Bøker av Brian Bell

This comprehensive guide will show you everything you need to know about tractor ploughing, its history, different kinds of models, and its competitive traditions. Featuring detailed sections on various types of ploughs, basic techniques, the Society of Ploughmen's rules for ploughing matches, and so much more, also included in this new edition are current rules for match ploughing, judges' scoring system, and a list of ploughing organizations around the world.

By the end of the 20th century there were some half-million tractors on British farms--more machines than people to drive them. Bell's encyclopedic book traces the evolution of the farm tractor from the days of starting handle and pan seat to current four-wheel drive machines with air-conditioned cabs and computer management systems.tems.

The range is wide: 2-wheeled garden tractors; rotary cultivators; 4-wheeled ride-on tractors; ploughs; drills; cultivators; sprayers; grass-cutting equipment; small trucks and miscellaneous estate items. For this enlarged edition (of "Fifty Years of Garden Machinery"), the author has fully revised all the sections, increased the length of the text and added many new photographs.

This outstanding field guide features 318 of Washington''s most abundant or notable bird species. Each account includes a full-color and detailed illustration, along with information about habitat, nesting, feeding, voice, similar species, as well as a range map. A Quick Reference Guide organizes all species into color-coded family groupings. Also included are a glossary of terms, a birder''s checklist and separate indexes for scientific and common names. A map features the state''s best birding sites and describes Washington''s most notable viewing locations.

This work is a highly illustrated general introduction to Ransomes' products, an output that touches on the concerns of a varied range of enthusiasts, including those interested in steam, working horses, tractors and grass-cutting equipment.