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depends what u want for a tractor. it dont take much of a tractor to pull a mower. as for size 30 h.p. is plenty. or are u talking about a 9' haybine?
 
30/40 horse is plenty adequet. Of which there are "hundreds" of choices.However,25 horse will most likly pull it jut fine. I remember pulling a 7' balance head with a Farmall H. This was at 8000ft elevation in HEAVY thick mountain grass.You haven't cut 'hay' till you've cut that stuff.
 
When I was still under 25 or 30 a lot of cycle bar mowers were used with twenty some HP tractors. Mowed a lot before that with a Furguson 40 and 7 foot mower wide open in second high range myself.
 
The sickle bar mower designed for the 10hp Cub was a 5-footer so you can see that they don't take much power to run. (And I happen to have a 1950 Cub with a 5' mower and know that the combination works well.) I'd think that just about any tractor physically large enough to handle the offset weight and side draft of a 9-foot mower bar should have plenty of power to run it. As others have suggested anything from 25-30 hp on up would be fine assuming we're talking about an actual farm tractor (i.e. big and heavy relative to the engine's power) and not a 2500 lb compact utility.
 
You will want a tractor with a live or independent PTO,otherwise every time you push the clutch pedal down the PTO will stop.
 
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