Tractor Facts for Kids

A John Deere tractor that is in a farm.

A tractor is a strong work vehicle used for farming. It usually has a seat for only the driver, and can be used to pull many different tools or trailers.

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A tractor pulling a chisel plow in Slovenia
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1882 Harrison Machine Works steam-powered traction engine
Dan Albone with his 1902 prototype Ivel Agricultural Motor, the first successful gasoline-powered tractor
An early Fordson discing a field in Princess Anne County, Virginia, in 1925
Volvo T25, 1956, gasoline tractor
A modern 4-wheel drive farm tractor in the Netherlands
A modern steerable all-tracked power unit planting wheat in North Dakota
An older model European farm tractor, of the type still common in Eastern Europe
Cutaway of modern tractor
A large, modern John Deere model 9400 four-wheel drive tractor with tripled wheels and a drawbar-towed tool chain, including one-pass tillage equipment, planter and fertilizer applicator with tanks
A modern three-point hitch
A PTO shaft connected to a tractor
A garden tractor towing a cargo cart
Farm tractor rear turnover
A modern John Deere 8110 Farm Tractor plowing a field using a chisel plow
A farm tractor used to power a pump for irrigating a plot of land
A tractor with a chaser bin
A tractor factory in Chelyabinsk in the Soviet Union circa 1930
A common backhoe-loader – the backhoe is on the left, the bucket/blade on the right.
Howse brand modular subsoiler mounted to a tractor
A Farmall "Regular"
A Model T tractor pulling a plow
A Ford rebuilt to an EPA tractor
An "A tractor" based on Volvo 760 – notice the slow-vehicle triangle and the longer boot.
Diesel-electric locomotive at work
A Trackmobile 4150
Road tractor pulling a flatbed trailer
Unimog 70200
An unusual application − road roller powered by a tractor-drive
The First Tractor, a painting by Vladimir Krikhatsky.
A single tractor in Brazil
Tractor that is used for self-sufficiency purposes in Germany
A scale model of a modern Ursus and Fendt tractor in Germany
Farm tractor in Balnain, Scotland
Alvin O. Lombard of Waterville, Maine, invented a tractor in 1901 for hauling logs, as displayed at the Maine State Museum in the capital city of Augusta. Known as "Lombard Log Haulers," these vehicles revolutionized logging in Maine.
Mercedes-Benz tractor

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