Best Batteries Ever?

rusty6 · Sep 18, 2013

We were doing a little maintenance on the combine the other day and I happened to comment that I had only put one set of batteries in this CIH 1660 since I bought it 1998. The batteries are 14 years old this summer and still working good as new. Interstate Workaholics. I think it is a record for this farm although the Magna Starts in my CIH magnum 7130 have got to be right up there around the same age.

IBOrangeinTX · Sep 18, 2013

I agree on the Workaholics. Have two on my cab tractor, been there 11 yrs and still working fine. Not so good on the dump truck tho, only 8yrs so far.
Have a good one!

gmccool · Sep 18, 2013

That is interesting. I have a Interstate Workaholic battery in my old classic car (1965 Ford Galaxy XL) I put it in in 1997 & it died this spring. I wanted to tell people how good it was but I knew friends would try to say it was installed in 2007 & not in 1997. We got our moneys worth out of it that is for sure.

Mike M · Sep 18, 2013

I had a Penske from K Mart I pulled out of the 1 ton last year it was from 1999

That was my personal record !!!!

Anonymous-0 · Sep 18, 2013

I thought I was doing good with the 8 year old Napa battery in
my pickup

jbp · Sep 18, 2013

Betty, my wife bought a Honda 4 trax in April of 1999. It still has the original battery and spark plug in it. It has worn out 2 sets of tires so it has been ridden quite a bit. Joe

RayP(MI) · Sep 18, 2013

Had origional battery in a JD 140 garden tractor for 29 years. John Deere brand. And we didn't spare that battery any either. Bounding around in the tractor - sitting for days, even weeks on end, used for booster battery whenever something else didn't start... In it's defense, it was a conventional battery, size of a small car battery, not one of those little toy batteries you find now in garden tractors.

fordfarming · Sep 18, 2013

you probably just jinxed your self and first cold snap it wont start! hope not though

rusty6 · Sep 18, 2013

You may be right on that. I hope never to have to run a combine in really cold weather but it happens.
I also had good luck with one of those Japanese batteries, can't recall the name but it was the original battery in a Honda Big Red trike. Manufactured in 1986. I think that battery lasted even longer than 14 years.

Pair-a-dice farm · Sep 18, 2013

I've got a electric start generator that was bought 12 years ago that has the original battery . I used it a couple of hours ago. My personal best was a remanufactured power unit battery that I used on a D19. It was 14 years old before it gave up.

ShadetreeRet · Sep 18, 2013

A few years I was working behind the parts counter at a Ford dealership, one of our customers came in one day and wanted to replace the batteries in his E-350 since winter was coming on and they were three years old. Done deal and we had his old batteries as cores and they held a good charge. Since the old batteries were cores, with permission of the parts manager, I brought an old battery for an exchange core and took the larger of the two batteries and installed it into my old 76 F-150. That battery lasted me another six years. One of the best deals, that I ever got!

RodinNS · Sep 18, 2013

I also got 14 years from a pair of 1100 amp Delco 31's... Those were late 80's vintage. Not so much on the new ones...

Rod

Robert Major · Sep 19, 2013

Hi
Best batteries I've had are Varta, Traded an 88 Belarus in through our dealership back in England, the batteries where date etched when fitted from new in 88, sold that tractor to a guy in 2001 ish when we brought it to Canada.
He changed the batteries in 2002 thinking that was his starting problem, but it wasn't.

The other 2 good batteries I had came from New Holland in 2002 when I worked for them. one died last year, just quit one day no warning.
The other is still working now. both would start a grain truck after sitting most of the winter in - 40oc, without jumper cables or boosting.

The batteries from our local coop last about 2 years if your lucky. Not sure what is a good brand to buy now though, that would last as long as the 4 good ones I have used around here.
Regards Robert

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