NCL4701
Well-known member
Equipment
L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
When I first got mine a couple years ago my Dad, who lives next door, said, “It will have about 4 hours on it by this time next year.” Well by that time the next year it had about 180 hours on it. Over the next year about 90 more hours. It’s been a little over two years and it’s about 296 hours now as best I recall.
Kind of like Roadworthy implied, when we got it, we had a backlog of deferred maintenance and put quite a few hours on it pretty quickly.
It’s now accruing hours less quickly as the backlog is worked down. And quite often now, when we get it out it’s for something such as clearing deadfall off the trails, dressing the creek crossings after a flood, unloading something heavy off a truck, and other things where it’s invaluable but doesn’t put a ton of hours on it. Most of the hours come from mowing and chipping. We have 70 acres, mostly wooded but with areas that require brush hogging a few times a year and numerous trails that require maintenance. There’s pretty much always something we could be doing with it, but flat needing to do something with it is probably every other weekend on average. Once in a while we’ll haul it to church or a friends place for some specific job.
We have a Kawasaki Mule so it doesn’t get used for carryall or people moving chores. I’m not using it to make a living or generate income. There are some jobs I could have gotten by with the 9N and H but it was to the point without the L I simply couldn’t maintain the property in a reasonable condition with just me, my wife, my elderly father, and his worn out antique equipment.
I kind of get the impression many of the folks that show up here routinely aren’t making a living with these machines.
Kind of like Roadworthy implied, when we got it, we had a backlog of deferred maintenance and put quite a few hours on it pretty quickly.
It’s now accruing hours less quickly as the backlog is worked down. And quite often now, when we get it out it’s for something such as clearing deadfall off the trails, dressing the creek crossings after a flood, unloading something heavy off a truck, and other things where it’s invaluable but doesn’t put a ton of hours on it. Most of the hours come from mowing and chipping. We have 70 acres, mostly wooded but with areas that require brush hogging a few times a year and numerous trails that require maintenance. There’s pretty much always something we could be doing with it, but flat needing to do something with it is probably every other weekend on average. Once in a while we’ll haul it to church or a friends place for some specific job.
We have a Kawasaki Mule so it doesn’t get used for carryall or people moving chores. I’m not using it to make a living or generate income. There are some jobs I could have gotten by with the 9N and H but it was to the point without the L I simply couldn’t maintain the property in a reasonable condition with just me, my wife, my elderly father, and his worn out antique equipment.
I kind of get the impression many of the folks that show up here routinely aren’t making a living with these machines.
