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Originally Posted by Mercury Bullet
10,000 hours is the lifespan we usually budget for.
You can keep things going for a while with engine rebuilds and such but once frames start cracking that's it.
We recently retired 2 versatile 1050's for that reason. Old girls had been toiling since the mid 80's so can't complain.
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Fair enough MB. There is always also the Aussie ingenuity approach, you end up with huge custom equipment like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6w-ZnkeXI7c
Note, its basically 1940s level of mechanical tech, and don't it go!