Agricultural tractors - Germany: books - history (2/2)

Deutschlands Landmaschinen

In this chronicle with around 500 illustrations, Joachim M. Köstnick provides an overview of the highlights from over a hundred years of agricultural machinery construction in Germany.
Not only are the tractors, combine harvesters, diggers and harvesting machines, harvesters and farm loaders from Germany, Austria and Switzerland shown - the author also offers interesting insights into the technology and function of these indispensable machines.

He also traces the rapid technical development from the Bulldog to the modern high-tech machine with satellite-controlled navigation systems. Another focus is on special tractors for viticulture.

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Author:	Joachim M. Köstnick
Details:	224 pages, 31.5 x 23.5 x 1.9 cm / 12.4 x 9.25 x 0.75 in, hardback
Illustrations:	500 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2022)
ISBN:	9783613044449

Enzyklopädie Deutscher Landmaschinen

After the turn of the century, there was a boom in agricultural machinery construction in Germany: from ploughs to mowers, from harrows to milking machines - countless companies offered solutions for every conceivable purpose.
When the market finally consolidated, only companies remained that occupied niche areas, were taken over by larger manufacturers or merged.
With this volume, Klaus Dreyer and Marco Homrighausen present a comprehensive, complete encyclopedia of German agricultural machinery manufacturers who have made farmers' lives easier since the beginning of mechanization.

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Author:	Marco Homrighausen, Klaus Dreyer
Details:	368 pages, 26.5 x 23 cm / 10.4 x 9.1 in, hardback
Illustrations:	700 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2020)
ISBN:	9783613042049

Eilschlepper und Strassenzugmaschinen - 1903-1956 (Typenkompass)

One advantage of road tractors is that they do not have to stand still for long periods of time because they do not have to wait for their load to be unloaded. Their counterpart in agriculture was so-called express tractors, which could drive along the roads at a higher speed than normal tractors to transport their load.

In this Typenkompass, Wolfgang Gebhardt presents the most important express tractors and road tractors in Germany since 1903: the historical arc is spanned from the first road tractor to the first Lanz traffic (express) bulldogs in 1923 to the year 1956, when the Unimog dominated the remaining market.

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Author:	Wolfgang H. Gebhardt
Details:	128 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm / 8.1 x 5.5 in, paperback
Illustrations:	125 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Motorbuch Verlag (D, 2019)
Series:	Typenkompass
ISBN:	9783613041776

Geräteträger & Tragschlepper für die Landwirtschaft

As early as the mid-1930s, there were engineers who envisioned a truly multi-purpose machine that would make it possible to combine tractor and implement into one unit.
The full mechanization of small and medium-sized farms in particular and the cultivation and maintenance work on the land of larger farms should be easier, faster and more intensive. This is how implement carriers and tractors were developed.

Michael Bach tells, explains and illustrates the history of this exciting era of agricultural technology and reviews it all: Primus Packesel, Fendt GT, Lanz Alldog, Gutbrod Farmax, Ruhrstahl Landmaschine, Unitrak, Eicher Kombi, Ritscher Multitrak, Wesseler Ackermeister and all the others.

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Author:	Michael Bach
Details:	128 pages, 28 x 21 cm / 11 x 8.25 in, hardback
Illustrations:	300 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2020)
ISBN:	9783861337089

Ladewagen für die Landwirtschaft - Die 1960er bis 1980er Jahre

It has replaced the good old ladder wagon: the loading wagon, which was presented by its inventor Ernst Weichel in 1960 at the DLG exhibition in Cologne. During the 1960s, the loading wagon developed into an indispensable harvesting machine that significantly relieved the burden on people in agriculture.

Oliver Aust traces the history of the loading wagon from its invention to the 1980s using the main manufacturers: Mengele, Kemper, Bergmann, Eicher, Pöttinger, Strautmann, Bucher and Hagedorn. Technical data is presented as well as a wealth of illustrations and brochure extracts.

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Author:	Oliver Aust
Details:	160 pages, 28 x 21 cm / 11 x 8.25 in, hardback
Illustrations:	390 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2014)
ISBN:	9783861337096

Landwirtschaftliche Anbaugeräte für Traktoren

The tractor with the power take-off shaft became an irreplaceable helper in agriculture as a carrier of working equipment. Well-thought-out equipment systems from the early days up to the 1970s, which made soil cultivation and harvesting extremely easy, are explained here in terms of their functionality and illustrated in detail.

Contents: Ploughs, tillers, cultivators, harrows, field rollers, fertilizer spreaders, sprayers, seed drills, star hole machines, potato planters, hoeing machines, multi-purpose machines, earth drills, mounted mowers, reaper-binders, hay harvesters, potato harvesters, sugar beet harvesters, straw balers, forage choppers, loading equipment.

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Author:	Udo Bols
Details:	148 pages, 28 x 21 cm / 11 x 8.25 in, hardback
Illustrations:	390 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2007)
ISBN:	9783861334415

Landwirtschaftliche Fahrzeuge beim Gülle- und Mistfahren

Not only can you see them, you can also smell them, the manure spreaders and slurry vehicles that supply the fields with fertiliser before sowing and after harvesting.
The author has observed and documented the highly technical systems at work. He shows three-axle wagons with two steered axles, hydraulically folding slurry distributors, 8 x 8 drives, electro-hydraulic spreading rate regulation and much more.

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Author:	Michael Schauer
Details:	112 pages, 28 x 21 cm / 11 x 8.25 in, hardback
Illustrations:	275 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2008)
ISBN:	9783861334750

Raupenschlepper - Prospekte, Grafiken, Bilder

In this book, the history and technology of crawler and chain tractors built in Germany are presented using selected original brochures, graphics and pictures, including classics from the companies Hanomag, Deutz, Kaelble, Lanz, Linke-Hoffmann-Busch, Stock, Famo, Schanzlin, Blank and others.

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Author:	Wolfgang Wagner
Details:	144 pages, 28 x 21 cm / 11 x 8.25 in, hardback
Illustrations:	numerous b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2001)
ISBN:	9783861332787