Brian Bell’s Farm Machinery textbook is the leading introduction to current agricultural machinery and its operation. You will also find a wide range of books and DVDs on the history of farm machinery including Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies and the NIAE tests.
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Agriculture in Germany Volume 1 (DVD) - Jörn and Tammo Gläser
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Agricultural film-makers Jörn and Tammo Gläser have travelled widely through Germany to make four new programmes. 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.
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Agriculture in Germany Volume 2 (DVD) - Jörn and Tammo Gläser
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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.
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Agriculture in Germany Volume 3 (DVD) - Jörn and Tammo Gläser
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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.
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Agriculture in Germany Volume 4 (DVD) - Jörn and Tammo Gläser
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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.
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Agriculture in Germany boxed set (DVDx4) - Jörn and Tammo Gläser
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Agriculture in Germany boxed set of four DVDs.
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Agriculture in North America vol 2 (DVD) - Tammo Gläser
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With a clear English-language voice-over, German film-maker Tammo Gläser shows aspects of very large-scale farming in Canada at harvest time. In particular he shows the operation of fourteen Case-IH combines (with pick-up headers) on one of the country’s biggest farms, near Lethbridge, Alberta.
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Agriculture in North America vol 3 (DVD) - Tammo Gläser Productions
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In the third part of their American travels Jörn and Tammo have visited the Midwest states of Iowa and the Dakotas in spring when enormous machinery prepares the ground for corn and soybean planting. In this 90-minute film they show us more than 25 different modern and sometimes very unusual agricultural machines associated with seedbed cultivation, drilling and slurry technology.
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Agriculture in Russia Vol. 1 (DVD) - Tammo Gläser
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For his latest look into farming methods and machinery Tammo Gläser has selected the black earth area of Russia. This lies around the city of Voronezh, south-west of Moscow and close to the border with Ukraine.
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Agriculture in North America Parts 2 & 3 (DVD) - Tammo Gläser
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Beet Harvesters in Britain Part 1 1960-1995 (DVD) - Chris Lockwood
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This, the first of a two-part DVD set, covers the development of beet harvesters from 1960 to the mid-1990s. It documents the changes, firstly, from trailed single-row side-elevator harvesters on to multi-row trailed machines. It deals with early self-propelled harvesters and finally with the more recent six-row tanker machines.
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Beet Harvesters in Britain Part 2 1995-2012 (DVD) - Chris Lockwood
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The second DVD in this two-part DVD set focuses on the advances in harvester design of the past fifteen years. Tanks are larger and there are more axles to spread the massive weights involved. The machines handle an increasing number of rows with far more technical monitoring.
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Beet Harvesters 2-DVD set
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Classic Farm Machinery Volume One 1940-1970 (DVD) - Brian Bell
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The first of a two-part series, this superb compilation of archive film selected by Brian Bell covers the period from 1940 to 1970...
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Classic Farm Machinery Volume Two 1970-1995 (DVD) - Brian Bell
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The second of a two-part series, this superb compilation of archive film selected by Brian Bell covers the period from 1970 to 1995...
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Classic Combines/ Farm Machinery 1 & 2/ Tractors - 4 DVD set offer (DVD)
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Farming Diaries: a life on the land (DVD) - Presented by Stephen Richmond
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68-year-old John Want shows how he runs a 350-acre arable and cattle farm single-handed. He has been on the farm all his life and first of all tells Stephen how his mechanisation has advanced over the years.
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Farming Diaries Part 2: from the driving seat (DVD) - Stephen Richmond & Jonathan Whitlam
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For nearly twenty years Stephen Richmond has worked for farmer John Raven, near Lowestoft, Suffolk. The farm has grown to well over 500 acres, an arable unit whose main crops are oilseed rape, sugar beet, potatoes, wheat and barley.
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Farm Machinery (Hardback) - Brian Bell
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For students of agriculture or others needing a sound introduction to the full range of farm machinery and tractors in current use, this book provides a straightforward guide...
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Farm Machinery Film Records: Autumn work and rootcrops (DVD) - Brian Bell
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This programme uses extracts from a collection of silent films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. Some of the films record machinery working in the field, others show experimental farm machines. They include manure spreaders, hedgers, ploughs, potato spinners, potato and root harvesters .
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Farm Machinery Film Records: Harvest (DVD) - Brian Bell
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More extracts from a collection of silent films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. They cover the grain crop, grass and silage. The machines include those that went successfully into production as well as rarities whose development was curtailed.
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Farm Machinery Film Records: Part 3 Testing & prototypes (DVD): Brian Bell
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This programme uses extracts from a collection of films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. The Institute had been established by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1942 with a remit to design prototype farm equipment and publish test reports of the performance of production tractors and farm machinery.
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Farm Machinery Film Records: 3 DVD set offer (DVD)
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Special offer: the three Farm Machinery Film Records DVDs for £44.95
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Ferguson on the Farm Part One (DVD) - Harold Beer & Stuart Gibbard
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Harry Ferguson's system of farm mechanisation is brought to life here by some 25 implements filmed at work...
