Talk:Two-wheel tractor

In January of this year while searching for entry(s) on " Power tiller " I was redirected to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_tiller a page actually on "rotary tillers" both two and 4-whgeel tractor. Power tiller can be generic term also for rotary tiller as I say in the article is commonly understood as the garden tiller / rototiller of the Craftsman/Sears hobby gardener variety.

But this understanding does capture the Troy Built's cousin, the larger horse power, two-wheel, self-propelled tractor's importance in production many Asian countries' production agriculture and rural economies. They prevail not only in east Asia as that page noted, but also in south Asia Bangladesh has 350,000, Sri LAnka 120,000 India 100,000. China's numbers could approach 5M, Thailand 3 M, INdonesia and Philippines over 100,000. and more recently parts of Africa and even in parts of Europe. These are farm power tillers not only rotovate but have mold board and disc plows, seeder (even zero till), reaper harvesters, pull 2 ton plus trailer loads, all the chores done by large tractors. Here, we use the term 2-wheel tractor here in our programs/reports and research papers in south Asia to denote these differences, but nearly all farmers in this area refer to them in broken English as power tillers. So I would be willing to change the title of the page if there were strong arguments against this term. The history of Japanese power tillers comes from a friend's email, Yoshisuke Kishida, editor of the journal Agricultural Machinery Asia. I am trying to contact him to get how I should cite this information SEJustice 12:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Having just seen the edit in the article "It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into rotary tiller." I again argue that the two-wheel tractor is just that a tractor and a rotary tiller is technically simply a tractor attachment.SEJustice 12:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree that a two-wheel tractor is just a tractor and that a rotary tiller is an implement that can be attached to a tractor. Some rotary tillers are however self-propelled with no option of detaching the tiller from the tractor portion. The two articles should not be merged.Gregorydavid 07:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

For years I have been wanting to comment on 'C' Class - or low importance- classification given this article. With Bangladesh and India approaching 1 M 2WTs each,  4 M in Thailand, .5 in each Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam and Sri Lanka NEpal at 50 K each and all  of those markets still growing albetit slowing growth. Then say still 10 million in China down from 15 M 10 years ago. Significant numbers still in Korea and JApan. And Indonesia Malaysia and many other countries not even counting their numbers( and Africa is getting set to grow now) I say 20 M 2WT providing tillage, harvesting, threshing transportation  services to say on conservative average 10 farmers per tractor. Do the math and tell me that this particular technology does not deserve much more respect and an A rating....SEJustice  SEJustice (talk) 11:01, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Tractors are multi purpose
I disagree with the premise that an undetachable rotary tiller is a two wheel tractor. That should be a separate category of small engine tillers. A tractor, two wheel or otherwise runs a variety of attachments. For an example of a two wheel tractor, see this - which is glaringly missing from the article:

http://www.bcs-america.com/product.cqs

76.179.96.160 (talk) 00:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC) Mike Leach - and yes, i own one.
 * i agree, the page makes valiant attempts at disambig, but as a writer and a power tiller owner, the distinction isn't made clear on this page or touched on AT ALL on the power tiller wp. I will attempt to make clear that a 2 wheel tractor has detachable implements etc, on both pages. 66.220.124.56 (talk) 06:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Merge from Kuliglig under Philippines section


 * support Merge with redirect. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:52, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support makes sense. Rich Farmbrough, 15:49, 27 October 2012 (UTC).


 * Support merge of all info to this article. Most of the Kuliglig info are supported by cites anyways.-- Lenticel ( talk ) 00:42, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. This being the English Wikipedia, it would only be appropriate. &mdash; •KvЯt GviЯnЭlБ•  Speak!  06:28, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support  It is said by folks that Intl Rice Res Institute (IRRI) developed two wheel tractors in early 1970s based on earlier work by the Thais, reported in the 2WT article. These IRRI tractors were then modified in various Phill factories and by the 1980s numbered in 10s of 1000s. Anyway should be merged under the Early history of two-wheel tractors in Asia section User:SEJustice  —Preceding undated comment added 14:32, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Merge, certainly. And add the names used in various countries. For instance, in Myanmar they're called trawlargyi. January 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avanyu (talk • contribs) 16:36, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

ID request
Could you please tell me if this is a two-wheel tractor? Thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:24, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, pretty typical example of one. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:34, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you kindly. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:06, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Remove French/German non-equivalent terms and links to French & German pages for different concept
The introductory paragraph says that a two-wheel tractor is a single-axle tractor which can pull and power various farm implements, and that similar terms are mistakenly applied to the household rotary tiller of power tiller, which are not tailored for towing implements. So this article is about two-wheel tractors, and not about rotary tillers. At the very beginning of the first paragraph the English terms for two-wheel tractor are followed by the French and German terms for rotary tiller, and the links to other languages link to the French and German pages for rotary tillers. These terms and links should be removed, as they refer to a different concept. Timothy Cooper (talk) 13:52, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

USA - Beeman (missing year)
http://web.archive.org/web/20030409132427/http://web.umr.edu/~markb/farming.htmlNotPedanticReally (talk) 00:07, 14 September 2021 (UTC)