Two-wheel tractor

A Rot-E-Taek hauling logs in Isan, Thailand. This is one of many types of two-wheel tractor.
Moline Universal Tractor advertisement, 1918. Like many two-wheel tractors, this tractor together with its towed implement formed a four-wheel articulated unit, with the operator riding the implement.[1]

Two-wheel tractor or walking tractor (French: motoculteur, Russian: мотоблок (motoblok), German: Einachsschlepper) are generic terms understood in the US and in parts of Europe to represent a single-axle tractor, which is a tractor with one axle, self-powered and self-propelled, which can pull and power various farm implements such as a trailer, cultivator or harrow, a plough, or various seeders and harvesters. The operator usually walks behind it or rides the implement being towed. Similar terms are mistakenly applied to the household rotary tiller or power tiller; although these may be wheeled and/or self-propelled, they are not tailored for towing implements. A two-wheeled tractor specializes in pulling any of numerous types of implements, whereas rotary tillers specialize in soil tillage with their dedicated digging tools. This article concerns two-wheeled tractors as distinguished from such tillers.

  1. ^ Moline Plow Company (March 1918), "Moline Plow Company advertisement for the Moline Universal Tractor", Gas Power, 15 (9), archived from the original on 2020-08-06, retrieved 2016-10-20.

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