Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements & Antiques
Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements & Antiques

Author: C.H. Wendel

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-04-06

Total Pages: 1261

ISBN-13: 1440225338

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The evolution of the modern farm Finally, an encyclopedia reference work covering American farm implements and farm-related antiques from the 1800s through the 1940s. Through Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements & Antiques, follow the exciting and fascinating technological advances in farm equipment that made the United States the breadbasket to the world. Thoroughly researched, this guide features nearly 2,000 rare illustrations of farm equipment - the most poplar to the most obscure - from firms such as Deere & Co., J.I. Case, Allis-Chalmers, International Harvester and McCormick. Trace the history of: Alfalfa Grinders Balers Corn Binders Corn Harvesters Cultivators Elevators Drills Hay Tools Milking Machines Plows Saws Threshers Washing Machines Plus Much More! If you have an interest in farming and history, you'll love Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements & Antiques. Not only does it identify and illustrate farm equipment, but it explains how this equipment was used and reveals many of the trials and tribulations farmers faced in using it. Also includes current price ranges for thousands of implements and antiques.

300 Years of Farm Implements and Machinery, 1630-1930
300 Years of Farm Implements and Machinery, 1630-1930

Author: Ronald S. Barlow

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Take a journey through 300 years of implements, tools, and machinery from a single reference. Learn where each piece fits in farming history. Contains hundreds of original advertisements once featured in farm equipment catalogs.

Know Your Farm Machinery
Know Your Farm Machinery

Author: Chris Lockwood

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2016-09-19

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1910456632

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Know Your Farm Machinery follows on from the successful publication of Know Your Tractors, Know Your Combines and Know Your Classic Tractors.This pocket-sized book details 43 types of farm machinery most commonly seen on farms today including ploughs, cultivators, drills, spreaders and balers. A photograph of each machine is included.Chris Lockwood is a Suffolk based freelance agricultural journalist and producer of a long list of farming and farm machinery DVDs. This is his fourth book in the popular Know Your series.

Yesterday's Farm Tools and Equipment
Yesterday's Farm Tools and Equipment

Author: Michael B. Emery

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780764336034

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Hundreds of old farm tools and equipment are shown to be echoes of America's past, as farming remains vital to the economy today. Major chapters cover old haying, grains, tobacco, orchards, poultry, dairy, horses and mules in farm practices. Over 600 vintage and modern photos display the amazing variety of gadgets once necessary for farming. These objects are preserved in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the Landis Valley Museum, where they help to interpret American farm life of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. This book extends the reach of the museum's collections to interested people worldwide.

Build Your Own Farm Tools
Build Your Own Farm Tools

Author: Josh Volk

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1635863201

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Josh Volk, author of the best-selling Compact Farms, offers small-scale farmers an in-depth guide to building customized equipment that will save time and money and introduce much-needed efficiencies to their operations. Volk begins with the basics, such as setting up a workshop and understanding design principles, mechanical principles, and materials properties, then presents plans for making 15 tools suited to small-farm tasks and processes. Each project includes an explanation of the tool’s purpose and use, as well as the time commitment, skill level, and equipment required to build it. Projects range from the super-simple (requiring a half-day to build) to the more complex, and include how-to photographs and illustrations with variations for customizing the finished implement. Along with instructions for building items such as simple seedling benches, a mini barrel washer, a DIY germination chamber, and a rolling pack table, Volk addresses systems design for farm efficiency, including how to design an effective drip irrigation system and how to set up spreadsheets for collecting important planning, planting, and market data.

Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment
Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment

Author: Steve Hansen

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1612125271

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This Storey BASICS® title offers exactly what you need to know to keep your small farm’s equipment in good working order. Long-time farmers Steve and Ann Larkin Hansen cover everything from tractors and mowers to trimmers, tillers, ATVs, plows, discs, drills, planters, cultivators, mechanical rakes, and balers, showing you how to care for your equipment to prevent problems and how to diagnose and fix the things that do go wrong.

Farm Tools and Equipment Or Agriculture
Farm Tools and Equipment Or Agriculture

Author: Delacolonge

Publisher: Nipa

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9789385516221

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The book on 'Farm Tools and Equipment for Agriculture' is an attempt to put together all relevant information regarding the availability of various tools and equipment for land development, seed bed preparation, seeding, planting & transplanting, weeding & interculture, plant protection, harvesting and threshing, straw management, horticulture and forage crops. Information on each item contains a brief description, its uses and power source required. In this a list of manufacturers who have supported the book writing through photographs and drawings are appended in the last to facilitate the readers for easy location. The information provided is quite exhaustive. o Introduction o Land leveling equipment o Tillage equipment o Seeding, planting and transplanting equipment o Weeding and fertilizer application equipment o Plant protection equipment o Harvesting and threshing equipment o Forage harvesting equipment o Farm tools and equipment for horticulture, plantation and hill agriculture o Farm tools and equipment for dryland agriculture o Straw management equipment

Identifying Horse-Drawn Farm Implements
Identifying Horse-Drawn Farm Implements

Author: W. R. Runyan

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0595152465

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This guide to the identification of old farm equipment has been assembled to help those who have grown up since the horse-to-tractor farming conversion identify the myriad of horse-powered farm implements still to be found. The identification process is simple and quick, and is based on the presence or absence of such readily recognizable features as wheels and teeth. Photographs and identifying features of essentially all of the types of equipment used in the United States during the early part of the twentieth century are included.

Ford Tractor Implements
Ford Tractor Implements

Author: Chester Peterson Rod Beemer

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781610606332

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Get the whole story behind the most popular farm implement sytem of all time, beginning with Henry Ford's and Harry Ferguson's shared dream of making the farmer's job less strenuous and more efficient. Modern color photos of restored equipment, archival photography, and period advertisements show the plows, cultivators, planters, middlebusters, mowers, rakes, rotary hoes weeders, dozers, scoops, loaders and other implements that revolutionized the agricultural industry. Covered in detail are Ferguson's creation of the ingenius three-point attachment system; the Sherman brothers, pivotal figures who brought Ferguson together with Ford's deep pockets; and the infamous handshake agreement that made Ferguson implements standard equipment on Ford tractors.