About Japanese tractors

Japanese farmers use their tractors around 50-60 working hours yearly primarily for tilling the soil. Due to the Japanese agrcultural subsidy system tractor owners get incentives to buy new machines after 500-1000 working hours, which means that they can purchase new tractors before using their former tractors too much. Partly due to this fact, and the very good price-value ratio of used Japanese tractors these machines are very popular around the world.

At first sight, these brands seem to be unkown for many. Most of them are large Japanese multinational companies though. The Kubota is Japan's largest tractor manufaturer, that was established in 1890. The reliability and superior quality of Kubota tractors is indicated by the fact that the company is a market leader not only in Japan but in the US as well. The Yanmar company - founded in 1912 - primarily renowned for its diesel engines which are also used in John Deere tractors. Yanmar's dominance in the marine diesel market is a further evidence of the performance and reliability of their products.

Mitsubishi is not necessary to be intoduced because it's enough to think about the car industry.

Iseki, Shibaura and Hinomoto brands are the less familiar names for European consumers. The reason is that these companies specialized almast exclusively in tractor manufacturing. A good point to purchase the latter two brands is their cheaper price with the same reliable Japanese quality.

The tractors come with 2 or 4WD, 2, 3 or 4 cylinder four stroke water cooled engines from 10 to 35HP. Every tractor features hydraulic, PTO, differential lock, independent side breaking. Newer types also have power steering, direct injection engines and 2 hydraulic circles.

On the whole, we can say that these small tractors have great characteriscs at a small price.