Buying a tractor, like anything else in this where we have excessive information, comes with its own massive set of questions. One of the more important ones is definitely power. It has to be, right? Greater the power, greater the performance, more load the tractor can pull or carry, it will last longer, do more work, etc. So, is it a myth or the truth? Let’s find out!
First of all, to understand the utility of power, one has to consider how power is measured. While there are different units and standards of measurement across the board for different kinds of force applied, the kind of power that’s mostly the standard across almost all automobile vehicles would be Horsepower, i.e., HP. The technical definition of Horsepower would be “an imperial unit of power equal to 550 foot-pounds per second (about 750 watts)”. However, what that basically means is one should keep in mind here is that Horsepower is the standard in measuring the power of any automobile. So, is that it? Do I judge a tractor’s performance purely based on its HP? Well, not quite, and here’s why.
While HP as a standard for measurement does certainly have its merits, there is another way. A better way. A way that’s headlights by Digitrac. Digitrac is a tractor manufacturer that makes some of the tractor models in India. A trusted brand that offers its consumers a multitude of products to buy and services to avail. As far as it’s products are concerned, the power and performance of a 50HP tractor, or even a 60HP tractor, are all tractors for sale made available by Digitrac. All of this is offered along with many, many tractor attachments the brand provides to its customers when they come in to purchase their Digitrac tractor.
The way Digitrac measures the power in its tractors is something unique, new and perhaps even more useful. The term used is ‘PTO power’. PTO means ‘Power take-off’. This is utilizing an external power source to use something that might not have it’s own motor or a circuit to provide electric input. In case of tractors, the PTO power helps the tractor’s engine to power manual implements. The use? For one, less electricity is used since any additional add-on has the possibility of being powered by the engine itself. In addition, it literally measures the performance a tractor can deliver based on the sheer power of it’s engine. So all of these things finally translate to greater productivity at possibly lesser costs. These costs are not only reduced because of less power consumption in implements and other external add-ons, but also purchasing a tractor which might have lesser horsepower but with a higher degree of ‘PTO power’. This can more than make up for the difference when it comes to the final output and performance of the tractor on a daily basis, no matter the size of the agriculture field, the type of agriculture one might be doing, the frequency of work and traditional output associated with every single one of those factors.
So, is HP is all that matters? A we have already seen more than enough proof of, no, absolutely not. PTO Power is just as important, if not even more. All the benefits mentioned of measuring power with the PTO power metric makes you reconsider what power really means, especially when it comes to measuring performance, output, quantity, and even return on investments in tractors.
At the end, Digitrac once again leads
the towards creating a more affordable and versatile future for tractors in
India, especially when it comes to measuring pricing versus the features
offered in a tractor at any given point in time. Now this is a fact that can be
seen across all of Digitrac’s current range, no matter the horsepower a tractor
might be offering, there is always scope for more when it comes to farming with
Digitrac.
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