How to Choose the Tractor Size for a Small Acreage

How do you choose what size tractor to purchase if you just moved onto a new piece of property? It will quite frankly depend on what you will be doing with the property and what type of land the property is. You can judge a bit from the size of the land, but not completely.

• Decide on what you are going to do on your land. If you have 5-15 acres you can most likely get by with a 25-35 horsepower tractor. When going up in acres you should most likely move on up to the 50-75 and up horsepower size.


• Understand that these tractors can be very versatile. There are tools in just about every area you can think of and if you are going to use any of them you need the tractor to do it. There are different size buckets and if you are doing some major landscaping go with the larger models. The loader attachments are from pallet forks to bale huggers to bale carriers. There are snow blowers, hay equipment, manure spreaders and tillers and more.


• Keep in mind that if you plan on using your tractor year round and you want it to be able to do what you want, you should most likely go with big to start with. You don’t want to go small and have to move up at a later date. These tractors can also do a multitude of major landscaping chores as well. There are plenty of attachments to accomplish these chores.


• Remember that you need to know what the tractor will be used for and then go a little bigger when you buy it. You will be so much better off to have more than enough tractor than not quite enough.