Tractor Ploughing Manual : The Society of Ploughmen Official Handbook

This official Society of Ploughmen handbook is aimed at people new to ploughing who need the basics for farm work, and the growing number of competitors at ploughing matches. This updated second edition includes the current rules for international match ploughing, the scoring system and ploughing organisations throughout the world.It gives an introduction to:•the types of plough and how to set them up•the main classes of competitive tractor ploughing: vintage mounted and trailed; world-type conventional ploughing; and reversible ploughing•a short history of ploughsAmong the 200 illustrations there are over 150 colour photographs specially commissioned to show in detail good practices as well as faults and how to correct them. Author Brian Bell, Britain''s leading farm machinery writer, has written this manual with the help of a number of ploughing experts including Ken Chappell, David Chappell and Peter Alderslade.