How to Make the Most of your Tractor
This book is divided into four sections: operating your tractor, maintaining your tractor, carrying out field operations and how to work safely. Presented carefully and clearly, it is well illustrated with diagrams and pictures.
Published: 1985
Pages: 184
eBook: 9781780442440
Paperback: 9780946688517
SECTION 1 How to work safely | |||
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1 General safety (PY1 A1 | |||
2 Emergency aid in case of chemical poisoning (COM 7.1) | |||
3 Lifting and carrying (COM 1.1) | |||
SECTION 2 How to operate your tractor | |||
4 Daily checks (MI A l l | |||
5 Familiarisation with controls (MI A2) | |||
6 Driving straight forward and in reverse (MI A3) | |||
7 Driving around the farm (MI A4) | |||
8 Attaching mounted implements to the three-point | |||
linkage (MI B1) | |||
9 Hitching trailed machines (MI B2) | |||
10 Attaching pto shafts (MI B3) | |||
11 Connecting machines to the external hydraulic | |||
services (MI B4) | |||
12 Manoeuvring with mounted machines (MI 85) | |||
13 Manoeuvring with a two-wheeled trailer or | |||
trailed machine (MI B6) | |||
14 Jacking up tractors and wheeled machines (MI C1) | |||
15 Fitting wheel and frame weights (MI C2) | |||
16 Altering wheel track width (MI C4) | |||
17 Water ballasting tyres (M 1 C5) | |||
SECTION 3 | |||
SECTION 4 | |||
How to maintain your tractor | |||
18 Servicing tractors (excluding engines) (MI Dl ) | |||
19 Engine lubrication (M4 Al) | |||
20 Servicing cooling systems (M4 A2) | |||
21 Servicing vehicle electrical systems (M4 B1) | |||
How to carry out field operations | |||
22 Operating a fore-end loader (M5 HI) | |||
23 Ploughing with a mounted right-hand mouldboard | |||
plough (M6 A1 1 | |||
24 Ploughing with a mounted reversible mouldboard | |||
plough (M6 81 | |||
25 Pre-season ireparation of seed drills (M7 Al) | |||
26 Post season maintenance of seed drills (M7 A5) | |||
27 Preparing field crop sprayers (MÝITG) | |||
28- Calibrating field crops sprayers (M9 DlTA) | |||
29 Crop spraying (M9 D2) | |||
30 Maintaining reciprocating knife mowers (MI0 Al) | |||
31 Operating reciprocating knife mowers (MI0 A21 |