Articulated tractors are high horse-powered four-wheel drive (4WD) agricultural tractors that articulate (bend) in the middle. The tractors feature four tires, or sets of tires, of equal size that give the tractor lots of traction. These tractors are often used for tillage and pulling large grain carts.
Dual tractors[]
Dual tractors, or tandem tractors, are a type of articulated tractor. A number of farmers, and later, manufacturers, built articulated tractors that used 2 medium-sized tractors bolted together with a pivot and removed the front axles to create an articulated machine with 4-wd and twice the power of the original tractor that it was based on. The most notable make in the UK were Doe with their Doe Triple D model based on Fordson E1A Major tractors.
Other tractors have been built as one off or to order by engineering firms in Britain, the USA and Australia, including, but not limited to: John Deere, Massey Ferguson, Ford, Ferguson and Chamberlain, amonst others.
Manufacturers[]
For manufacturers of articulated tractors and related tractor models:
- see also: Category:Articulated tractors
- ACO
- Acremaster, was taken over by Horwood Bagshaw in the 1980s.
- AGCO, changed the name of it's articulated tractors in 2007 to Challenger.
- Allis-Chalmers, ended production when Deutz-Fahr took over.
- Baldwin, ended production in 1990.
- Belarus tractors
- Bell
- Big Bud
- Buhler Versatile
- Case IH
- Deutz
- Fiat-New Holland
- Fiat-Versatile
- Ford FW series
- Ford-Versatile
- IMT
- International Harvester
- John Deere
- Kirovets
- Lely Industries
- Lioness
- Massey Ferguson
- McConnell Tractors, later became part of Challenger.
- New Holland
- Pauny
- Phoenix, became part of Horwood Bagshaw.
- RostSelMash
- Rite
- Steiger, was taken over by Case IH
- Titan Tractors
- Universal
- Versatile
- Wagner, ended production due to a contract fallout with John Deere in the 1950s.
- Waltanna, ended production in the mid-1990s.
- White Farm Equipment, got sold to AGCO.
- Zanello
A number of farmers also built one-off's from standard parts or out of existing machines.
See also[]
- Glossary Index for common terms