...Lawn Tractors

Lawn Tractors                                                                                      Back to: Tractor Pulling The use of lawn tractors has swept the world, as higher incomes have made it possible to afford both lawn tractors and the larger property to take care of with it.  Here is some interesting info about lawn tractors... Lawn Tractors Lawn Tractors Video See a John Deere lawn tractor pulling the sled.  It has plenty of power... Lawn Tractors Pull   Watch different lawn tractors in competition at a pulling event! Modified Lawn Tractors Have you ever heard or seen a modified lawn tractor pulling the sled? Power King Tractors These lawn tractors ruled with a unique design in their day. Craftsman Tractors Buy Craftsman parts and lawnn tractors from this page of auction info... John Deere Tractors The green and yellow lawnn tractors.  Buy tractor parts now... Lawn Tractors Resembling small tractors with the cutting deck mounted midship between the front and rear axles, lawn tractors are owned by many suburbanite families who have larger properties.  Engines on lawn tractors may be front or rear mount, with front mounted being the most popular.  Most lawn tractors cut grass using the horizontal rotating blade system, mostly with multiple blades. The first lawn mower was invented by an English engineer, Edwin Beard Budding in 1827.  His patent in 1830 described "a new combination and application of machinery for the purpose of cropping or shearing the vegetable surfaces of lawns, grass-plants Older Cub Cadet (above) and Craftsman (below) lawn tractors. and pleasure grounds." The patent  stated that "country gentlemen may find in using my machine themselves an amusing, useful and healthy exercise."  Indeed they would, as lawn tractors evolved into mowers for easier landscape management. Below: Garden, CUT and smaller lawn tractors for comparison... John Deere started production of its first lawn tractors in 1963, although lawn tractors really began being developed in the United States and Europe right after World War II.  In the US, Wheel Horse and Bolens battled back and forth for supremacy, while the bigger tractor manufacturers struggled to create lawn tractors and garden tractors for the common man.  Cub Cadet was just one example of a bigger tractor company (International Harvester) creating a line of what was to become legendary lawn tractors. Wheel Horse founder Elmer Pond really was one of the first to commercialize small, four-wheeled garden tractors and then make them even smaller, as lawn tractors were born.  His Ride Away lawn tractors were a little bit too large for home owners and so in 1955 Elmer introduced RJ-35 Junior lawn tractors.  It is considered to be the world's first miniature garden tractor (or lawn tractor), and truly helped to launch Wheel Horse into a national company almost overnight.  Their lawn tractors were also able to do multiple tasks.  Of course his great ideas and success woke up other lawn tractor competitors.  Smaller tractor sales declined in Europe in the late 1950s, while sales soared in the United States for the smaller horsepower lawn tractors.  Eventually, Wheel Horse was distributed in Europe in the 1960s and sales of lawn tractors soared in Europe as well, besting all other tractor models. Like today, lawn tractors sold very well in the 1960s and 1970s, but then attachments and extras became the latest wave of engineering.  Buyers loved lawn tractors with more features and Simplicity was a leader in that category.   Sears Craftsman brand lawn tractors became popular, as lawn tractors became even more widely distributed through the giant retailer.   Some of the bigger lawn tractors today are called Compact Utility Tractors or CUT.  They can of course cut a lawn, but can also plow snow, rototill dirt and broadcast seed.  They size-up between bigger garden tractors and smaller lawn tractors.  Lawn tractors today are made by numerous manufacturers from all over the world, with features and price being the primary differentiators.