Buying Advice anyone looked at how much per hour it costs to own a cut?

[/pine]

I don't get the reluctance... If you have a tractor in decent shape and unless you break something expensive...every additional hour would reduce the cost/hour...i.e., seat time=better numbers?

 

[Tomtint]

IDK what the cost is on a tractor. But the typical cost of maintence /service on a Skidsteer is 6.00 per hour on a tire machine and 8.00 on a track

 

[brain55]

IDK what the cost is on a tractor. But the typical cost of maintence /service on a Skidsteer is 6.00 per hour on a tire machine and 8.00 on a track

That's pretty close to what I figured out on the Bobcat skid and track machines we had in the fleet of 20+ I worked on. Over 2500 hrs our T300's were closer to $10/hr and we were putting 100hr/month on them. The T180's probably closer to the $8/hr number. That was just maintenance and repair costs, no purchase, depreciation, resale, or fuel costs figured in.

 

[kirkawilson]

Download an enterprise budget spreadsheet at Enterprise Budgets : Extension : Clemson University : South Carolina and the machinery tab shows total cost (fixed + variable) for the tractor by itself of;
TRACTOR 50-60 HP (1) 15.77 $/hr
TRACTOR 70-80 HP (2) 21.59
TRACTOR 95-105 HP (3) 30.62
TRACTOR 115-125 HP (4) 37.16
TRACTOR 135-145 HP (5) 43.38
TRACTOR 155-165 HP (6) 50.15
TRACTOR 175-185 HP (7) 59.38
TRACTOR 195-205 HP (8) 66.07

Implements are extra.

 

[Gary Fowler]

If you have to know that before buying a tractor, you cant afford it, so stick with shovel, axe and wheelbarrow. Obviously the more you use it the less per hour it cost as long as you don't break anything. I use mine minimally so I get yearly oil changes so my service per year is minimal but my hourly cost of ownership is high. I paid $35K for my LS and it has 100 hours on it over a 2 year period, so that is $350 per hour + one oil change and fuel cost ( due another in the spring). Now my used B26 is a bit over a year old with me and has close to 300 hours (240 of them I put on) so that is about $104 + oil, fuel per hour of ownership since I have broken any thing on either on other than a $5, 1/4" NPT fitting on the backhoe hydraulic line. I could for sure have rented a tractor much cheaper, but convenience of ownership is a large part of why I own.
Not a lot of use for the 70 HP now, but just yesterday, I had to break out the big boy to clear some vines and small trees from an old fence row on some new family property that was just purchased, lift some heavy concrete slabs for demo. The previous owner had 18" wide by 10" thick runners for her double wide mobile which I though I could dig out with my B26 TLB but found that it wouldn't lift even one end. Sometimes you need extra large capacity for small jobs.

 

[fatnfur]

O.P. here. I guess this was too ambitious of a question. Maybe it would be better to ask what the first 2000 hours of your tractors life cost, minus what it might sell for used?? Of course guesstimates were all I was curious about.

 

[ovrszd]

O.P. here. I guess this was too ambitious of a question. Maybe it would be better to ask what the first 2000 hours of your tractors life cost, minus what it might sell for used?? Of course guesstimates were all I was curious about.

It's a great question!!! Let it simmer overnight and the activity will pick up. Very interesting to see how it's perceived by each poster. I don't think any posters, so far, have tried to get an accurate number for you. Would take awhile in the recliner with stubby pencil and calculator to get much accuracy. A LOT of variables.

One that hasn't been mentioned yet. How far back are you going?? Is this your first tractor?? If not do you count the initial cost of the first, and every trade since?? Otherwise you wouldn't know what your tractor cost. Hmmmmm......

 

[/pine]

It's a great question!!! Let it simmer overnight and the activity will pick up. Very interesting to see how it's perceived by each poster. I don't think any posters, so far, have tried to get an accurate number for you. Would take awhile in the recliner with stubby pencil and calculator to get much accuracy. A LOT of variables.

One that hasn't been mentioned yet. How far back are you going?? Is this your first tractor?? If not do you count the initial cost of the first, and every trade since?? Otherwise you wouldn't know what your tractor cost. Hmmmmm......

This thread has the potential to grow some legs but you never know...

 

[nybirdman]

I don't really care;I have the machine it's paid for,I can do what "I" need to do when it needs to be done.
If you have to worry about what the cost per hr.is ;you probably can't afford it or don't really need one.

 

[Stick895]

The surest way to ruin something is to determine what it's costing you. It's like a truck; if mpg is important to you, don't get a truck. Once you get it, figure out if the gas gauge is relatively accurate and be done with the subject.