Lawn tractors are generally small tractors intended for farm work up to 2 acres. There are a number of attachments to the tractor, which can reduce your manual work quite considerably. This may help you employ your available time effectively in working on your garden in trim condition all year round. Lawn tractors are flexible items of kit. They can do a large amount of roles such as cutting, ploughing, lawn rolling, lamp post hole digging, and plenty of other roles that need to be done around the farm or home.

These roles are made possible thru their power take off shaft. This makes lawn tractors one of the gardener’s very best friends.

Purchasing a lawn tractor is much like purchasing an auto. The cost of a second-hand model is a lot less even if there’s little more wear than being driven out from the show room floor.

Consider the tractor you are buying particularly conscientiously. It is sometimes recommended that you try the tractor for yourself and get an idea about the time required in attaching and detaching the various accessories. Test-drive the tractor, and try and get a feel of getting out and in of tractor. Just taking it for a test spin, doesn’t mean that you have to buy it there and then. Resist the pressure, and consider your options carefully.

The basic model available is a Bolen 762F76, and the John Deere Spin-Steer SST-16 is available, albeit at a higher price range. The Poulan Pro PK185H42ST is in between these 2 in both price and quality.

Remember this is just the price of tractor alone without accessories. Accessories can include lots of different pieces. Just to begin with you can have a cover, a grass collection bag, small and big carts, and much, much more, all of which can add to the price, making it even more important to get a great price at the start. If you are going to use your tractor purely for lawn cropping, and you have a very small farm of one or two acres, you’ll have a peek at the stand-behind mower rather than going for a full on lawn tractor. All the same, look around and in this economy you should be in a position to find some real bargains if you look around.

Next, writer Weldon Duffy covers more on John Deere Tractor Savings which you can access via the John Deere Tractors blog.