Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery: Practical Hints For Handymen
A turn-of-the-20th-century classic

 This comprehensive and classic text, originally published in the early 1900s to assist farmers and farm mechanics instructors, was the first book to deal exclusively with the operation, care, and repair of farm machines. Divided into six distinctive sections ranging from the preparation of the seed bed to harvesting, The Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machineryprovides detailed information and instructions on how to use and care for dozens of different machines, including plows, harrows, tillers, spreaders, cultivators, sowers, diggers, harvesters, pickers, presses, mowers, binders, planters, pulverizers, loaders, drills, listers, and rotary hoes.
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Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery: Practical Hints For Handymen
A turn-of-the-20th-century classic

 This comprehensive and classic text, originally published in the early 1900s to assist farmers and farm mechanics instructors, was the first book to deal exclusively with the operation, care, and repair of farm machines. Divided into six distinctive sections ranging from the preparation of the seed bed to harvesting, The Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machineryprovides detailed information and instructions on how to use and care for dozens of different machines, including plows, harrows, tillers, spreaders, cultivators, sowers, diggers, harvesters, pickers, presses, mowers, binders, planters, pulverizers, loaders, drills, listers, and rotary hoes.
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Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery: Practical Hints For Handymen

Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery: Practical Hints For Handymen

by John Deere
Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery: Practical Hints For Handymen

Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery: Practical Hints For Handymen

by John Deere

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A turn-of-the-20th-century classic

 This comprehensive and classic text, originally published in the early 1900s to assist farmers and farm mechanics instructors, was the first book to deal exclusively with the operation, care, and repair of farm machines. Divided into six distinctive sections ranging from the preparation of the seed bed to harvesting, The Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machineryprovides detailed information and instructions on how to use and care for dozens of different machines, including plows, harrows, tillers, spreaders, cultivators, sowers, diggers, harvesters, pickers, presses, mowers, binders, planters, pulverizers, loaders, drills, listers, and rotary hoes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781599214610
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date: 12/16/2008
Edition description: 2nd Edition
Pages: 246
Product dimensions: 6.02(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

John Deere (1804–1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Part One – Preparation of the Seed Bed

Chapter 1: Plows... p. 2

Plow Bottoms... p. 2

Walking Plows... p. 15

Riding Plows... p. 18

Tractor Plows... p. 29

Disk Plows... p. 37

Wheatland Implements... p. 42

Chapter 2: Disk Harrows... p. 46

Chapter 3: Harrows, Pulverizers, Field Cultivators... p. 51

Part Two – Planting

Chapter 4: Grain Drills... p. 55

Chapter 5: Corn Planters... p. 65

Chapter 6: Cotton and Corn Planters... p. 74

Chapter 7: Listers... p. 79

Chapter 8: Potato Planters... p. 85

Part Three – Cultivating

Chapter 9: Rotary Hoes... p. 90

Chapter 10: Shovel Cultivators... p. 93

Tractor Cultivators... p. 100

Chapter 11: Disk Cultivators... p. 103

Chapter 12: Listed Crop Cultivators... p. 105

Part Four – Harvesting

Chapter 13: Grain Binders... p. 110

Chapter 14: Combine Harvesters... p. 129

Chapter 15: Corn Binders... p. 139

Chapter 16: Ensilage Harvesters... p. 148

Chapter 17: Corn Pickers... p. 152

Chapter 18: Potato Diggers... p. 159

Chapter 19: Mowers... p. 161

Tractor Mowers... p. 174

Chapter 20: Hay Rakes, Loaders, and Presses... p. 177

Part Five – Power on the Farm

Chapter 21: Tractors... p. 191

General Purpose Tractors... p. 207

Standard Tread Tractors... p. 216

Chapter 22: Farm Engines... p. 218

Part Six – Soil Fertility

Chapter 23: Manure Spreaders... p. 224

Chapter 24: Lime and Fertilizer Sowers... p. 231

Appendix of Useful Information... p. 233







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