How Many Hours Do You Spend on Your Tractor(s)?

chim · Sep 9, 2024

Two here. Kubota with cab and Ford open station. Majority of hours spent mowing with snow removal sometimes:

Kubota L4240HSTC - 528 hours since buying it used at the beginning of 2019, so ~ 100hours per year.

Ford 1210 HST - around 30 hours per year.

Usage has changed over the years:
*Had 2-1/4 acres when we built.
*Mowed MIL's 4-5 acres in addition to home for several years. Son helped (kept Ford there and drove B7500 back and forth).
*MIL sold farm and we added a piece to our original lot, now 3-1/2 acres
*Started plowing snow at church in 2002 (Minor hours)

careyo63 · Sep 9, 2024

Yanmar is my FM. 65-75 Tach. Hrs. Yr.. Only owned the Ford a couple mostly with the FEL. and it's been Around 25 Tach. Hrs. a Yr..

bandit67 · Sep 16, 2024

My 2008 Kubota B3030 open station had 400 hours on it when I traded it in after 4 years. I went with basically the same machine, a B3000 cab, for snow removal during big, multi-day Rocky Mountain snow storms that soaked me thru ALL my clothes the first 4 years on the open station.

Now I'm in the southeast where I use the AC almost year round, but in 12 years, am only just getting to the 400 hour mark. So I went from 100 hrs/yr down to 34 hrs/yr

Prior to moving, I almost sold the machine, thinking I really wouldn't need it on my new 2 acre lot, and although I don't use it a ton these days, I do use it, and have realized how much I appreciate hydraulics as I get older, so I've continued to add implements and customization to it, and figure I will keep it forever.

Sonny580 · Sep 16, 2024

I about live on all of mine and no cabs on any of them and do NOT want one!!!!!!

scott_vt · Sep 16, 2024

Good Afternoon Rockinbbar,

rockinbbar said:
So, how many hours do you put on your tractor?

I have an old 1986 MF1040 diesel that I bought in 2004. So I have had it about 20 years and I believe I put about 50 hours per year on it. The hour meter broke a few years ago at 1700 hrs, so im guesiing I have a little over 2000 hours total. Open station, used mostly for mowing the property and DW maintenance, also used for carrying wood rounds to the barn for splitting etc. I think about a newer tractor occasionally but really dont want anything with a lot of electronics and devices I really dont need !

Gas Farmalls not much !