AbstractThe lugged wheel as tractive tools in Indonesian agriculture mainly used for land preparation, i.e. hand tractor operations. There are basic needs to develop narrow lugged wheel designed for post-planting application that has ability for inter-row paddy field operation. The aim of present study was to determine tractive performance of narrow lugged wheel. The tested wheel has 85.5 cm of outer diameter and 14 ×8 cm of lug dimension, with three combinations of each lug spacing and lug angle. The experiment was conducted on an actual paddy field and some tractive performances were determined. The results indicate that tractive power output reached a peak at about 12 – 30 % of wheel slip, depending on the lug angle and lug spacing. The ...