Farm Mechanics
by Herbert A. Shearer
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About this eBook
- Author
- Shearer, Herbert A.
- Title
- Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm.
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- S: Agriculture
- Subject
- Agricultural machinery
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 39791
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39791
- Release Date
- May 25, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Farm Mechanics
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.FARM MECHANICS
- 5.CHAPTER I — THE FARM SHOP WITH TOOLS FOR WORKING WOOD AND IRON — FARM SHOP AND IMPLEMENT HOUSE — SHOP TOOLS — WOODWORKING BENCH — WOODWORKING TOOLS — FARM GRINDSTONE — BLACKSMITH SHOP
- 6.CHAPTER II — FARM SHOP WORK — PROFITABLE HOME REPAIR WORK
- 7.CHAPTER III — GENERATING MECHANICAL POWER TO DRIVE MODERN FARM MACHINERY — DOG CHURN — BULL TREADMILL — WINDMILLS — ONE-MULE PUMP — HORSEPOWER — WATER-POWER — STEAM BOILER AND ENGINE — SMALL GASOLINE ENGINES — KEROSENE PORTABLE ENGINES — PORTABLE FARM ENGINE AND TRUCK — HYDRAULIC RAM — THE FARM TRACTOR
- 8.CHAPTER IV — DRIVEN MACHINES — FARM WATERWORKS — IRRIGATION BY PUMPING — ELECTRICITY ON THE FARM — GASOLINE HOUSE LIGHTING — ACETYLENE GAS — WOOD-SAW FRAMES — ROOT PULPER — FEED CRUSHER — STUMP PULLER — FARM ELEVATING MACHINERY
- 9.CHAPTER V — WORKING THE SOIL — IMPORTANCE OF PLOWING — THE MECHANICS OF PLOWING — PLOWING BY TRACTOR — DISK HARROW — KNIFE-EDGE PULVERIZERS — CLOD CRUSHER — FARM ROLLER — CORN-PLANTER — GRAIN DRILL — SPECIAL CROP MACHINERY — WHEEL HOE
- 10.CHAPTER VI — HANDLING THE HAY CROP — REVOLVING HAYRAKE — HAY-TEDDER — HAY SKIDS — WESTERN HAY DERRICKS — CALIFORNIA HAY RICKER
- 11.CHAPTER VII — FARM CONVEYANCES — STONE-BOAT — OXEN ON A NEW ENGLAND FARM — TRAVOY — LINCHPIN FARM WAGONS — SAND-BANDS — BOBSLEIGHS — MAKING A FARM CART — COLT-BREAKING SULKY
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — MISCELLANEOUS FARM CONVENIENCES — FARM OFFICE — SPEED INDICATOR — SOIL TOOLS — FENCE-MAKING TOOLS — CORN SHOCK HORSE — HUSKING-PIN — PAINT BRUSHES — FRUIT PICKING — FRUIT PICKING LADDERS — FEEDING RACKS — SPLIT-LOG ROAD DRAG — STEEL ROAD DRAG — SEED HOUSE AND BARN TRUCKS — HOME CANNING OUTFIT — ELECTRIC TOWEL — STALLS FOR MILCH GOATS — STABLE HELPS — HOUSE PLUMBING — FARM SEPTIC TANK
- 13.INDEX
- 14.DRAKE’S MECHANICAL BOOKS — Electrical Books — Automobile Books — Farm Books — Shop Practice Books — Steam Engineering Books — Railroad Books — Carpentry and Building Books — Painting Books
- 15.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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