The right kit for your acres
The right kit for your acres. Independent UK guides and calculators for smallholdings, paddocks and woodland plots: what size tractor you need, whether a quad will do, which implements fit, and what to buy first. Acres alongside hectares, every sum shown, every figure yours to change.
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Getting started
Smallholding kit planner
Example: A compact or sub-compact tractor with a three-point linkage and PTO, for 5 acres (2.02 ha)
Smallholding starter kit list
Example: 5 to buy first, 4 to hire or borrow first, 5 for later, for 5 acres (2.02 ha)
Tractors and implements
Compact tractor size calculator
Example: A tractor with at least 18 hp at the PTO and a Category 1 linkage, lifting at least 250 kg on the rear linkage
Implement matcher
Example: Fits on the makers' figures (4 checks)
Guides by topic
Getting started
Starting a smallholding: the kit to buy first, what to hire, and a planner that turns your acres and jobs into a kit list.
Tractors and implements
Compact and sub-compact tractors, toppers, linkage and PTO: size a tractor by the implements you'll run, using makers' figures.
Ground work and growing
Rotavators, tillers, harrows and rollers for veg plots and paddocks, picked by plot size and soil.
Logs, chippers and woodland
Log splitters, wood chippers and woodland kit: tonnage, power and safety, with the sums shown.
Grass, brushcutters and toppers
Brushcutters, strimmers, toppers and flails for paddocks, orchards and rough ground.
Quads, UTVs and trailers
Quad or UTV, towed kit and trailers for a smallholding, with HSE safety guidance and GOV.UK road and towing rules.
Fencing and livestock kit
Stock fencing, posts, electric fencing and gates for paddocks, worked out from your field and your animals.
Safety, road and fuel rules
Machinery safety on a smallholding, PTO and children around kit, road use and fuel rules, each linked to HSE or GOV.UK.
Seasonal jobs
What to do with your land and kit through the year: spring land work, autumn logs and winter storage.
Glossary
Tractor and smallholding machinery terms explained: PTO hp, linkage categories, toppers, flails, UTVs and more.
Specs, not sales talk
Machine specs come from the maker's UK spec sheet, safety guidance from HSE, and road and towing rules from GOV.UK, each with the date we checked it. Prices come from you. We haven't tested these machines: we compare published specs and official guidance. See how we calculate.