Tractor category guide

Industrial tractors

Yellow-iron industrial tractors for construction, municipal, and yard duty. Compare specifications, understand the category range, and browse every recorded model.

Models
55
Manufacturers
13
Median power
Model years
1949–2007

Category overview

What defines a industrial tractor?

Yellow-iron industrial tractors for construction, municipal, and yard duty. This category contains 55 models from 13 manufacturers, making it one of the clearest ways to compare machines intended for similar work.

Use the ranges below as context, not hard limits. Tractor categories overlap, and differences in era, market, configuration, and manufacturer terminology can place otherwise similar models on different sides of a category boundary.

The most represented manufacturers include Caterpillar, John Deere, Allis Chalmers. Every model link below opens a complete data sheet with engine, transmission, hydraulics, PTO, dimensions, and weight where those values are recorded.

Category profile

Typical specifications

Amber marks the category median. The shaded segment covers the middle 80% of recorded models; the full rail shows the observed minimum and maximum.

Engine displacement

Median 284 ci
50th
36.8 ci1,246 ci

Middle 80%: 108929 ci · n = 53

Engine cylinders

Median 4 cyl
50th
2 cyl6 cyl

Middle 80%: 2.46 cyl · n = 55

Forward gears

Median 5
50th
2 54

Middle 80%: 38 · n = 43

Across the range

Representative models

A spread of recorded power levels gives a faster sense of the category than a single average.

Complete directory

All industrial tractor models

Filter by manufacturer or model name, then open any row for its full specification sheet.

ModelEngine PowerYears
Allis Chalmers HD11AG130 hp
Allis Chalmers HD11AG Series B126.5 hp
Allis Chalmers HD15
Allis Chalmers HD16A163 hp
Allis Chalmers HD20
Allis Chalmers HD9
Caterpillar 10-Ton
Caterpillar 5-Ton
Caterpillar D4
Caterpillar Diesel Fifty
Caterpillar Diesel Forty
Caterpillar Diesel Seventy-Five
Caterpillar Diesel Sixty
Caterpillar Diesel Sixty-Five
Caterpillar Fifteen
Caterpillar Fifty
Caterpillar R2
Caterpillar R5
Caterpillar RD4
Caterpillar RD7
Caterpillar RD8
Caterpillar Seventy-Five
Caterpillar Twenty-Eight
Challenger 45240 hp
Cletrac 35
Empire 8840 hp
Fendt Trisix500 hp
Ford 340046.7 hp1965–1975
Ford 350046 hp1965–1972
Ford 440056.5 hp1965–1975
Ford 450056.5 hp1965–1975
Ford 55059 hp1975–1978
Holt 10-Ton
International Harvester 244447 hp1967–1971
International Harvester 341443.4 hp1961–1968
International Harvester TD-14
International Harvester TD-650 hp1959–1969
JCB Fastrac 3200200 hp
John Deere 1010C40 hp1960–1964
John Deere 210LE78 hp1997–2007
John Deere 30043 hp1965–1973
John Deere 300B43 hp1974–1983
John Deere 301A46 hp1973–1981
John Deere 35046 hp1965–1970
John Deere 401B66 hp1974–1982
John Deere 4020101 hp1963–1972
John Deere 4401958–1960
John Deere 440C1958–1960
John Deere 450C70 hp1973–1982
John Deere MI1949–1952
Massey Ferguson 202 Work Bull40 hp1958–1967
Ventrac 2100C SSV18.5 hp
Ventrac 4000
Ventrac 412525 hp
Ventrac 4131 39.5112031 hp