You bought a tractor. Now what?

[Jolly]

For the first time homesteader/tractor owner on a limited budget, what are the most important implements to buy and in what order?

[wally]

Try and buy a tractor that's 4 wheel drive and has a bucket. After that it depends on what you need. I don't need a roto tiller as my garden is all raised bed. If you plan on a traditional garden it may be a benefit. Same with a plow. The other attachments really depend upon each person needs

[mamahen]

Decide what you might ever want to do with it. Make hay? Square bales or round? Plow gardens? Or whole fields? Brush hog?

Make sure you have enough horsepower for what you want to do. We’re on our 4th tractor because we keep upping the horsepower. We’re making rounds on hills in western PA.

We love our brush hog. And we just got a 5 foot rototiller a couple years ago. I love it!! So much quicker than the regular plow for my veggie and flower gardens.

Also power steering is nice. We buy tractors that are ummm, older? The first one did not have it.

[Tim Horton]

Here in the far north.... You buy a tractor with 4x4, a front end loader, rear tire chains, and a rear snow blower..

Anything else is an after thought..

[Bear Foot Farm]

That's the sort of thing one would know before knowing they needed a tractor.
They know the jobs they need to do and implements are pretty specialized.

[Ozarks Tom]

When I decided to take over the maintenance of our gravel road I bought a 1952 Ford 8n with a box blade and grading blade. Our little place here, about 4 acres, doesn't really need much, if any, tractor work. But, being preppers and thinking at some time we might want to expand the garden, we bought a 2 bottom plow and 5 point spring harrow. So far I've only used the plow and harrow to help a couple neighbors start gardens, but we've got them if we need them. It's amazing how inexpensive old tractor implements are. We bought both the plow & harrow for $250.

That old 8n just keeps running, and does everything we've asked of it.

[Jolly]

Whether or not the tractor came with a FEL, if you have a tractor, you have land. Usual implements would be a brush hog, box blade, plow or middle buster and either discs or tiller.

Maybe or maybe not in that order.