Two-wheel tractor or walking tractor are generic terms understood in the US and in parts of Europe to represent a single-axle tractor, which is a tractor with one axle, self-powered and self-propelled, which can pull and power various farm implements such as a trailer, cultivator or harrow, a plough, or various seeders and harvesters. The operator usually walks behind it or rides the implement being towed. Similar terms are mistakenly applied to the household rotary tiller or power tiller; although these may be wheeled and/or self-propelled, they are not tailored for towing implements. A two-wheeled tractor specializes in pulling any of numerous types of implements, whereas rotary tillers specialize in soil tillage with their dedicated digging tools. This article concerns two-wheeled tractors as distinguished from such tillers.
A Rot-E-Taek hauling logs in Isan, Thailand. This is one of many types of two-wheel tractor.
Sifeng Model 12 HP 2WT with 5.6 tonnes of rice, Bangladesh
A Changzhou Hengfeng Two-wheel tractor ('Walking Tractor') in Hsipaw (Myanmar).
A 1952 Bungartz model U1D walk-behind, showing a moldboard plow attached.
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially tillage, and now many more. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide a source of power if the implement is mechanised.
The Ford N-series tractor helped revolutionize modern mechanized agriculture with its Ferguson three point hitch
A modern Ukrainian tractor XTZ-243K
This Hayes WHDX 70-170 6×6 ballast tractor is also a form of tractor, as are artillery tractors and the power units which pull semi-trucks
1882 Harrison Machine Works steam-powered traction engine