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Item Details
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MACHINERY FOR HORTICULTURE
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By: |
Brian Bell, Stewart Cousins, Stewart Cousins |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£14.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0852363699 |
ISBN 13: |
9780852363690 |
Publisher: |
5M PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 1997 |
Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
Pages: |
304 |
Description: |
The diversity of horticulture and its machinery is catered for in this book by sections on two and four-wheeled tractors, cultivation, sowing, crop protection, and harvesting equipment. Further chapters cover grass cutting, turf care, grounds maintenance, irrigation, and glasshouse equipment. |
Synopsis: |
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. It covers the principles, mechanics, uses and maintenance of a very wide range of equipment. Topics covered include: tractors and power units - engines - lubrication and cooling - starting and charging systems - transmissions - steering, wheels and tyres - tractor hydraulic systems - tractor maintenance - ploughs and ploughing - cultivation machinery - fertiliser distributors - drills and planters - spraying machinery - grass-cutting machinery - turf-care equipment - glasshouse equipment - irrigation - vegetable and fruit machinery - machinery for estate and grounds maintenance - the workshop - power for horticulture. Machinery for Horticulture is in its second edition, an authoritative, concise text magnificently complemented by 360 illustrations. |
Illustrations: |
33 colour and 327 illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Old Pond Publishing Ltd |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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