How To Use A Compact Tractor On Your Hobby Farm?

Owning and operating a small farm is a long held ambition by many people trapped in the city. One necessary farm implement is the compact tractor. These smaller tractors are rated around 30 horse power or less and are useful for many tasks on your small farm. This article will describe typical ways of utilizing a compact tractor in your daily farming activities.

One of the first jobs in the morning is the feeding and care of your animals. By using a front end loader on the compact tractor, you can move bales of hay to the corral or feeding area. The front loader can then be used to clear away manure from the pens and bedding shed. The bucket or scoop on the front loader is very handy for hauling almost any object like a very powerful wheelbarrow. These are but a few jobs this important attachment can accomplish.

You may want to build a fence to create a new pen for the goats you intend to buy. You can dig post holes with a manual digger but a power post hole auger mounted on the three point hitch on the back of your compact tractor will make short work of this job.

Since you want to keep you property neat and tidy, mowing brush and weeds is a top priority. A brush mower attached to the three point hitch and powered from the tractor by a power take off connection will cut and shred over grown areas quickly and efficiently.

If you have room on your farm for crops, a series of farm implements will make planting and harvesting fun instead of back breaking manual labor. Planting will require a plow to turn over the soil, a harrow to smooth the field to get it ready for planting, and a planter to plant the desired crop.

These are but a few of the many tasks you can accomplish on your small farm using a compact tractor and the many implements that go along with it. The compact tractor is a valuable and necessary tool for your farming success.