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Woodham, Ontario | I know what I said was a bit harsh, but when going against popular opinion that it often seems that way.
We have 3 tractors, all of them do on average 1000 hours per year. Can we aford to get a 4th? Yes. Does it make sense? No It will be parked most of the year. If you have a fleet of 30 year old tractors with 5000 hours on them, then maybe you bought too many tractors 30 years ago! Sure they are paid for now, but maybe the money could have been spent a lot better back then.
We use our tractors quite a bit for northern standards, running older tractors means we soon have really high houred tractors. Used tractor prices around here for less than 4000 hour tractors are way too high compared to new because most people think new is too expensive. We do the math every time and buying new and running it to 10,000 hours in 6-10 years is the cheapest for us. | |
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new versus old tractors?
