Compact tractors

[AYF]

Saw a well known local amasser of machinery and old kit advertising a pair of Kubota compact tractors.
3pl, pto, the works.
And a range of gear to go on them.

Got me thinking what the hire market for such kit is?

I tried looking for one to do my garden and could find a fleet of old fergies to borrow, but nothing truly compact to hire!

Seems easy enough, deliver with a pickup and trailer. No need for haulage rigs or running drivers about.

 

[Mike]

Saw a well known local amasser of machinery and old kit advertising a pair of Kubota compact tractors.
3pl, pto, the works.
And a range of gear to go on them.

Got me thinking what the hire market for such kit is?

I tried looking for one to do my garden and could find a fleet of old fergies to borrow, but nothing truly compact to hire!

Seems easy enough, deliver with a pickup and trailer. No need for haulage rigs or running drivers about.

I think like a lot of things, you would want to be doing it in volume
I doubt it would pay for just a few tractors, by the time you would have specialist hire insurance etc paid

 

[AYF]

I think like a lot of things, you would want to be doing it in volume
I doubt it would pay for just a few tractors, by the time you would have specialist hire insurance etc paid

See what you mean.
And I suppose a lot of places would want a driver too.

Might be a better job than running about on big tractors mind you!

 

[lough]

Saw a well known local amasser of machinery and old kit advertising a pair of Kubota compact tractors.
3pl, pto, the works.
And a range of gear to go on them.

Got me thinking what the hire market for such kit is?

I tried looking for one to do my garden and could find a fleet of old fergies to borrow, but nothing truly compact to hire!

Seems easy enough, deliver with a pickup and trailer. No need for haulage rigs or running drivers about.

When you say do your garden, does that mean making a lawn. I used to rake lawns for my uncle and the easiest lawn I ever raked was along side a 6 ton track machine with a rake on her.
The digger would rake a 3 ft strip and I would follow along side with the hand rake and rake the 3 ft strip, the digger would then come along again and pull the stones and rubbish back another 3ft.
A mini digger and a raking bucket would be much better than a tractor

 

[Mike]

When you say do your garden, does that mean making a lawn. I used to rake lawns for my uncle and the easiest lawn I ever raked was along side a 6 ton track machine with a rake on her.
The digger would rake a 3 ft strip and I would follow along side with the hand rake and rake the 3 ft strip, the digger would then come along again and pull the stones and rubbish back another 3ft.
A mini digger and a raking bucket would be much better than a tractor

Most of them do it this way now, and seeding is done with something like this

 

[TAFKAT]

When you say do your garden, does that mean making a lawn. I used to rake lawns for my uncle and the easiest lawn I ever raked was along side a 6 ton track machine with a rake on her.
The digger would rake a 3 ft strip and I would follow along side with the hand rake and rake the 3 ft strip, the digger would then come along again and pull the stones and rubbish back another 3ft.
A mini digger and a raking bucket would be much better than a tractor

Depends on the ground you're dealing with, in the right conditions a stone burier on a compact tractor would leave a rake on a mini digger for dust and you'd have very little hand raking to do at all. I think the biggest problem with @AYF's idea is you're generally going to be dealing with people with little or no knowledge of operation machinery and the repair bills will be colossal.

 

[AYF]

When you say do your garden, does that mean making a lawn. I used to rake lawns for my uncle and the easiest lawn I ever raked was along side a 6 ton track machine with a rake on her.
The digger would rake a 3 ft strip and I would follow along side with the hand rake and rake the 3 ft strip, the digger would then come along again and pull the stones and rubbish back another 3ft.
A mini digger and a raking bucket would be much better than a tractor

Yep, making the lawn.
I'd had the basics done with a digger.
I was after something to cultivate and put the last finish on. And a small roller.
Wound up faffing and struggling with big implements and more by hand than I'd have liked!
I can see with the rise of wildflower patches there may be a market for brush clearing gear capable of going through a narrow gap too.

But I suppose the 360° market has those kinds of jobs sown up too.

 

[drew]

These yokes are surprisingly capable in fairness to them, normally has a 5ft deck under it but took it off to fit up a few paths that the wheels just barely fit. Could do with some front weight really but careful driving and the side brakes gets ya most places(albeit going backwards mostly 🤣)