The modern gas tractor, its construction, utility, operation and repair; a practical treatise defining every branch of up-to-date gas tractor engineering, driving and maintenance in a non-technical manner. Considers fully all types of power plants and their components, methods of drive and speed changing mechanisms. Describes design and construction of all parts, their installation and adjustment as well as practical application of tractors in the field (1914)
Pagé, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947 · New York : Norman W. Henley · leaf 416
e work being better than wouldbe obtained by horse power. The tractor referred to has also been used by thetown chiefly for hauling gravel and crushed stone anddoing other work of this nature, but in this particularinstance has, during the late fall and winter, been asource of revenue to them as it… … Fig. 189.—Harvesting With Avery Gas Tractor in North Dakota. pounds, exclusive of the weight of the machine, can behauled with a tractor of but 15 horse-power. On mac-adam roads, or good gravel roads, the hauling capacityis, of course, increased. As a rule, the character of theroad surface greatly…
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