A wide range of tools and equipment, from compact tractors to chainsaws and from winches to torque wrenches, are employed on today’s productive and efficiently organized smallholdings. There are few publications that provide the smallholder with comprehensive, technical and maintenance information and this well-illustrated book helps to fill a gap.
- Describes how to safely operate a compact tractor, essential tractor implements and ‘tow behind’ equipment
- Considers how engines, both large and small, function and how they can be maintained in safe working order
- Discusses how to use chainsaws safely and how to maintain them
- Examines manual and portable electric winches and how they should be rigged and operated
- Demonstrates how you can teach yourself to weld
- Covers the safe use and general maintenance of all terrain vehicles [ATVs]
- Provides guidance on the correct use of hand tools
Available both new and used from Amazon.
Amazon Reviews of Tools and Machinery for the Smallholder:
“Pleased with this very informative book have found it useful.”
Further Books in this Section
- Making Small Farms Work by Richard Perkins
- New Complete Self-Sufficiency by John Seymour
- Pest Control for the Smallholder by David Bezzant
- Starting with a Smallholding by David Hills
- Successful Smallholding by Jeremy Hobson
- The Smallholder’s Manual by Katie Thear
- The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone
- Tools and Machinery for the Smallholder by John Bezzant
- Viable Self-Sufficiency by Tim & Dot Tyne