Farm Tractors On The Move

It drives through dirt and mud. It pulls heavy machines through fields. This farm tractor is on the move! What jobs do tractors do? And how do farmers drive tractors? Read this book to find out!

Describes how tractors work and the different jobs they perform on a farm.

Describes how tractors work and the different jobs they do on a farm.

The Fall Festival is coming, and Johnny Tractor and his friends have so much to do. Help them get Merriweather Farm ready for the festival in this exciting movable board book—readers can push cardstock machines on a track across every spread of the book to help Johnny Tractor and his friends get the farm ready.

Farm tractors are fascinating machines that are used in agriculture. Although they have a variety of uses, they were originally designed to perform a single task: pulling a wagon, a horse, or a cart. Today, tractors use three-point hitches to attach implements to their rear axles. You can learn more about farm tractors by reading this book. Listed below are some Farm Tractors Facts. First produced in 1917, tractors started to become affordable for many small farmers. Prices fell dramatically, and by 1935, there were more than a million tractors on the market. Ford, for example, created the Waterloo Boy, a tractor that ran on kerosene. This was so popular, hardware stores began selling the fuel for other uses. This fueled the tractor boom, and soon other manufacturers followed suit. The tractor's power take-off or PTO can be dangerous if an extra person is riding in the seat. Because there's nowhere for them to sit, it's very easy for a passenger to fall out of the tractor. Also, low-hanging branches and debris are likely to knock a person from the tractor's seat, resulting in a serious injury. For this reason, proper maintenance and care can help extend the tractor's lifespan and avoid injury. Historically, farmers used horses and other animals to pull and move farm equipment. While they did have some advantages, they were limited in their work and had to feed their animals. Today, they are more efficient and easy to use. With a tractor, farmers can simply top off the gas tank and they are ready to go! If you're a farmer, it's time to give them some love. And don't forget to check out some of the Farm Tractors Facts we've got for you!

Despite the fact that the farmer spends more on machinery than anything else except the land and despite the fact that he spends more on tractors than on any other machine, there are few books on the choice and operation of tractors to fit modern farming conditions. Most of this book is about farming and how to fit tractors to the individual situation. Those sections are completely unbiased and Case are happy to sponsor such a book in the wider interests of sensible, more productive and safer use of tractors and machinery. Where the Company's views are expressed it is clearly stated as such. This is mainly in the area of design detail and then only for the sake of being concise and brief. The first part of the book is concerned with relating the needs of the individual farm to specific details of tractor performance. Later chapters deal with policy on size, numbers and replacement. This section is a major development specifically about tractors. It is developed from the author's work Farm Mechanisationfor Prl!fitwhich deals with machinery in the wider sense. Later chapters of this book are related to profes sionalism in operation, maintenance and care.

The story of the Versatile Tractor company, long recognized for its innovation and its product dependability. The book is well-illustrated with contemporary and archival photographs as well as selections from company catalogs.

After the first tractors appeared on the scene in the late 1890s, it took another two decades and plenty of modifications for farmers to embrace this once-crude technology in favor of the steam engine, further advancing the power-farming revolution. Written by an international expert in agricultural machinery, Farm Tractors takes readers back to the nineteenth century to look at the precursors to modern tractors and travels through the years to follow the machine’s evolution as tractors became indispensable equipment on farms across America. INSIDE FARM TRACTORS: •How steam-powered machinery gave way to tractors, and how tractors changed the way that farmers worked •Prominent early manufacturers and models, including Henry Ford’s legendary Model F, International Harvester’s Farmall, the Waterloo Boy, John Deere, and many more •The use of hydraulics, the advent of diesel engines, the availability of four-wheel drive, and other technical breakthroughs •The introduction of new fuel sources as alternatives to gasoline •Specialized tractors for orchard work, high-acreage operations, carrying loads, cultivating, and other scenarios •The tractor industry’s major expansion following World War II •Modern-day tractors and an outlook on the future of farm machinery