Farm Machinery: Books - History and Models

Farm Machinery (6th Edition)

Farm Machinery is the standard book on the current theory and practice of farm mechanisation for students and farmers. First published in 1979, this new sixth edition incorporates much new text together with 280 new colour photographs illustrating the steady flow of developments in farm mechanisation that have taken place over the past decade.
Recent advances in computer technology and satellite field mapping are included and new content enriches the earlier material dealing with the working principles and operation of the vast array of the somewhat less sophisticated farm tractors and machines still in use on British farms.

There are chapters on tractors, cultivation and drilling equipment, crop care and harvest machinery. Further chapters deal with farmyard and estate maintenance equipment, mechanical handlers, dairy equipment, irrigation farm power and the farm workshop.
References are made to the UK Health & Safety at Work Act and other safety regulations.

These summarise their main requirements, but they should only be taken as a guide. Brian Bell has had a long involvement with farm machinery that started with an apprenticeship in a tractor dealership.
After a teaching career on farm machinery at Otley College in Suffolk he retired as Vice Principal in 1993 when he was awarded the MBE for services to agriculture.

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Legendäre Landmaschinen aus aller Welt

Agricultural machinery has a tremendous fascination for many people, young and old alike, according to the motto: the bigger, the better. They have long since outgrown their primitive beginnings, as high-tech has now taken hold, for example in the form of satellite-controlled navigation systems.

Joachim M. Köstnick looks after all the important agricultural machines that have been used around the world over the last hundred years to cultivate fields and extract ever higher yields from arable land. From feed mixers to balers, insights into technology and function are offered.

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Land- und Forstmaschinen aus aller Welt

Agricultural machinery has a huge attraction for many people, young and old alike, according to the motto: the bigger, the better. And with this great illustrated book, things are getting even more exciting: Joachim M. Köstnick continues the success story of his bestsellers and, in addition to agricultural machinery, also focuses on the fascinating species of forestry machinery.

Regardless of whether it is large equipment from Europe, India, China, Russia or the USA - well over 500 images show and describe the most impressive tractors, combine harvesters, diggers and harvesting machines, harvester units, forwarders and tree processors from all over the world.

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