The word tractor was taken from Latin, being the agent noun of trahere "to pull". T he first recorded use of the word meaning "an engine or vehicle for pulling wagons or plows" occurred in 1896, from the earlier term "traction motor
Contact usIn the UK, Ireland, Australia, India, Spain, Argentina, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, the Netherlands, and Germany, the word "tractor" usually means "farm tractor", and the use of the word "tractor" to mean other types of vehicles is familiar to the vehicle trade, but unfamiliar to much of the general public. In Canada and the US
he first powered farm implements in the early 19th century were portable engines – steam engines on wheels that could be used to drive mechanical farm machinery by way of a flexible belt. Richard Trevithick designed the first 'semi-portable' stationary steam engine for agricultural use, known as a "barn engine" in 1812,
Richard Hornsby & Sons are credited with producing and selling the first oil-engined tractor in Britain, invented by Herbert Akroyd Stuart. The Hornsby-Akroyd Patent Safety Oil Traction Engine was made in 1896 with a 20 hp (15 kW) engine. In 1897, it was bought by Mr. Locke-King, the first recorded British tractor sale. That year, it won a Silver Medal from the Royal Agricultural Society of England. It later returned to the factory for a caterpillar track fitting.
The first three-point hitches were experimented with in 1917. After Harry Ferguson applied for a British patent for his three-point hitch in 1926, they became popular. A three-point attachment of the implement to the tractor is the simplest and the only statically determinate way of joining two bodies in engineering. The Ferguson-Brown Company produced the Model A Ferguson-Brown tractor with a Ferguson-designed hydraulic hitch
TRANSMISSION (GEARBOX) | |
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Clutch type | Dual Clutch |
Transmission type | Full Constant mesh |
Gear Level Position | Center Shift / Side Shift |
Speed min-max | 2.5 – 30.4 kmph |
Reverse speed min - max | 2.7 – 10.5 kmph |
Forward Gears | 8 |
Reverse Gears | 2 |
Rear Axle | - |
BRAKES | |
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Brake Type | Multi Plate Oil Immersed Disc Brake |
Turning radius with brake | NA |
ENGINE | |
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HP Category | 55 HP |
Engine Capacity | 3680 cc |
Engine Rated RPM | 1850 RPM |
Max Torque | - |
No of Cylinder | 4 |
Air Filter | Dry type |
Cooling System | Coolant Cooled |
Tractors can be generally classified by number of axles or wheels, with main categories of two-wheel tractors (single-axle tractors) and four-wheel tractors (two-axle tractors); more axles are possible but uncommon.
TRANSMISSION (GEARBOX) | |
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Clutch type | Single / Dual |
Transmission type | Constant mesh |
Gear Level Position | Center Shift / Side Shift |
Speed min-max | 2.8 – 30.8 kmph |
Reverse speed min - max | 3.6 – 11.1 kmph |
Forward Gears | 8 |
Reverse Gears | 2 |
Rear Axle | - |
BRAKES | |
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Brake Type | Multi Plate Oil Immersed Disc Brake |
Turning radius with brake | NA |
ENGINE | |
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HP Category | 50 HP |
Engine Capacity | 2761 cc |
Engine Rated RPM | 2200 RPM |
Max Torque | - |
No of Cylinder | 3 |
Air Filter | Dry type with pre-cleaner |
Cooling System | Water Cooled |
Four-wheel drive tractors began to appear in the 1960s. Some four-wheel drive tractors have the standard "two large, two small" configuration typical of smaller tractors, while some have four large, powered wheels. The larger tractors are typically an articulated, center-hinged design steered by hydraulic cylinders that move the forward power unit while the trailing unit is not steered separately.
