Average hours on tractor / year

crown · Apr 9, 2002

My primary use is mowing and bush hogging some snow removal around 75 hours per year. Not near enough/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

banjobj · Apr 9, 2002

It is amazing the different amount of hours that people put on their tractors. I've had mine 14 months and have 66 hours on it. I also believe that with proper maintanence 3 to 5 thousand hours should be easily reached.

IndianaPaul · Apr 10, 2002

Just over 13 months and about 168 hours. Mostly spread over bushog, finishmower, tiller & FEL.

IndianaPaul

Anonymous Poster · Apr 10, 2002

When I started looking for a tractor, I stopped by my local NH dealer and asked about the TC18. I found he was wanting about $7,000 just for the tractor. It was a little smaller than what I wanted so I asked about the TC25. I think they were asking $11,000 for it. Wouldn't budge on the price. I decided right away that used was the way for me to go. I wound up with a 98 model 1725 (they tell me this is the same as a TC29) with 260 hrs on it. This thing is practicaly new. It is all gear and 2wd. I gave $6,250 for just the tractor. I couldn't believe it. I paid less than what they wanted for the TC18!

I have had it for about 8 months now and love it!

Soundguy · Apr 11, 2002

Almost the same situation as me.
I had been looking for something a little bigger than my yanmar 1700 ( 17-22 hp ) and was amazed at the prices of new tractors.... I had even looked at the jinma tractors that northern hydraulics was selling. I went to NH, and saw the tc18's.. but again.. just wasn't big enough.. though they were on special that month... you could get the MMM for like 700 or something extra... still. On the side of the lot was 1920 740 hours on it, but the motor had just been re-built at that dealership.. and had only a few hours on the motor... $9500..
It is about a tc33... which was like 15k$... it was a 1997 model, looked good.. had 4wd... I got a canopy for another 280.. and had it delivered... has run great!

Chris

""When I started looking for a tractor, I stopped by my local NH dealer and asked about the TC18. I found he was wanting about $7,000 just for the tractor. It was a little smaller than what I wanted so I asked about the TC25. I think they were asking $11,000 for it. Wouldn't budge on the price. I decided right away that used was the way for me to go. I wound up with a 98 model 1725 (they tell me this is the same as a TC29) with 260 hrs on it. This thing is practicaly new. It is all gear and 2wd. I gave $6,250 for just the tractor. I couldn't believe it. I paid less than what they wanted for the TC18!
I have had it for about 8 months now and love it! ""

Mosey · Apr 11, 2002

I've had mine 2 years. 1st year, 80 hours. 2nd year 100 hours. This year I expect to increase by about the same percentage because I just bought some more implements. About 50 hours a year are spent mowing the yard.

Corm · Apr 12, 2002

I have averaged slightly more than 100 hours per year in the 3 years I've owned mine. I don't do any finish mowing with it, and only about 5 hours per year field mowing.

Corm