Know Your Farm Machinery E-Book

Chris Lockwood

• Herausgeber: Old Pond Books
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 42

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

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.

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Know Your Farm Machinery

Chris Lockwood

Contents

Title PageAcknowledgementsForewordTractorPloughSubsoilerMole drainerCultivatorOne-pass cultivatorSpring tine cultivatorSeedbed combination cultivatorPower harrowRotary cultivatorDisc harrowCultivator pressRollsBed formerDe-stonerSeed drillPrecision drillPotato planterInter-row hoeSprayerFertiliser spreaderManure spreaderSlurry tankerIrrigatorMowerTedderRakeForage harvesterTopperChain harrowConventional balerRound balerBig balerBale wrapperFeeder-bedderFeeder wagonCombine harvesterPotato harvesterSugar beet harvesterFront-end loaderTelehandlerTipping trailerFlatbed trailerHedge cutterCopyright

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank everyone who has helped in producing this book.

Front cover:

An impressive Case IH Quadtrac 580 working with a 6-metre wide Väderstad Top Down one-pass cultivator.

Title page:

A self-propelled SAM Vision sprayer working in a crop of spring beans.

Picture credits:

FenDrover Media: Page 11

Teagle Machinery Ltd: Page 35

All other photographs are from own collection.

Author’s Note

Manufacturers’ names are included for identification purposes only.

All information and technical specifications are taken from manufacturers’ own sales literature, given in good faith and should only be used as a guide. The author cannot be held responsible for any errors.

Horsepower figures are given, wherever possible, as rated engine power.

Foreword

This book aims to show a representative sample of some of the most widely seen implements and machines used today on arable, mixed and livestock farms in Britain. Obviously this pocketbook cannot be expected to cover every single piece of specialist machinery used on every farm, so I have tried to cover most of the mainstream tackle used in modern agriculture.

In addition, there are many variations produced of the same implement, with different manufacturers preferring their own approach and design features. Slightly different versions are often preferred in different areas of the country and for varying conditions, so where possible I have tried to show an example of the most popular design or type for each machine.

Farm machinery is constantly evolving and becoming more advanced, and some of the machines shown are the latest developments, but there are also many simple and reliable tools in regular use in modern agriculture, so these have been included as well.

Chris Lockwood, Suffolk, 2016

Tractor

Basic function:

Pulling and powering farm machinery.

Starting with the basics: the tractor is the prime mover on almost every farm in Britain and is used to pull or provide power for most other farm machinery. The hydraulic three-point linkage, now mostly electronically controlled, is used to carry mounted implements, with a PTO-shaft and spool valves providing auxiliary power.

This JCB Fastrac 8310 is the largest model in the British-built JCB Fastrac range. Extremely versatile, it combines lugging ability with a high specification and fast road speeds of up to 70 kph. It is powered by a 306 hp engine which drives through an infinitely variable transmission.

There are a huge variety of different sizes and types of tractor, and these are covered in more detail in Know Your Tractors and Know Your Classic Tractors.

Plough

Basic function:

Inverting soil to bury weeds and residue from the previous crop, exposing fresh clean soil for a new crop.

Like the vast majority of ploughs now found on British farms, this six-furrow Kverneland is a reversible plough with two sets of bodies – right- and left-handed. This allows work to be carried out up and down, with the plough turned over at each end of the field allowing the alternate set of bodies to be used for the return pass.

Fully-mounted ploughs like this one, with up to seven furrows, are most popular, but semi-mounted ploughs and articulated ploughs with up to 16 furrows are used on larger farms.

When in work the tractor usually runs at an angle, with the wheels on one side in the previous furrow, but on-land ploughing as demonstrated here with all wheels, or tracks, running on unploughed land is becoming more common. This helps to minimise soil compaction and allows wider tyres to be used which wouldn’t fit in the furrow.

Subsoiler

Basic function:

Loosening of soil at depth to remove compaction and break up soil pans.