Approx projected hours on a compact tractor (24hp)

[BigEddy]

Depends on what your lease agreement is. If it is a monthly lease, and you have to have a limit, I'd go with 2000hrs/ year as a limit. That lets you use it full-time without penalty and basically negates the clause in the first place.

But you might be able to use this requirement to your advantage, and lease it on a per hour basis only. In other words - you pay for the hours used, not a per month fee.

Depending on your application that may be favourable. I know my neighbour had a need for an additional tractor and he arranged with the local dealer to lease one of their used units for 9 mos on an hours-used basis. It was perfect for him. He had it on his farm whenever he needed it, but only paid for actual usage. Of course he used his other tractor for most of the work, and the rental when he had extra work (or really dirty work) to do.

In terms of hours per year, I accumulate about 100 hours a year on my lawn tractor cutting 3 acres a week when the grass is growing. I accumulate about the same on my 855 doing landscaping, maple syrup, snow removal and odd jobs. I have a 300' drive and do one neighbour's as well each time -and have been known to be neighbourly when the snow really flies and do several drives on my road.

Average hours are hard to pin down. Most users on this board probably average a couple hundred hours a year but I'd be interested in what that range looks like.

In terms of residual value, once these machines hit 1000 hours, their value seems to stay pretty flat as long as they are maintained properly.

 

[Ray2210]

We purchased a 2210 last fall and with the winter we had here last year I had 50 hours on it just in snow removal. Through out the spring and summer I have accumulated another 50 hours in lawn mowing, grading the drive, rototilling gardens and around trees and moving wood mulch around trees. We live on 7 acres and I cut 3 or 4 of those including ditches. The main yard is less than an acre and is cut weekly the rest is every two or three weeks. From what you are going to do I'd say you will easily end up over a hundred a year. Out of curiosity where in Canada are you?

 

[fishman]

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I think you meant 200 hours, didn't you BigEddy? At least that's what the rest of your post seems to indicate.

I might even get tired of tractoring if I ran one 2000 hours per year. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[dmccarty]

Gord/Novo,

I have a JD4700. I don't think it matters what tractor you have and the number of hours you put on the system. More on how much work you have to do.

I had a lot of work todo my first two years of owning the tractor. I think I put 200 hours on it each year. Now after five years I'm just shy of 600 hours. For me to get that many hours I was working EVERY Saturday. As many as 12 hours if I had the light. I also used vacation days and worked some Sundays. It was hard to put 200 hours on the tractor a year if you have a full time OTHER job.

From conversations I have seen on TBN. It seems like most people might put 100 hours a year on a tractor BUT it really depends on the person and what they have to do.

Later,
Dan