John deere gator year identification series#
The Traditional Series is the second generation of the original Gator, designed for medium-duty work. The M-Gator is a militarized variant used by the U.S. The Turf Gator is specially designed to serve golf courses. It also offers several specialty vehicles including the more off-road-oriented Trail Gator, which is olive in color to better serve recreational and sporting uses. They are the Traditional Series, the High Performance (HPX) Series, the Compact Series, and the XUV Series. Within the Gator family of vehicles, John Deere produces several lines. The overall design of the first and second all-material transporters (AMTs) were simple, easy to maintain, and easy to fix on site. The size of the AMT was designed to easily be loaded into the back of a pickup truck to be transported to various remote and/or hard to get to location that conventional means such as towing a trailer would prove dangerous or troublesome. The recommended maximum payload capacity is 600 lb (272 kg). Many third-party attachments are available for the Gator, including snow plows, sanders, and gun racks. Thus, they require no clutch or gear shifts to operate. They use a continuously variable transmission employing a belt and a conical pulley system. The Gator vehicles use small but powerful 341 cc (0.341 L) four-stroke engines found in lawn mowers, or an optional diesel engine that is also found in some Deere mowers and utility tractors.