 

[Bluegill2]

Well, What happened?

We may never know?