Posted by RodInNS on December 13, 2009 at 09:48:21 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: tractor hours posted by a.rothermel on December 12, 2009 at 15:59:40:
I've got tractors here with 7-8000 hours. I know of some more with over 10K hours and no major work. I know of forestry gear with 30K plus but they've been rebuilt several times over. Wheels loaders with 50-100K hours. See that stuff advertized from time to time. I think Cat actually did a story here in their rag mabey a year ago about a lumber mill with a couple 966C's I think... I think one had just rolled the 100K. Dunno how many rebuilds, but several.
The dairy used to run trucks with Cat 3306's as well. Hour meters in them were up over 40K upon retirement. 3-4 in-frames tho.
I suspect the tractor in question was run on a TMR mixer. Run steady all day, every day. Probably no real big loads or hard work. Probably seen some major rebuilds by now as well. Probably also best left where it's at too. Anything on a dairy farm that's needed every day... has a tendency to not see a whole lot of maintenance until something gives up unless they were fortunate enough to have multiple units available as backup. Just how it is.... all too often.
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