The Tractor Shed
This is where we keep the guides, tractor facts, useful bits and muddy little discoveries that don’t quite belong anywhere else.
Some of it will help before a tractor driving experience. Some of it will explain what all those controls, tyres and enormous bits of machinery actually do.
And some of it is here simply because tractors are surprisingly interesting once you start poking around.
Useful Bits.
Curious Bits.
A Few Things Worth
Poking Around In.
Start with the practical stuff, wander into the machinery, then lose five minutes wondering why tractor wheels are quite so enormous. That is more or less how the Shed works.
What Is It Actually Like to Drive a Tractor?
Big, high up and rather more civilised than you might expect. Here is what happens when you finally climb into the cab and get moving.
Have a read →What Do All Those Tractor Controls Actually Do?
Pedals, levers, hydraulics, PTOs and the buttons that make a modern tractor cab look mildly alarming.
Have a rummage →Why Are Tractor Rear Wheels So Big?
It is not just to make tractors look enormous. Those great big tyres have several rather clever jobs.
Find out why →There’s More Than One
Corner to a Tractor Shed.
These are the sorts of things you will find in here. We will add to them as the Shed fills up.
Driving
What tractors feel like from the driver’s seat, how you get started and what happens once those enormous wheels begin to move.
Machines
Cabs, controls, tyres, engines and the clever mechanical bits that make a tractor considerably more than a big green box on wheels.
Tractor Stuff
Facts, history, curiosities and perfectly reasonable questions that somehow lead you much further down the tractor rabbit hole than expected.
Choosing a Drive
Thirty minutes or two hours? Driving solo or taking someone with you? Practical help when reading about tractors turns into wanting a go.
Fancy Getting
Out of the Shed?
Reading about tractors is all well and good. At some point, somebody has to turn the key.