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Old Pond Publishing Ltd are publishers of DVDs and books for enthusiasts in the land-based industries: farmers and smallholders, workers in the earthmoving, forestry and heavy transport occupations. We deal with current activities and machinery as well as the history of the industries. We are based in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.
You will find books and DVDs on the following subjects: archive film footage, cattle, combine harvesting, farm cookery, demolition, earthmoving, East Anglia, farm machinery, forestry, goat-keeping, working horses, farming pocket books, Land girls, rural history, model tractors, farming novels, old photography, plant names, ploughing, poultry and ducks, practical farming, sea and rivers, sheep and lambing, sheepdogs and gundogs, steam traction engines, tractors, trucking and heavy loads. Click on the links at the side of every page to browse our current range of titles.
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Special Transport - Gertjan Houtman Dutch transport companies have a world-wide reputation for moving heavy and outsized loads. This programme features the work of three specialists - Sarens, Mammoet and Saan ...more |
| Agriculture in Germany Volume 1 -
Jörn and Tammo Gläser Volume 1 starts in early in a wet spring when soft ground makes cultivation difficult. Agricultural contractors are drilling beet and planting potatoes. Soil preparation for spring cereals is in full swing....more |
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| Agriculture in Germany Volume 2 -
Jörn and Tammo Gläser In Volume 2 it is early summer with New Holland and Claas forage harvesters taking first cuts of grass. Large-scale Krone combines are at work, and the highlights of the programme include the 524 hp Claas Xerion 5000 and the Agco Challenger. ...more |
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| Agriculture in Germany Volume 3 -
Jörn and Tammo Gläser In Volume 3, combines with cutterbars up to 12 metres are busy harvesting, followed by balers and large John Deere articulated tractors dealing with the stubble. Film from Bavaria deals with grassland and we see forestry machines at work in Hesse.....more |
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| Agriculture in Germany Volume 4 -
Jörn and Tammo Gläser Machines at work in Volume 4 - the autumn - include the Krone BigX 1100 and Fendt's new Kantana 65 forage harvester as well as the Claas Lexion 770 and Case IH Quadtrac. Winter cereals are being drilled, while sugar beet is harvested and loaded....more |
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| Agriculture in Germany boxed set -
Jörn and Tammo Gläser Agriculture in Germany boxed set of four DVDs. ...more |
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| Honey: a Beekeeper's Guide - William Smith A unique DVD for beekeepers, devoted entirely to honey. ...more |
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| The Classic Tractor Review - Stephen Richmond and Jonathan Whitlam (Tractor Barn)
Classic tractors belong to the golden years when manufacturers competed keenly to keep pace with advances in agricultural equipment and machinery. At the same time, tractors became more stylish and comfortable – a pleasure to work with....more |
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| A New Introduction to Beekeeping - Paul Metcalf This revised edition of Paul Metcalf's best-selling guide to beekeeping takes us through the beekeeping year from April to the onset of winter. ...more |
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The Maize Silage Campaign - Chris Lockwood In his twenty-one years of maize harvesting, Suffolk contractor Robert Self has seen all sorts of seasons from the very dry to the impossibly wet. Film-maker Chris Lockwood captured the vagaries of Robert's final campaign, 2008. ...more |
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Roadscapes II: Landscapes of the Road
: Alan Spillett Artist Alan Spillett's paintings of lorries have mostly been commissions from people who wanted a particular vehicle depicted for a personal connection. His scenes range from the days of the horse-drawn carriage to the trucks that thunder up and down our roads today. ...more |
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Looking at Logging Part 1:
Pete Connock & Martin Phippard (CP Productions) |
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Ipswich: the changing face of the town:
David Kindred
Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk, has hosted famous engineering companies and major insurance groups; it is a progressive town which has transformed itself over the past hundred years. Today, new buildings jostle alongside those which have managed to survive for centuries. ...more |
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Walking with Giants: Europe's Massive Earthmovers - Steven Vale Steven Vale looks at massive earthmoving machines in fourteen European countries from Spain and Italy to Swedish and Finnish Lapland. He describes the regions in which the mining is set, provides information about the industries they serve and portrays some of the characters involved. ...more |
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The Working Horse Manual -
Second Edition:
Edited by Diana Zeuner |
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International Harvester Tractors: A Power on the Land 1906-85 : Stephen Richmond and Jonathan Whitlam (Tractor Barn)
The story of the International harvester tractor is a long and distinguished one that starts in the United States with the Titan and Mogul. In the early part of this DVD Jonathan and Stephen pay particular attention to the Titan 10-20 and the Mogul 8-16. ...more |
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IRT Deadliest Roads Season One: The History Channel |
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Know Your Diggers - Paul Argent
This selection is designed to satisfy the curiosity of people becoming interested in the plant and machinery they see as they travel around the UK. Paul Argent's selection includes diggers, excavators, backhoes, rollers, cranes, demolition machines, loaders, dumpers and a road planer....more |
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The Pea Files: harvesting the most easterly peas in Britain
Stephen Richmond & Jonathan Whitlam (Tractor Barn) From the McBain cutter-rower via Mather & Platt mobile viners to the PMC 989, the technology of pea harvesting has been transformed over the past fifty years. In this DVD, harvesting enthusiasts Stephen Richmond and Jonathan Whitlam show developments in East Anglia over the period..... more |
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Ax Men: the Complete Season Three - The History Channel It would be very hard to beat this Ax Men series for excitement. In the Pacific north-west – Oregon and Washington State – three teams of loggers are battling to be called king of the mountain. The mountainous terrain is extreme, and you can add to that 90-degree summer heat and killer bees. ...more |
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Inside Massey Ferguson - a story of service - David Walker In his autobiography, 'Inside Massey Ferguson - A Story of Service', former Massey Ferguson employee David Walker provides an unparalleled insight into what it was like to work in the service department of the world's largest tractor manufacturer during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. ....more |
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On Wings of Diesel: trucks, identity and culture in Pakistan - Jamal J. Elias A colourful book full of information and superb photographs about what are perhaps the most outstandingly decorated vehicles in the world. Among other topics the book deals thoroughly with the trucking industry in Pakistan and the craft and meaning of truck design there.....more |
| The Rubber Track Revolution -
Chris Lockwood
This programme charts the development of rubber-tracked crawlers including models from Case IH, Cat, Challenger, Claas, John Deere and Morooka. They were filmed on British farms in 2010-11 subsoiling, ploughing, cultivating, discing, pressing and drilling. ...more |
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