TRANSMISSION (GEARBOX) | |
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Clutch type | Single / Dual |
Transmission type | NA |
Gear Level Position | Center Shift / Side Shift |
Speed min-max | 2.7 - 29.7 kmph |
Reverse speed min - max | 3.5 - 10.9 kmph |
Forward Gears | 8 |
Reverse Gears | 2 |
Rear Axle | - |
BRAKES | |
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Brake Type | Multi Plate Oil Immersed Brake |
Turning radius with brake | NA |
ENGINE | |
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HP Category | 47 HP |
Engine Capacity | 2761 cc |
Engine Rated RPM | 2000 RPM |
Max Torque | - |
No of Cylinder | 3 |
Air Filter | |
Cooling System |
In the early 21st century, articulated or non-articulated, steerable multitrack tractors have largely supplanted the Caterpillar type for farm use. Larger types of modern farm tractors include articulated four-wheel or eight-wheel drive units with one or two power units which are hinged in the middle and steered by hydraulic clutches or pumps. A relatively recent development is the replacement of wheels or steel crawler-type tracks with flexible
TRANSMISSION (GEARBOX) | |
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Clutch type | Single / Dual |
Transmission type | Constant Mesh |
Gear Level Position | Center Shift / Side Shift |
Speed min-max | 2.6 - 29.3 kmph |
Reverse speed min - max | 3.4 - 10.8 kmph |
Forward Gears | 8 |
Reverse Gears | 2 |
Rear Axle | - |
BRAKES | |
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Brake Type | Multi Plate Oil Immersed Disc Brake |
Turning radius with brake | NA |
ENGINE | |
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HP Category | 44 HP |
Engine Capacity | 2490 cc |
Engine Rated RPM | 2200 RPM |
Max Torque | - |
No of Cylinder | 3 |
Air Filter | Wet type |
Cooling System | Water Cooled |
Dieselisation gained momentum starting in the 1960s, and modern farm tractors usually employ diesel engines, which range in power output from 18 to 575 horsepower (15 to 480 kW). Size and output are dependent on application, with smaller tractors used for lawn mowing, landscaping, orchard work, and truck farming, and larger tractors for vast fields of wheat, corn, soy, and other bulk crops.
TRANSMISSION (GEARBOX) | |
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Clutch type | Single / Dual |
Transmission type | Constant mesh |
Gear Level Position | Center Shift |
Speed min-max | 2.7 – 30.6 kmph |
Reverse speed min - max | 3.3 10.2 kmph |
Forward Gears | 8 |
Reverse Gears | 2 |
Rear Axle | - |
BRAKES | |
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Brake Type | Multi Plate Oil Immersed Disc Brake |
Turning radius with brake | NA |
ENGINE | |
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HP Category | 41 HP |
Engine Capacity | 2339 cc |
Engine Rated RPM | 2200 RPM |
Max Torque | - |
No of Cylinder | 3 |
Air Filter | Wet type |
Cooling System | Water Cooled |
Most older farm tractors use a manual transmission with several gear ratios, typically three to six, sometimes multiplied into two or three ranges. This arrangement provides a set of discrete ratios that, combined with the varying of the throttle, allow final-drive speeds from less than to about 25 miles per hour (40 km/h).
TRANSMISSION (GEARBOX) | |
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Clutch type | Single Clutch |
Transmission type | Full Constant mesh |
Gear Level Position | Center Shift |
Speed min-max | 2.7 – 30.6 kmph |
Reverse speed min - max | 3.3 – 10.2 kmph |
Forward Gears | 8 |
Reverse Gears | 2 |
Rear Axle | - |
BRAKES | |
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Brake Type | Multi Plate Oil Immersed Disc Brake |
Turning radius with brake | NA |
ENGINE | |
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HP Category | 37 HP |
Engine Capacity | 2146 cc |
Engine Rated RPM | 2200 RPM |
Max Torque | - |
No of Cylinder | 3 |
Air Filter | Wet type |
Cooling System | Water Cooled |
The power produced by the engine must be transmitted to the implement or equipment to do the actual work intended for the equipment. This may be accomplished via a drawbar or hitch system if the implement is to be towed or otherwise pulled through the tractive power of the engine, or via a pulley or power takeoff system if the implement is stationary, or a combination of the two.
Drawbars were appropriate to the dawn of mechanization, because they were very simple in concept and because as the tractor replaced the horse, existing horse-drawn implements usually already had running gear. As the history of mechanization progressed,
The drawbar system was virtually the exclusive method of attaching implements (other than direct attachment to the tractor) before Harry Ferguson developed the three-point hitch
In addition to towing an implement or supplying tractive power through the wheels, most tractors have a means to transfer power to another machine such as a baler, swather, or mower. Unless it functions solely by pulling it through or over the ground, a towed implement needs its own power source (such as a baler or combine with a separate engine) or else a means of transmitting power from the tractor to the mechanical operations of the equipment.
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