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Section 9 (3) states the minimum age for driving a tractor is 16, where the tractor is less than 2.45 metres wide, and “is driven either—
(i) without a trailer attached to it, or
(ii) with a trailer which has an overall width not exceeding 2.45 metres and is either a two-wheeled or close-coupled four-wheeled trailer,”. Otherwise, the minimum age is 17.

Schedule 2: Identifies tractors as category F licences and mowing machines or pedestrian-controlled vehicles as category K licences.

“A mowing machine is a specialist ride-on grass-cutting vehicle with permanent cutting equipment. You must be 16 to use this type of vehicle.”
(https://www.gov.uk/learning-to-drive-a-tractor-or-specialist-vehicle/rules-for-test-vehicles