Fuel Saving Tips

Many small farmers are moving toward a more environmentally conscious model of agriculture. For the small farmer, this move comes with economic risks. By purchasing, fixing and maintaining used farm tractors, the farmer can mitigate his economic risk while creating a new way of sustainable agriculture on his own farm.

Most small family farmers are self-taught experts in many fields. They have to be. For them, maintaining and fixing their own equipment is imperative to their economic survival. Therefore, most used farm tractors are in good shape or in easily fixable shape. As their needs change, farmers frequently sell their used equipment. Finding these tractors and other equipment is easy. Most farm bureaus, online farm community sites, farm cooperative publications and old-fashioned word-of-mouth are all good places to start when looking for previously owned tractors.

By maintaining their used farm tractors, farmers are keeping this equipment from entering the junkyard. Because equipment is older, it is far more affordable for the small farmer who has decided to make the economic and philosophical change toward a more sustainable type of agriculture. Used farm tractors can serve as a solid economic incentive to the small farmer.

The entire farm family also benefits from obtaining used tractors. Children can learn how to maintain and to fix their own equipment. Learning the fundamentals of mechanics is a skill that farm children can take into adulthood no matter where their career choices take them. Farm children also will see the positive change of sustainability.

Agricultural sustainability is viable economic choice for small farm families. Used farm tractors are one component toward the financial success of this environmentally friendly move. Because of the affordability of older tractors, the small farmer is taking a lower financial risk while competing with large factory farms. Every year, more consumers are demanding local, organic food. The small family farmer is in a perfect position to fill this growing trend.

The small scale farmer should consider used farm tractors as a means of growing and maintaining an environmentally friendly farm model. Not only is it sound economically but also it can help his fellow farmer. Used tractors do have a second, third or longer life and can continue to sow the seeds for a greener future.

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In early 1800s, portable engines were first farm engines that were powered. These were steam engines using wheels that helped in driving mechanical farm machinery using a flexible belt. From these, the first traction engines developed around 1850. They were readily adopted for use in agriculture.

Trahere means “to pull” which comes from the Latin language, and tractor is its agent noun. The tractor unit was used for the first time as “a vehicle or an engine used for pulling ploughs or wagons” and this was recorded to occur in 1901. Before this, the common term used in 1859 was “traction engine”.

The term tractor implies “farm tractor” in Germany, Argentina, Ireland, Britain, Spain, Australia and India. In the US and in Canada, farm tractor also tends to include various other implements that can be attached to the tractor.

The origin of the name tractor is Latin. It is the agent noun for trahere which means “to pull”. Its use was firstly recorded in 1901 as “a vehicle or engine used for pulling ploughs or wagons”. It displaced the term used earlier called “traction engine” (1859). In Australia, Argentina, India, Ireland, Britain, Germany and Spain, the word or name “tractor” is a term that implies “farm tractor”.

If you talk about the first tractor engines, then they were ploughing engines that were powered by steam. Using a cable wire, a pair of these tractor engines were used for hauling a plough between them, back and forth across the field. In US, the condition of soils often permitted a direct-haul plough using a steam engine. However, in the UK and other places used ploughing engines that resulted in cable-hauled ploughing.

It was well into 20th century that agricultural engines powered by steam were used, before being replaced by engines with internal combustion that tended to be more reliable.

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