Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment: How to Keep Tractors and Implements Running Well. A Storey BASICS® Title

by Steve Hansen, Ann Larkin Hansen

Overview

This Storey BASICS® title offers exactly what you need to know to keep your small farm’s equipment in good working order. Long-time farmers Steve and Ann Larkin Hansen cover everything from tractors and mowers to trimmers, tillers, ATVs, plows, discs, drills, planters, cultivators, mechanical rakes, and balers, showing you how to care for your equipment to prevent problems and how to diagnose and fix the things that do go wrong.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612125275
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	09/08/2015
Series:	Storey Basics
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Steve Hansen is co-author with his wife, Ann Larkin Hansen, of Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment. The Hansens have run a family farm in Wisconsin for the last 20 years.

Ann Larkin Hansen is the author of The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, The Organic Farming Manual, The Electric Fencing Handbook, Finding Good Farmland, and Making Hay; coauthor of A Landowner’s Guide to Managing Your Woods with consulting forester Dennis Waterman and master logger Mike Severson; and coauthor with her husband, Steve, of Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment. She has been a journalist for more than 30 years, specializing in organic agriculture and sustainable forestry. A homesteader and a small-scale organic farmer, she lives with her family on a farm in northern Wisconsin. 

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Parts

Chapter Two:  Systems

Chapter Three: Fluids

Chapter Four:  Tools

Chapter Five:  Maintenance

Chapter Six:  Diagnostics

Chapter Seven:  Repairs

Chapter Eight:  Getting Professional Help

Resources

Maintenance Log

Index