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Advantages of Compact Tractors

Updated: Jul 1, 2020


Compact Tractors now come in all shapes and sizes, making them suitable for a variety of different jobs and tasks.

They’ve also become much more accessible to individuals who might be considering carrying out landscaping, snow removal or heavy lifting tasks etc. – ultimately creating a wider target market where we now see compact tractors and certainly subcompact tractors being used for both commercial and non-commercial use.


Compact tractors are precisely what they say they are, compact! Fitting and manoeuvring into much smaller spaces than a standard tractor, compact tractors can carry out large jobs in the same way as well as handle heavy loads.

Subcompact tractors, however, are smaller again. Smaller than a compact tractor but still offering the flexibility and power to carry out a wide range of gardening tasks.

The reason these two types of tractors have grown in popularity?

The benefits they can offer to users.

Benefits including:

High efficiency. Whether you’re looking to carry out agricultural, building or gardening work, these small tractors can help with it all. Renowned for providing users with enhanced performance and high levels of efficiency, they make any task look easy!

Easy to maintain. Compact tractors have been designed with a broader target market in mind, so you will find maintenance of such machines so much easier, with simple access to engine compartments as well as practical and straightforward maintenance points around the machine itself.

Fully customisable. Small tractors can be used in conjunction with a range of accessories, depending on what you require — accessories such as rotovators, mowers, log splitters, trailers, backhoes, harrows and more.

Adaptability. These pieces of equipment are flexible and adaptable, due to their size, to manage many tasks, as well as easily switch between jobs at any given point.

Comfort. Surprisingly small tractors offer maximum comfort even when managing them across rough terrain. With flexible cabs/driver stations, you can be assured that everything inside can be adjusted to your preferences.

Easy to operate and durable. Compact and subcompact tractors are designed with powerful motors to help manoeuvre over rough terrain, drag heavy loads, and more.

Today, tractors are for more than just farming. Branching out and using them to their full potential means compact tractors are now being used for heavy-duty landscaping, digging, ploughing large gardens, hauling, housebuilding, clearing overgrown fields, hedge cutting, snow removal and so much more!

Most small tractors are now also equipped with a gear-shift function under load and hydrostatic transmission, allowing for much more ease of use and operation.

Not only this, but some newer models are also designed and built with exclusive management of the shifter and sensitive automatic transmission, helping to reduce operator fatigue!

Fully equipped with power steering, oil-immersed brakes and high-speed gearboxes, compact tractors now provide much more easy driving capabilities and features than ever before.

Advantages of using a compact tractor

  • Makes jobs much easier in comparison to carrying out such tasks manually

  • Tasks and work can be carried out faster and more efficiently

  • Multiple tasks can be carried out at once

  • Even a novice to tractors will be able to operate the basics of a compact tractor

  • Flexible and powerful enough (horsepower ranges between 15-55hp) to carry out a variety of tasks

  • Fit into smaller spaces

  • Easy to store as well as maintain!

Compact Tractors for Sale

If you’re considering buying a compact tractor or you’re looking at compact tractors for sale, speak to the specialists at Beckside Machinery.

On hand to provide you with expert compact tractor advice, and able to offer a range of accessories to meet all your requirements, contact us today on 01673 828 965 to find out more.


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