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Performance and Battery Life Overview

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I'm sending back the electric tractor here's why

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The reviewer demonstrates opening the hood of the Solectrac to reveal the battery pack. He explains that the tractor is battery-powered and can operate for about 4 hours at full power on one charge. He emphasizes that this is not a tractor for extensive farming like planting 40 acres of corn, but rather for smaller tasks suitable for a yard, orchard, or homestead. He highlights that the only fluid requiring changes is hydraulic fluid, simplifying maintenance compared to diesel or gasoline tractors.

Goal: The reviewer details the performance of the Solectrac, stating it can run for approximately 4 hours at full power on a single charge and clarifies its intended use as a yard, orchard, or homesteader's tractor rather than for large-scale row crops.

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  • Solectrac Electric Tractor

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you're going to plant 4 acres of corn with this is a yard tractor this is an orchard tractor this is a homesteaders tractor this is for the person who doesn't want to change the oil and the only oil that you have to change in this is the hydraulic fluid so pretty cool pretty interesting instead of having a diesel motor or gasoline motor just has an electric motor that's all it really is to say about it I've ran this tractor successfully in mode at full power for 4 hours straight without any issues I've parked it in the pasture and fed hay bales to my cows and will continue to do so until they come back and get the tractor and they're going to come back sometime I think this month to pick it up basically my deal with this tractor was they sent it out here for me to test it for me to try it to really do proof of concept if it can work for a small farm like ours and this is 150 acre first generation Farm we've got 50 cows about I don't know 15 chickens something like that and it has been good it's been a great little machine it will pick up a round hay bale and it will lift it up high enough to dump it over and feed the cow so that's cool it's a 25 horsepower equivalent uh tractor it has a pretty wide footprint in other words the rear and front industrial tires have a pretty wide footprint so it's a it doesn't give a lot of impact on the land in other words it's not trying to bury itself up in the mud I did get it stuck in the mud

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