How many hours you put on your compact each year?

[JWE]

90 hrs per year for me! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Henro]

<font color="blue"> Now Poppa has me wondering if I spend more hours on TBN talking and reading about tractors than using mine. Can you add a hour meter to a computer?
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Mark, I'll answer that question for you! Sure you do!

30 minutes a day would be 180+ hours a year. Hard to read only 30 minutes of TBN each day, isn't it??? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I certainly don't want an hour meter on my computer! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Rick Jay]

Let's see...somewhere around 85 hours since June 2000....I believe it's in the 22 hours per year range.

The only time I really run PTO speed is with the snowblower. Most other times I'm 1/3-1/2 throttle. I don't mow with it and I have a very small property (2/3 acre).

I don't want to know the cost per hour, but I think it is worth every penny. Where I used to dread doing yard work, the tractor, which I sometimes call "The Equalizer", almost makes the jobs fun. I've helped out several neighbors as well.

In the next few years I've got a number of jobs planned for it as we'll be doing some big-time landscaping to the property.

When I bought the tractor, I could justify about 1/3 of the cost on jobs I knew I had to do, 1/3 the cost on things I hadn't planned, and the other 1/3 just 'cause I wanted it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Like I said, I think it was money well spent and would do it again.

~Rick

 

[5030]

RaT:

Our tractors don't really qualify as compacts. They are really cross over units. By the way, I like your signature picture, but what are you pulling?? Is that one of Arnolds weights??

Lets see, I ran around 500 hours last year and I am thinking in the 700 range this year depending on how much more acreage we run. We just contracted 240 acres for round bailing wheat straw. My seat time isn't all pleasure. About two thirds of it is for profit. My 638 is out getting a set of spray heads installed and my square bailer is out too. Getting an overhaul.

 

[rockyridgefarm]

<font color="orange"> I like your signature picture, but what are you pulling?? </font>

Looks like a Hugo that got stuck....

About 150 hours on the famous RR Green Machine.... All with BIG SMILES!!!
Expect that to double, as the operators all keep clamoring for more time....

 

[5030]

Mike:

Your signature picture is cryptic to me (maybe I am getting old). What is it? Looks like a quilt of some sort. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[rockyridgefarm]

<font color="orange"> Your signature picture is cryptic to me (maybe I am getting old). </font>


It's a Deere Tailight!! Don't tell me you can't get close enough to one to see it...! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[_RaT_]

That signature is going to be very recognizable by some. Bird, Harv, Mike you know that signature, I stole it for a little nostalgia. Rat...

 

[JerryG]

Rat,
Might as well use it sense he got a Earthforce.

 

[_RaT_]

I thought it was the back of a lounge chair.