Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machinery: Practical Hints For Handymen [Paperback]

A turn-of-the-20th-century classic

 This comprehensive and classic text, originally published in the early 1900s to assist farmers and farm mechanics instructors, was the first book to deal exclusively with the operation, care, and repair of farm machines. Divided into six distinctive sections ranging from the preparation of the seed bed to harvesting,The Operation, Care, and Repair of Farm Machineryprovides detailed information and instructions on how to use and care for dozens of different machines, including plows, harrows, tillers, spreaders, cultivators, sowers, diggers, harvesters, pickers, presses, mowers, binders, planters, pulverizers, loaders, drills, listers, and rotary hoes.John Deere(1804–1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world.Table of Contents

Part One – Preparation of the Seed Bed

Chapter 1: Plows… p. 2

Plow Bottoms… p. 2

Walking Plows… p. 15

Riding Plows… p. 18

Tractor Plows… p. 29

Disk Plows… p. 37

Wheatland Implements… p. 42

Chapter 2: Disk Harrows… p. 46

Chapter 3: Harrows, Pulverizers, Field Cultivators… p. 51

Part Two – Planting

Chapter 4: Grain Drills… p. 55

Chapter 5: Corn Planters… p. 65

Chapter 6: Cotton and Corn Planters… p. 74

Chapter 7: Listers… p. 79

Chapter 8: Potato Planters… p. 85

Part Three – Cultivating

Chapter 9: Rotary Hoes… p. 90

Chapter 10: Shovel Cultivators… p. 93

Tractor Cultivators… p. 100

Chapter 11: Disk Cultivators… p. 103

Chapter 12: Listed Crop Cultivators… p. 105

Part Four – Harvesting

Chapter 13: Grain Binders… p. l3.