What can a tractor do?

Now days a tractor can be used for many projects around the house, business, or farm. With a wide range of tractors and implements available the possibilities are endless allowing you to do anything from digging a pond to mowing your grass.

Operators can choose from a large variety of tractor implements to equip their machines according to their specific work needs. Accessories like front loaders are very popular and very useful for transporting dirt, soil, rocks, manure, and many other materials in the front mounted bucket. This can make jobs that are very slow, tedious, and labor intensive a breeze to do with the use of a front loader. Tractors equipped with a front loader can also be used to do heavy lifting. Sometimes operators will use a chain, rope, or strap attached to the front bucket to lift and move heavy items that would otherwise be nearly impossible to move by hand. Some owners attach hooks to their front buckets to make it easier to hook up a rope, strap, or chain for heavy lifting. A front loader can be extremely useful and provides a powerful alternative to back breaking manual labor.

Personally I use my 51 hp Kubota MX5100 in a new small business I just started; Clark Services. I have done mostly land clearing under brushing and some dirt spreading, and have been awestruck by the tasks this relatively small tractor can do. It is amazing how quickly I can get things accomplished. Anything from pushing over a 3 or 4 inch diameter hardwood to lifting heavy loads of soil rock and debris is just a routine task for my Kubota.

There are many other types of tractor implements available. Post hole diggers make building a fence much easier than having to dig each post hole by hand! A backhoe can be added to many tractors giving them the ability to excavate trenches, deep holes or small ponds. Wood chippers are available to chip up large tree limbs. Roto-tillers help cultivate large areas for a garden. You can even buy a PTO driven generator to supply auxiliary power at a jobsite or as emergency backup power. This is just a small sampling of the versatility of tractors and what they can do to help get the job done quicker and easier!