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I'm going to get laughed at.. but the first thing I thought of was lawn tractor! A lighter tractor would be less of an issue to wrangle about a garden, it would

by sgt101 10y ago

I'm going to get laughed at.. but the first thing I thought of was lawn tractor! A lighter tractor would be less of an issue to wrangle about a garden, it would consume less fuel shifting itself about, domestic ones get relatively few engine hour... a smaller engine might allow novel designs that get into tighter corners are simpler and cost less... You need ~10hp for a lawn tractor as is soooooo...

zodPod 10y ago
The only problem that I could see there is that you actually kind of need weight on a tractor. You take a 500lb tractor and take out the 150lb engine you're getting a lot closer to the weight of the driver and you're upping the possibility of tipping over significantly.
- serge2k 10y ago
  Couldn't you just adjust the driver/engine position to account for this?
  - zodPod 10y ago
    That's a good point!
- geon 10y ago
  From my experience with small quadbikes, I'd say that gives the driver more controll. On a light vehicle, you can just lean a bit to counter highly uneven terrain.
kbob 10y ago
Chainsaws and weed-whackers might be good applications.