Tractor Tasks & Useful Implements

Your tractor is a powerful machine that’s capable of handling anything you throw at it. Whether you use it for lawn maintenance and landscaping, planting fields on your farm, or towing trailers around your ranch, it gives you the power needed to get these jobs done quickly and easily. But are you getting the absolute most out of your tractor that you can?

The truth is that there are a number of attachments and implements that can boost your tractor’s performance even further, depending on what tasks you’re doing. Adding these attachments can make your work faster and easier than ever before! This guide to tractor tasks and the tools needed to complete them comes to you courtesy of your friends at Magnum Power, located in Lawson, MO. Come talk to us if you have any questions after reading!

Gardening & Crop Planting

If you have a sizable garden or you plant crops on your property, a tractor can simplify your workload significantly. Tractors designed for crop and garden usage are great to assist with weed control, preparing seedbeds and tilling soil. Tilling attachments break up the soil and make it easy to work with, and scrapers will smooth that land out and make it ready for planting. A cultivator will make it easy to add nutrients to your soil. You can use these attachments on a large backyard garden or on several acres of fields that need to be sown.

Landscaping

A compact tractor can be a very good machine for professional landscapers and owners of large properties, and there is a wide variety of attachments designed to assist with landscaping tasks. Loaders can transport material like gravel, soil or sand easily and quickly. Spreaders and sprayers can reduce workload by applying grass seed or weed chemicals to large plots of land quickly. Add a utility cart to the back of your tractor to haul around your tools, loose materials, and smaller pieces of equipment. If you want to plant trees or large plants, attach a backhoe and save yourself the backbreaking labor of digging holes by hand!

Managing Livestock

Got livestock? Then you know how much work animal husbandry can be! A tractor can be of great benefit to you in terms of reducing your workload when it comes to tending to your animals. Loader attachments can clear out manure and transport feed, but more compact models may be better for these tasks. More specialized attachments can assist you here, too, like mixers for feed and manure forks. You’ll want a tractor that’s able to fit in tight spaces like pens and stalls to complete this work.

Clearing Snow

When the temperatures drop here in the Midwest, they generally bring snowstorms along with them. We can sometimes see a foot or more of accumulation rather quickly, so it’s important to be able to clear it quickly, particularly if you live out in the country where snowplows won’t get to you. Long driveways and country roads need to be swept clean to allow vehicles to pass, so equip your tractor with a snowplow or loader attachment. If you’d like, you can also invest in a blower attachment to toss snow aside more quickly.

Now you know what types of implements to add to get the most out of your tractor for a huge array of tasks. Still don’t have one of these amazing machines? Stop by our location in Lawson to check out our current selection of new and used tractors for sale. Magnum Power proudly serves Clay County, as well as the cities of Gladstone and Kansas City, MO.