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 as well as practical application of tractors in the field (1919)
Pagé, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947 · New York : Scientific American Pub. Co. · leaf 81
draft, and the high gear is employed forcultivating, hauling a light load, or travelling on theroad. For ploughing the share is set inside of the framewith the front end of the beam attached to a malleablecasting under the front end of the frame. The driversits directly over the plough, which is in… … The Modern Gas Tractor 81 carrying seven-eights of the load in the bottom of thefurrows where the ground is solid. The makers claimthat it takes less power to push the machine under theseconditions than if running in loose soft stubble groundor over rough prairie sod. This motor machine will pulla…
Farm engines · Internal combustion engines
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