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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.

 

 

A selection of our wide customer base
Smallholders

'Is it Organic' was one of the most frequently used phrases of the past ten to fifteen years. People became more interested about the food they ate, where it came from and how it was grown. This helped the success of the TV Chefs and Food programmes, and so many people began to desire to own a house with some land.

This to some extent created the growth in people owning a larger house in the country, with it, and the decline in farming incomes led on to the boom in conversion of barns and farms into residential use.

All of this led more and more people into owning a smallholding, and with it came the occasional Pig or Sheep, and of course the childrens pony.
These are the primary reasons why there is such a huge market for the Compact Tractor. A large percentage of buyers are those who who suffer from the 20th century problem of not enough leisure time (or energy after their working day) who hanker after a better quality of life.

Step into the frame the modern compact tractor, which, together with a few implements, results in self management of your property and much satisfaction at seeing the results.

Topping the grass and keeping the fields in good condition, Creating or rotovating the Vegetable Garden, maybe digging a pond, doing the fencing, moving logs or building materials, - the compact tractor became the unit of power that all smallholders turn to. What is essential to them is that it is reliable, is of a build quality that will give many many years of good service, and affordable. Many of our Smallholder customers were novices, some with extensive experience, from 2 acres to 50 acres, being a smallholder just isn't possible without a good compact tractor, - with a bad one or an unreliable one, - life becomes a nightmare.

Horse Owners & Stables

Every horse owner wants to spend more time riding and enjoying their horses and less time doing the laborious and hard chores. Once they've bought a compact tractor, the paddock topping is a once a fortnight job, the dung heap is wholly moved on a Saturday morning, replacing fence posts is only a couple of hours, and hay bales and bags of feed quickly and easily moved.
The 254 tractor will lift big round bales on a front end loader or the rear three point linkage. No other small tractor has the muscular capability to lift with ease 772kgs on the three point linkage, or 700kgs on the front end loader.

Riding and Equestrian Establishments

The horse owning community feature prominently in our customer list. From a lady with a horse or two on a couple of acres, through to large and small Riding Schools. Racing Stables and Studs at the other end of the spectrum sometimes with many horses all having the need for a compact tractor. Each have the same chores to address, Paddocks, Fields and Meadows to be Topped and Harrowed, a Menage to level, or the rapidly growing muck heap to move, or load into trailers. It is in these scenarios that the Mahindra Compact Tractor is the reliable tractor of choice of many, it makes laborious and heavy duties easily and quickly managed

Country Houses & Estate Owners

There are many owners of large country houses and estates who have a need for a mechanisation in order to carry out the laborious duties of land management. Not always is a conventional large tractor needed or desired.

This is where the compact tractor excels. It doesn't make a negative impact on good lawns, yet it excels over the small ride on tractors by being able to undertake literally acres of grass cutting in a single day. A Field Topper can keep meadows and paddocks in good condition, a front end loader can move heavy materials around quickly and easily, even felled timber can be cleared by towing - weights of over five tons can be pulled with ease.

Driveway holes and ruts need filling with fresh gravel ? - use the link box to lift, tip and smooth - have a log burner ? then chopping logs with a log splitter is fun, an hour gives enough for a month or so. Creating a vegetable plot ? - easy peasy, and you don't dig the ground yourself, - use a PTO powered rotovator, do all the heavy backbreaking jobs with your bottom firmly planted on the tractor seat, there's no point in having PTO power and hydraulic capability and doing the heavy physical stuff yourself.

This design for use concept continues throughout, and it is aimed at giving the user reserves of capability for all kinds of tasks. Previously unaddressed levels of comfort and 'user friendliness' - you don't get off after a days work feeling wrecked, you get off it feeling ready for going out in the evening, not falling asleep early in the chair.

When you put all this into a machine with unequalled levels of engineering excellence and build quality, you have a machine that will give many, many years of reliable commercial or domestic use within an affordable package.

Local Government, Institutions

We have supplied tractors to a variety of Institutions ranging from HM Prisons to all types of Religeous Communities, NHS Hospitals, Public Schools, National Trust, Local Authorities to Allotment Societies. The pre purchase evaluation process that such bodies go through prior to placing an order is exhaustive. For such enquirers, we have a wealth of detailed information and data that might be useful if they have to put a proposal to a Committee or if they are applying for Grants or Lottery Funding.

Builders, Landscapers and Commercial

Undoubtedly the real acid test of any compact tractor has to be in the hands of the commercial and professional user. They're the ones who give equipment real hard work from its arrival on site on an ongoing daily basis. If there are any failings in equipment, this is the scenario where it will be revealed. This is the testing area in terms of durability and reliability where the Mahindra pedigree really counts. Being one of the worlds largest tractor manufacturers, all their experience leads into build quality, engineering integrity and user comfort.

Having more familiarity with machinery and attachments, this group of users have no sentimentality, and little tolerance of any failings. Brutally all they want is reliability, economy, capability and a comfortable seat so they get off it at the end of the day and don’t feel like they’ve been beaten up ! This is the group who would be intolerant of any failings or downtime. This is the group, who, whilst they might tend to overload, make the tractor exert more, and regularly ask more of their tractor than the occasional user. They are also the group who look further into ease of routine maintainance and easy availability of spare parts because downtime means loss of earnings.

Creating stylish gardens out of neglected or virgin sites, digging footings and service trenches with a backhoe, moving a few hundred tons of soil and rubble with a front end loader, lifting pallets of heavy material on front or rear end pallet forks, powering a post driver, log shredder or PTO driven cement mixer, these are the tasks at which the Mahindra Compact Tractor excels. The versatility of these compact tractors with attachments is why so many choose the Mahindra rather than a small tracked mini diggers.

Boat Yards and Sailing Clubs

The role of a compact tractor in boatyards and marinas is rapidly being recognised. Their huge towing capability (5500kgs) and the front and rear boom connection for towing and pushing, makes them excellent workhorses in this situation. We also fit them with Marine Horns, Warning Bleepers, Rotating Yellow Beacons. Many Boatyards and Yachting Clubs have a Beach\River\Tidal launching base and for this often install double rear wheels in order to give better traction on soft mud and sand if a causeway or ramp isn't available.

Caravan and Camping Sites

Caravan and Camp sites throughout the UK and France use our tractors and equipment to keep their properties in tip top condition. The Mahindra tractor is the daily workhorse for maintainance and necessary duties. Grass cutting of large areas, clearing timber, moving caravans and mobile homes, creating utility areas and adventure play areas are all easily completed, not to mention towing of heavy trailers for waste clearance.

Many have weed sprayers, water bowsers, hedge cutters for the closed season work. Driveways and hard areas which have become rutted and holed, are easily and quickly resurfaced with gravel.

Industrial & Larger Commercial Users

Tractors are becoming more and more recognised for larger Industrial & Commercial applications.

Major Industrial and Household names use our tractors to tow multiple small trailers around their Central Distribution Sites.

Railway companies use them in environments where larger machines are unable to access competently.

Forestry and Woodland Management companies particularly use them because of their nimble surefootedness in all types of terrain. This is because they combine their towing capability which is in excess of 5000kgs with their four wheel drive and diff lock features.