Tractor Definition

[Mark Page]

What makes a tractor a tractor and a glorified lawn mower a tractor?

 

[kootch88]

You must have been reading the Mahindra forum!!! There is a raging debate going on over there with some pretty hot orange guys:laughing: Seems the feeling is Mahindra did the unthinkable, muddying the oh-so-clear waters by blurring the lines between SCUT and CUT, so who knows what the difference is between a garden tractor and a tractor tractor is!!

Maybe it is like a Hall of Famer, you know one when you see one??

 

[buck12]

My definition is simple. My John Deere gt 235 is my lawnmower and my Mahindra 2615 is my tractor. My neighbor has a smaller Home Depot JD and he calls it a tractor. To each his own

 

[mikehaugen]

I think anything that resembles a tractor (either big or small) is a tractor. There are just many categories of tractor, even lawn mowers have there own categories (lawn tractor or garden tractor). then of course you have scut, cut, utility tractor, and full out ag tractor. Then there is also industrial tractors that usually don't have a pto, but they are all really tractors. They even have those 2 wheel tractors that gravely and a couple other manufacturers make.

If Honda can get away with calling a unibody glorified open station wagon a truck, then I guess the term for tractor can be pretty open as well.

Just my opinion, others will vary.

 

[Little Red Tractor]

Though it pains me that the stuff sold at Home Depot and Lowe's can be billed as tractors, I guess it's really a matter of function. If you you can mow, pull, rake, till, blow...; it's not a single purpose machine, so I guess it's a tractor.

 

[whistlepig]

If it mows grass and pulls a lawn cart it isn't a tractor. If it can power every implement that can be attached to a tractor that's when I consider it to be a tractor.

 

[buck12]

If it mows grass and pulls a lawn cart it isn't a tractor. If it can power every implement that can be attached to a tractor that's when I consider it to be a tractor.

I agree. I have never understood why my JD mower is called a garden tractor. All it can do is cut grass and it has more plastic than a tupper ware store.

 

[murphy1244]

Then tell me, What is a SCUT???? And who makes them?

 

[Don87]

Then tell me, What is a SCUT???? And who makes them?

A SCUT is a 'sub-compact utility tractor', it is smaller than a 'CUT'(compact utility tractor) sometimes takes narrow 3pt.hitch implements, that don't raise as high as a CUT would, and is low to the ground. somewhere around 5 inches ground clearance. and has hydraulics that spec out much less than CUT series tractors. Shorter wheelbase than a CUT, and usually 44 to 48 inches wide.

Kubota, John Deere, Massey, Cub/Yanmar, New Holland.......and I here Kioti makes one now..........I still need to check the specs on that one.

 

[murphy1244]

A SCUT is a 'sub-compact utility tractor', it is smaller than a 'CUT'(compact utility tractor) sometimes takes narrow 3pt.hitch implements, that don't raise as high as a CUT would, and is low to the ground. somewhere around 5 inches ground clearance. and has hydraulics that spec out much less than CUT series tractors. Shorter wheelbase than a CUT, and usually 44 to 48 inches wide.

Kubota, John Deere, Massey, Cub/Yanmar, New Holland.......and I here Kioti makes one now..........I still need to check the specs on that one.

Let me know what you find out..