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Farm Machinery / Brian Bell and Martin Rickatson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Brian, author.
- Rickatson, Martin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural machinery--Great Britain.
- Agricultural machinery.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (472 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, England : 5M Publishing Limited, 2010.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface to Sixth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Farm Tractors
- Types of tractor
- Controls and instruments
- Using tractors on the road
- Safe driving and implement hitching
- 2 Tractor Engines
- The four-stroke engine
- The diesel fuel system
- Turbochargers
- Air cleaners
- Engine lubrication
- Cooling systems
- 3 Tractor Electrical Systems
- The battery
- Charging systems
- Starting systems
- Lights and fuses
- 4 Tractor Transmission Systems
- Clutch
- Gearboxes
- Rear axle
- Differential
- Final drive
- Four-wheel drive
- Power take-off
- Brakes
- Lubrication
- 5 Tractor Hydraulic Systems
- Principles of hydraulics
- Tractor hydraulic circuits
- Control systems
- Auxiliary services
- Hydraulic linkages
- 6 Wheels, Tracks and Steering
- Wheels and tyres
- Wheel track settings
- Tracks
- Steering
- 7 Tractor Cabs
- Cab suspension
- Tractor and engine management systems
- Routine tractor maintenance
- 8 Small Engines
- Single-cylinder two- and four-stroke petrol engines
- Fuel systems
- The air cleaner
- Maintenance
- Cooling
- Ignition systems
- Starters
- 9 Ploughs
- Types of plough
- Reversible ploughing
- Plough components
- Types of plough body
- Controls and adjustments
- Ploughing systems
- 10 Cultivation Machinery
- Subsoilers
- Mole ploughs
- Chisel ploughs
- Cultivators
- Power-driven harrows and cultivators
- Rotary cultivators
- Disc harrows
- Spike tooth and chain harrows
- Rolls
- Furrow presses
- Toolbars
- Weeders and straw harrows
- 11 Drills
- Grain drills
- Cultivator and drill combinations
- Strip-till drills
- Direct drills
- Mechanical and pneumatic feed mechanisms
- Using drills
- Calibration
- Precision drill seeder units
- 12 Manure and Fertiliser Distribution Machinery.
- Farmyard manure spreaders
- Slurry spreaders
- Fertiliser broadcasters
- Full-width distributors
- 13 Ground Crop Sprayers
- Self-propelled sprayers
- Trailed sprayers
- Mounted sprayers
- The parts of a sprayer
- The sprayer circuit
- Working adjustments
- Sleeve boom sprayers
- Twin-fluid nozzle sprayers
- Band sprayers
- Using sprayers
- Spraying
- Sprayer maintenance
- Safety when spraying
- Granular applicators
- Weed wipers
- 14 Haymaking Machinery
- Mowers
- Rotary mowers
- Drum mowers
- Disc mowers
- Flail mowers
- Mower conditioners
- Swath treatment machinery
- 15 Silage Making Machinery
- Self-propelled and trailed forage harvesters
- Forage wagons
- Buckrakes
- Silage handling and storage
- 16 Balers
- Big round balers
- Big square balers
- Small square balers
- Using balers
- Bale handling equipment
- Bale wrappers
- 17 Combine Harvesters
- Crop flow
- Attachments
- Yield mapping
- Storage
- Using combine harvesters
- Threshing problems
- Grain strippers
- 18 Root Crop Machinery
- Sugar beet harvesters
- Cleaner loaders
- Potato planting machinery
- Potato harvesting machinery
- Potato harvesters
- 19 Mechanical Handling
- Tractor front-end loaders
- Self-propelled materials handlers
- Safe use of mechanical handling equipment
- ATVs
- Trailers
- 20 Farmyard and Estate Machinery
- Grain drying and storage
- Grain conveyors
- Mills and mixers
- Dairy equipment
- Electric fencers
- Chain saws
- Hedge cutt ers
- Ditchers
- Irrigation
- 21 Farm Power
- Internal combustion engines
- Electricity on the farm
- The safe use of electricity
- Gas and oil heating
- Transmission of power
- 22 The Farm Workshop
- Workshop hand tools
- Workshop power tools
- Workshop materials.
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-910456-23-3
- OCLC:
- 1154566862
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