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Southeast Colorado | Obviously a higher dollar tractor devalues faster than a lower dollar one.
You can carry that equation clear down to zero when you're running a $20k 10,000+ hour machine. I've still got a jd 4840 that has something like 16k hours on it. I don't use it heavily.........but it runs augers, the grain vac, fills sprinkler tracks, things like that. If it doesn't fall in two...........I think it's worth the same at the end of the year than it was when I started the year.
Truth to be known.........most every tractor on my farm is close to the same. As long as you can keep them reliable (which can be a struggle) I've always figured that's part of the way poor me can compete with the more entrenched farms around me. I do have two bigger workhouse tractors that are pretty high houred. I can get by with one........but mainly have a 2nd for back up. That came into play planting wheat two crops ago when the main tractor laid down.
We probably put a combined 1500 hours/year on all tractors and the sprayer. | |
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