Got a 40 yr old new tractor. Whats your high houred machine?

Mitch D · Jan 10, 2010

The 3020 just rolled over 10,000 hours today so its back to 0001 again. Highest one we have but im sure its nothing compared to some of the ol tractors some of you might have.
So how high is ur old workhorse and how it earned it livin??
The 3020 has been on our dairy farm for a lot of its life.

Iowa Farmer · Jan 10, 2010

My 1966 IH 806 is getting ready to turn 11,000 hours pretty quick. It is the highest houred on the ones that have a tach. For the original owner, it fed cattle, cut silage, planted, cultivated, and plowed in the fall. Today, it runs the TMR wagon, grinds feed, runs the manure spreader, and mows some as well.

The highest houred tractor we have is my Grandpa's first tractor, a 1950 Allis-Chalmers WD. It did EVERYTHING for many years for him. He also did a large amount of custom work with it. Still a 6V, it very rarely fails to start when needed. Still spray fencerows, run augers, spread manure, etc. with it today.

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Tom from Ontario · Jan 10, 2010

Figure we've got 15,000 on a 1959 d-17 gasser. One sleeve and pistton job and a tubful of front wheel bearings. Has 417 loader. Loaded all our manure from 700 hogs, picked up hay and straw with New Holland 1012, seeded, etc, etc. It'll be the last tractor I'll sell.

Pat-CT · Jan 10, 2010

Highist one is my JD 60 at about 3850

M w J · Jan 10, 2010

1970 JD 4000 little over 14000 hours went from a main tractor to mainly an auger tractor and also around the yard never had a loader on it.

fixerupper · Jan 10, 2010

1086 just turned 15000. Maybe half of that is hard field work, the rest is manure hauling, wagon pulling, feed grinding, etc. It has an electric tach so idle time adds up too.

630 Deere has estimated 15000+. First 4000 was field work, then 40 years of loader work with some cultivating. I have heard of southern tractors with double that many hours. Jim

vj · Jan 10, 2010

I still have the IH 656D gear drive my dad bought new in 1967. On the 3rd tach but added together they total 30,876 hours. We farmed 960 acres with it as our big tractor including turning a PTO combine for the 1st 8 years. Then added a used 806 so it saw lighter loads then. Since 1980 about all it's done was cutting and raking hay, hauling manure, moving bales, spraying, etc. Dad passed away in 2006 and gave it to me a week before he passed. The tractor was extremely worn when I got it but had never had the engine opened up, only injectors and pump had been worked on up until then. Had several clutches, a couple of pinion bearings, axle bearings, pto clutches, and 2 TA replacements over the years. I went completely through the engine with new everything. The TA is starting to slip again and I"ve got some noise in the rear end but I'll own this one till I die. Shedded all it's life and still has original paint and sheet metal looks great. Don't have a son so maybe a nephew will be deserving some day.

olliekid · Jan 10, 2010

the 3020 i drive at work has about 9800 hours. The farmer bought it with about 1000 and used it for haying and cultivating planting etc. Now he just uses it to run augers now that he has the big 4455's and newer JD's

MSD · Jan 10, 2010

The tach on my 39 H JD is missing so I'm not sure of how many hours it has but it is 71 years old.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Jan 10, 2010

No hour meter on it, but I have my father's 41 H he farmed with for 45+ years. In that time it has had engine rebuilt 4 times that I know of, maybe more, the U drawbar has been built up twice and the hole in the end of the swinging drawbar has been built up and redrilled 3 times. That all takes a bunch of use.

Alex.C · Jan 10, 2010

My 1952 Minneapolis Moline. Seen more work than I might. It has no hour gage so I have to I imagine the amount of hours it has, LOTS!!! Its nearly 60.
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kyhayman · Jan 10, 2010

One of my 7600 Fords is pearched on 14,434 when the meter quit two years ago. Based on the other two its close to 15,000 now. It does all my hay raking and teddering and pulls the square baler. Only thing I know its had done was a clutch and PS pump. It may leave this year though now that I've gotten my dads 3 tractors its the highest hour oldest machine in the bunch.

iowatom · Jan 11, 2010

Our John Deere 4430 has 11,000 hrs and still counting. We went through the ac system a couple years ago, thats been about it.

Pair-a-dice farm · Jan 11, 2010

The tach on my 826 IH quit with over 9000 hours, that was 20 years ago. I'm guessing that it has at least 15000 hours on it. The first 15 years it was our primary tractor for plowing, planting, and haying. After we quit row crop it was used for hay and grinding feed. I've pretty much retired it now and just use it for feeding hay and hauling firewood.

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