Tractor Life Expectancy?

[rk246]

My Kubota only lasts 1200 hours, the dealer is getting it back, through his front door....

 

[IslandTractor]

Did you mean to say: "If" my Kubota.....

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[Soundguy]

Gosh.. I love 'experts' that pull non-facts out of thin air.

I consider 1200 hours, on an otherwise non-abused machine.. just good and broke in. and anything 700 hours or less.. plain out low hours.

I see ag tractor in use all the time with 4000+ hours on them. My 1952 8n came with a damaged proof meter that stopped inthe 5xxx hour range...year? decades? ago...

Soundguy

 

[rk246]

Yeah, IF, I don't see it happening though, not with all the people that are running them so hard and putting 1000's of hours on... My FIL has a couple thousand hours on his New holland, does absolutely no maintenance ( I have thought about calling the tractor services division and turning him in for abuse) and his keeps running. He did have to put a new fuel filter in the other day....

 

[IslandTractor]

Despite the lavish attention that folks on this forum pay to their tractors (If you want to see the real diehards, check out the fuel and oil section /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif), I suspect these machines will last almost as long with minimal maintenance as with ideal maintenance. So long as you don't run the oil sump dry and put back the pieces that drop off occasionally, I think tractors are likely to go many thousands of hours before some irrepairable problem arises. Look at how may gas lawn mower engines continue to run for years and years despite virutally no maintenance. Tractor diesels should be able to do even better. I know some will holler and scream at this notion but so long as you keep oil in the sump and don't feed it bad fuel, there is little that is likely to go wrong. I'm not advocating abuse, just pointing out that tractors are fairly tolerant of general neglect.

 

[CarlGlas]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Twelve THOUSAND hours isn't even a whole lot....there are airplanes with 100,000 hours on them and I would consider a tractor to be more solidly built than an airplane. )</font>


Well, if there were a federal agency that mandated the maintenance, and performed inspections on tractors like they do airplanes, they would probably get more hours too. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

MF has a 1500 hour warranty on their sub-compact engines and a 3000 hour warranty on the larger tractor engines, so I guess they at least expect them to last that long.

However, the least expensive and most important maintenance we can do on any engine is to change the fluids and filters on a regular basis or sooner if needed.

 

[brewdog]

I've had two different dealers tell me that if a tractor is maintained right, 10,000 hours isn't unrealistic at all for a diesel engine. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

 

[NHeuro]

A friend of me is using a LANDINI MISTRAL, he has 2000 h now and without any problems, the engine is like new

 

[Ledgemere Farm]

1200 hours? Maybe 12 THOUSAND. otherwise, we would have had to take almost all our machines down back and shoot them by now.

 

[CT_Tree_Guy]

<font color="blue">I suspect these machines will last almost as long with minimal maintenance as with ideal maintenance </font>

I suspect they won't.

<font color="blue"> tractors are fairly tolerant of general neglect. </font>

You can't fool physics and chemistry.