How many tractor hours per year?

[lman]

What I’m talking about is engine hours on your vehicle and the odometer reading. I think most people would find they are below 40 mph over the life of a vehicle.

My tractor tops out at 14 MPH!!!

 

[ctgoldwing]

. . . Time is all that matters, if people in vehicles cared more (or if it mattered more) they would track running hours not mileage for maintenance.

Actually our 2014 Jeep diesel takes it one step further (iirc other mfgrs do also). There is a 'countdown' in % of oil life left. If you are doing highway driving it pushes close to 9000 mi between changes. otoh if my wife is just doing short runs in town it can bring the miles down to 5-6000. We never towed with it but I'm pretty sure that would really lower the miles between changes.

 

[East30]

I'm at 80 hours total for the two years owning my B2650. I would say year two doubled the usage of year 1, I expect to double usage again next year. Year one was a test of creating and managing a food plot. I mean, my one acre weed patch. Learned a lot. Year two: Expanded the plot. Much better results. Bought a rotary cutter. Broke ground on three more plots end of summer, prepping for next year. Plan to purchase forks next year. Maybe a grapple the year after. All these things will increase my annual usage over time. I have an RTV-x1100 that I use much more, winter use is with a blade on it for plowing. I use my tractor for realistically 5 months of the year, and it sits two hours away from where I live, and I visit it only on weekends. I did get the real beauty of my tractor in October, prepping for a new home build next year. Rocked 200 feet of shoreline with 32 tons of rock. That was fun.

 

[Porchfan]

I’ve had my B2650 since 2014. I have approx 1300 hours on it now. That’s about 216 hrs per year. The first year or two was a lot more than it
Is today. I was building a 1000 ft road and a second pole barn back then and was on it quite a bit. Today it’s less time on the B2650 and more on the Bx2380 which I use basically to just cut grass.