Tractor Tasks & Useful Implements

If you’re a farmer, rancher, or professional landscaper, you’ve no doubt made frequent use of one or more tractors on your property to help shorten and simplify your labor load. Even those who simply have large pieces of residential property may use a lawn tractor to get control of their grass. 

Farms have so many different tasks that need doing, from livestock management to crop planting, so effectively using your tractor to do these jobs will help them get done more quickly and easily.

But your tractor can do so much more if you know how to properly equip it! Adding some useful implements can improve your machine’s function when it comes to performing specific tasks. You can get loaders, mowers, box blades, scrapers, cutters and spreaders for your tractor, as well as other useful implements.

As your local tractor dealer, Rivera's Machinery, Inc. of Donna, TX, is here to help you determine what implements will help with what tasks. Read over this guide and bring us any questions you might have when you’re finished. Our staff will be more than happy to assist you with the shopping process.

Mowing & Clearing Land

Tractors are great for mowing large tracts of land and they can also help you to clear vegetation like brush and brambles. But even the most powerful tractors can’t cut grass over half a foot tall easily. Tractor implements like cutters and mowers can improve its function significantly. Cutting attachments are strong and durable enough that small rocks or branches won’t get in the way.

Gardening

Tillage, seedbed preparation, and weed control are all going to be much easier tasks with the appropriate tractor implements installed on your machine. Tilling attachments can break up soil and scrapers can smooth it out so you’ll have nice, clean beds with turned-over soil that’s ready for planting. Cultivators will help you to deliver nutrients to your plants. Use these tools for your backyard garden or to assist with the management of many fields of crops.

Landscaping

You can use your compact tractor as a landscaping machine for your professional business or as an owner of a large property. Loaders can transport loose material easily and quickly over your grounds. Sprayers and spreaders are other great attachments to reduce how much labor you’ll have to do. If you’d like, you can even hitch a towing cart or trailer to your tractor to allow you to haul tools and materials from task to task. Attach a backhoe if you want to plant trees and bushes—it’ll help you dig evenly sized holes for planting them in tidy rows. 

Managing Livestock

Owning livestock is pretty commonplace if you have a farm, but there’s a great deal of work that has to be put into taking care of your animals. Using a loader to move around feed or hay can make that task easier. Cleaning manure out of stalls and pens becomes much easier, too, but you'll likely need a more compact model to help with this. Manure forks and grinder-mixers are other tractor implements that can make livestock management much simpler and easier to sustain.

Whatever it is you have to do on a farm, your tractor can help you do it. And if you know what implements you need for individual tasks, then you can make your tractor even more efficient and versatile. Ready to choose some tractor implements or buy a new piece of farm equipment? Come to our Donna location to check out our selection of tractors and implements for sale. We can help you find exactly what you need to get your farm in shape! Rivera’s Machinery, Inc. serves the cities of Harlingen and San Benito, TX.