Small Tractors for Sale - How Much Horsepower do you Need? - Business

When you buy a new tractor you need to consider what kinds of jobs the tractor will be doing. How you use your tractor, whether it is a compact model, a small tractor or a larger type, will affect how much horsepower you need and what features the tractor must have. Look around at the small for sale and you will see the range of features and horsepower available in different brands and within the same brand of tractor. Horsepower is one of the main ways you can choose between small for sale as it affects the type of work you can do with your tractor, the type of attachments you can fix to your tractor and, to a certain extent, the price tag on the tractor.

In general, the small at one end of the tractor market come with less than 25 horsepower. Small with less than 25hp can handle lawn work and undemanding tasks on the farm or in the garden but you won't have the power for more heavy-duty tasks like heavy mowing or tilling. With a little more power, the smaller with between 25 and 65 horsepower are useful for people with small ranches, large estates or stables because they can handle a wider range of tasks but they are not so powerful as to be too expensive. When you go above 65 horsepower you get a tractor for agricultural use which can bale hay and till fields. The biggest for commercial farming are over 200 horsepower - not something you would ever use in the garden but ideal for heavy-duty work on large farms.

When you have an idea of the general range in which you want your tractor to fall you can narrow your choice down further by talking to a tractor dealer. If you buy a tractor that has too little horsepower you won't be able to manage the jobs you have to do. But if you buy a tractor with too much horsepower you're left with an expensive machine that damages the ground. It helps to talk through your power requirements with a dealer as they can advise you on exactly what you need to get your jobs done. Be careful when you look at the horsepower as some provide less horsepower to power attachments through the power take-off connection so check your attachments if you think they won't work on this system.

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