Talk:Two-wheel tractor

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In January of this year while searching for entry(s) on " Power tiller " I was redirected to http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=Qlik&lang=&q=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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]