Advice on smallerish tractor for the woods

The one in Athens looks pretty good.


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My BX2360 has over 400hours, maybe 430-440 and the L4240 has 370ish. The L4240 should have more hours but I have been too busy to use it. Both were purchased in July 2011.

I see guys on the tractor forum get 25-30 hours on a tractor and trade it.

 

at 25 hours it hasn't even had its first oil change, and literally is still new, not remotely close to broke in. what is it 50 or 100 or 200 or 500 for the firSt big service like new hydro etc

 

Wish my old girls had hour meters and tag a long daily use logs oh the stories they could Probly tell

 

My neighbor has 4 New Hollands. One is not a year old, the second is about 2, the 3rd is about 3 and 4th is maybe 10 or 12 years old(TL90 with the old front end). His tractors sit all the time except for hay season. He has four tractors so he does not have to change out hay making equipment too often.

 

You can add an hourmeter.

Waterproof Tachometer Hour Meter RPM STIHL Husqvarna, Poulan CHAIN SAW - Service

 

can't get all those decades of use back

 

You might be surprised. They may not have been used much. I have seen tractors from the 50's with 1400hrs.

 

Some of those old tachs were calculated on rpms. I have forgotten what that's called at the moment.

 

I think all of them were. The hour meter said, "hours at 540."

 

That's the thing, we will never know??

 

That's how my yannie is. it's an hour at I think 2400rpms so if I put along bushhogging at like 1800rpm in short grass I will mow for like an hour and a half for every hour on the meter. Sometimes if I am doing even less rpm, closer to like 1500 it's almost 2 hours seat time for an hour. Idling that thing will go forever before an hour goes through, so that's also how I only get 20 to 25 hours a year.

 

concretegrazer The old Fords had a proof meter. Is that what you are thinking about?

 

That's it.

 

Was that exclusive to Ford?

 

I thought I had heard a lot of the new ones were like that?
Gary

 

I was talking about the hour meter being called a proof meter.

Most current tractors(atleast CUTs) are true hours. Some as soon as turn the key on the hourmeter runs.



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Some are with the key & some are with the engine running. Gotta watch that if you're leaving the key on for a radio.

 

I know the BX's are key on.

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