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<blockquote data-quote="Land-Tech" data-source="post: 23764" data-attributes="member: 1679"><p>Having two different machines with both around five thousand , Tazza is probably right about the usable life of the engines. The yanmar in the mustang takes quite a few cranks to fire on a warm day when you should not have to use any cold start. The Duetz is a lot harder starting when cold but will always start on a normal day. The Mustang lower pins are thrashed but I worked this machine very hard. The Gehl is still pretty tight But with that many hrs I feel like something can go at anytime. That last break down caused about two weeks of headache and machine rental.It's mainly a business decision to get a fresher one. 5000 hr seems to be the time for me. I end up putting a little less than 1000 hr per year. Most people would use a skid a lot less than that so the part time or home/ farm could look forward to a lot of years of service, even with a high hr machine.Scott</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Land-Tech, post: 23764, member: 1679"] Having two different machines with both around five thousand , Tazza is probably right about the usable life of the engines. The yanmar in the mustang takes quite a few cranks to fire on a warm day when you should not have to use any cold start. The Duetz is a lot harder starting when cold but will always start on a normal day. The Mustang lower pins are thrashed but I worked this machine very hard. The Gehl is still pretty tight But with that many hrs I feel like something can go at anytime. That last break down caused about two weeks of headache and machine rental.It's mainly a business decision to get a fresher one. 5000 hr seems to be the time for me. I end up putting a little less than 1000 hr per year. Most people would use a skid a lot less than that so the part time or home/ farm could look forward to a lot of years of service, even with a high hr machine.Scott [/QUOTE]
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