Farm tractors : the CASE/DAVID BROWN GUIDE to tractor selection, operation, economics and servicing / Bill Butterworth.
By: Butterworth, Bill [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : E. & F. N. Spon Ltd, 1984Copyright date: ©1984Description: vi, 149 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780419132400 (paperback); 9780419132301.Other title: Farm tractors : the Case guide to tractor selection, operation, economics and servicing.Subject(s): Farm tractors| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 629.2252 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00162094 | |
| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 629.225 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000184162 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes index.
The UK tractor population -- The farming scene: the statistics of how tractors fit in -- Matching the tractor to the individual farm -- The choice: what makes a good tractor? -- Tractor numbers and sizes -- Ownership, replacement policy and contractors -- Operation -- Maintenance and care -- Professionalism.
CIT Module AGRI 6001 - Supplementary reading.