About Compact Tractors
What we don’t do
The vast majority of compact tractors currently on sale in the UK are produced for use in third world countries, where labour is cheap, reliability and consistent performance aren’t expected, and unfortunately sometimes too often, where safety and quality issues are considered an intrusive nuisance. Many such machines don’t have a verifiable pedigree of any merit.
Importers or Dealers in these machines will try to present them as being perfectly suitable for the European customer. They will dress them up, maybe a better paint job, profess they've got European components that cannot be proven, and give verbal assurances to penetrating questions. If they're 'refurbished' tractors, they will plug any obvious leaks, and, being wary of the trade descriptions acts of the EU, will do their best to avoid putting any specific warranty of parts and labour in writing or on a letterhead. Both type of importers and dealers will cover critical issues with a bemusing range of weasel words - HP that cannot be verified without putting a machine on a dynomometer, and HP deteriorates with older tractors. Profess Lifting capability on a three point linkage or front end loader that cannot be tested therefore, not relied upon. Hours on the clock that cannot be proven to work accurately. Parts availability that you cannot mmediately verify but will only discover the truth when you need a critical component a few months or a year down the line.
At the root of it, what they're actually doing is importing a tractor that was entirely constructed for use within third world countries, and then trying to convince the UK or French buyer that they're ideally suited for them - in order to make a profit, - from you the customer. Any inferred guarantee or warranty is hard if not impossible to pin down in writing, or to claim upon, when, and its usually sooner than later, any problems begin.
What we do DO!
We sell a compact tractor that comes from three of the worlds most highly respected, high volume, engineering, tractor and automotive companies.
We sell a compact tractor that was conceived, designed and engineered specifically for the American market.
We sell a compact tractor that has a Technical Specifications and the Build Quality that makes it far too expensive to be sold within China.
We also provide something no other compact tractor dealers want to address:
- 2 Years, No Quibble, Parts & Labour, No Cost Warranty.
- No qualifications, no exceptions, no clarifications, no ifs, no buts.
- If it breaks or fails from normal use within the first two years – we fix it.
- A full money back guarantee for the first couple of months of ownership
- We put you in touch with existing current customers to verify our claims
- 24 - 48 hours European Central Parts Operation - linked direct to the Factory
- Certified Training Courses free of charge to all users - your premises or ours.
- Our own full colour Owners Manual written by ourselves
- Owners direct web access to after sales information and online live advice.
All customers have access to our intranet, (can you see the red Customer Login Tab in top right hand corner of each page of this website?). From this point, all customers have an extra facility which gives them private access to a wealth of information and assistance for as long as they own the small tractor. There are PDF's showing how to do various jobs in the fields, how to set up their attachments, safety and maintainance downloads, a 'how to do' section, and much much more - a kind of private reference file.
What is even better is that should a customer sell his machine to a new buyer, then that new owner can contact us to gain access to the same information and thereby have continued warranty cover, then they can register and continue that cover and have access to the full support and information system.
There are sections that can help them with advice about their land, implements, 'How To' section, - we want all users to get the maximum use and full capability out of their tractor and we also want them to be safe ongoing - so there are safety refreshers for things they might have forgotten.
We sell a product that is covered by an Operators Manual that has been written here in the UK by our own Engineers, (not a mechanic or a salesman, and most certainly not one in broken unintelligible English that you cannot determine anything from) Our Operators Manual, covers everything from routine checks, start up through to annual servicing. Its as good as you will get with your new Motor Car. This is a Manual that has brought us many plaudits and awards from HSE, Government Offices and even Railway Authorities.
Some years ago we examined the market in Europe for Compact Tractors and Machinery, we realised that the majority of dealers were importing either ‘refurbished’ or ‘used’ machines from the Far East and Australasia and selling them to an unsuspecting but hopeful public with little or no intention to provide any kind of after sales service.
The machines these dealers offer is usually of the very basic kind, designed for use within third world countries where there was scant regard to style, design, build quality, longevity and effective performance. They were for places where labour was cheap, downtime and erratic performance could be attended to by low cost local mechanics. More importantly, what might have once been a 25hp machine when it was new, still has a sticker saying 25hp, but in fact, through wear and age, it could be as low as 18 - 20hp, the dealers wont tell you this because it can only be determined by a dynomometer - beyond the range of equipment they have, but they will still sell you attachments professing they will work competently - and they wont !
Still want to buy a tractor from someone with a motley range of different coloured machines in various states of disrepair? Or one with a trusty sounding English name ? that underneath is something that not only have you never heard of but cannot verify ?
Such machines will have no safety stickers, or a sticker in an Asian Language, and as for an Operators Manual.....well ! !
Engineering integrity, build quality, reliability, and genuine immediate availablity of spare parts are essential components of peace of mind - not an extra or an afterthought, - You really cant afford to take chances with machinery of dubious pedigree.