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Ferguson on the Farm Part Two (DVD) - Harold Beer & Stuart Gibbard
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This video shows a wide range of Ferguson equipment, ploughs, cultivators and disc harrows at work...
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Ferguson on the Farm Part Three (DVD) - Harold Beer & Stuart Gibbard
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Our third visit to Great Shortridge farm sees Harold Beer demonstrate implements from the later Ferguson era as well as machines from the early Massey Ferguson range...
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Ferguson on the Farm - 3 DVD set offer (DVD)
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Harry Ferguson: inventor and pioneer (Paperback) - Colin Fraser
Ref: 523B
Packed with fact, but simply put together and easy to read, Colin Fraser's 'Harry Ferguson - Inventor and Pioneer' is essential reading for those requiring a background knowledge of tractor development over the last 60 years.
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Machinery for Horticulture - 2nd edition (Hardback) - Brian Bell & Stewart Cousins
Ref: 530B
For students of horticulture, grounds-keeping and estate management, this book offers an unrivalled introduction to the machinery with which they will have to work...
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Maize Silage Campaign, The (DVD) - Chris Lockwood
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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.
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Massey Ferguson Farm Implements and Machinery Part 1 1958-70 (DVD) - George French and Dennis Burston
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In the period 1958-70 Massey Ferguson developed an outstanding range of implements and machinery that worked as a team with an equally fine succession of tractors. The farmer and contractor could be sure to find in the dealerships the mechanical aids that were just right for their circumstances.
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Massey Ferguson Farm Implements and Machinery Part 2 1970-77 (DVD) - George French and Dennis Burston
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In Part 2 of this 3-part set we move on to 1970-77, a period when MF was responding to the drive for increased agricultural output.
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Massey Ferguson Farm Implements and Machinery Part 3 1977-88 (DVD) - George French and Dennis Burston
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In Part 3 of this 3-part set we move on to 1977–88, exploring implements and machines closely associated with the 500 and 600 tractor ranges. At the end of the programme we look forward to the 1990s.
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Massey Ferguson Farm Implements and Machinery three DVD set offer
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Pea Files, The : harvesting the most easterly peas in Britain (DVD) - Stephen Richmond & Jonathan Whitlam (Tractor Barn)
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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.
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Peter and Pauline at Hollyhock Farm (Hardback) - R.A.E. Linney
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In this reprint of a book from 1951 nine-year old twins Peter and Pauline go from the city to the farm and learn about the countryside. And they find hidden treasure!
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Ploughs and Ploughing Techniques (DVD) - Brian Bell
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This comprehensive guide is for those using or interested in commercial ploughs and ploughing...
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Potato Files, The (DVD) - Stephen Richmond & Jonathan Whitlam
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In this packed DVD the Tractor Barn producers look at the past and present of potato mechanisation. They use a combination of archive footage and current filming that ranges from the Ferguson spinner to the Ploeger self-propelled tanker harvester.
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Power of the Past (DVD) - Brian Bell
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Bill Kemball's 'Power of the Past' event has quickly established itself as one of the most remarkable field demonstrations of vintage agricultural and allied machinery in Britain...
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Ransomes and their Tractor Share Ploughs (Hardback) - Anthony Clare
Ref: 536B
Aimed at tractor and ploughing enthusiasts, this is the first book to classify, describe and show the wide range of ploughs produced by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies...
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Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies (Hardback) - Brian Bell
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Ploughs and tillage machinery, steam engines, grass-cutting equipment, trolleybuses, threshers, tractors, combines, electric trucks...
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Seventy Years of Garden Machinery (Hardback) - Brian Bell
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Covering the period 1920-90 Brian Bell deals with the development of the smaller machines used on estates, allotments, nurseries and large gardens.
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Seventy Years of Farm Machinery Part One: Seed Time (Hardback) - Brian Bell
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Brian Bell's Fifty Years of Farm Machinery has long been a standard book for enthusiasts. Although Brian can only show a random sample of the hundreds of implements and machines used on the land, in his new edition he has considerably expanded the work. To make the project more manageable, he has divided the subject into two parts, the first of which was published December 2009
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Seventy Years of Farm Machinery Part Two : Harvest (Hardback) - Brian Bell
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In the twentieth century the machinery for harvesting cereals, grass and root crops changed beyond recognition. Brian Bell’s latest book charts this technical revolution from the 1930s to the 1990s.
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Seventy Years of Farm Machinery books 1 & 2
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Threshers and Threshing (DVD) - Country Films
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In the glory days of threshing the equipment travelled from farm to farm with steam traction engine or tractor...
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Vintage Garden Tractors (DVD) - Brian Bell
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The garden tractors in this video span from a mid-1930s Gravely Model L and Swiss-built Simar Rototiller to machines from the mid-60s such as Crawley, Winget, Ransomes MG 40 and David Brown 2D. Among old favourites there is a range of Trusty tractors...
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Year on an Arable Farm, A (DVD) - Andrew Lyle
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Seen through the eyes of farmer Andrew Lyle, this DVD charts a year's progress on a 500-acre arable farm at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The project began as an educational aid suitable for schools, so at each stage it covers in some detail why and how the work is being done. The programme is written and narrated by Sean Sparling.
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