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A swather (North America), or windrower (Australia and rest of world), is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow for drying. Crimper rollers and cutting discs. They may be self-propelled with an engine, or drawn by a tractor and power take-off powered. [1] A swather uses a reciprocating sickle bar or ...
MacDon Industries Ltd. is a Canadian manufacturer of specialty agricultural equipment. The company was established by Joe MacDonald (1924–1991) of Truro, Nova Scotia in 1970, having purchased Killbery Industries Ltd., which had been manufacturing swathers (windrowers) since 1949. [1][2] With an 800,000 square feet (74,000 m 2) factory in the ...
The Model D was John Deere's first mass-produced tractor, and was released to the public in 1923. It was a standard tread tractor with fixed wheel widths, as opposed to the adjustable wheels of a row-crop tractor. The D was initially equipped with a two-cylinder side-by-side 30-horsepower (22 kW) engine, of 465-cubic-inch (7,620 cc ...
19th century. Deere & Company began when John Deere, born in Rutland, Vermont, United States, on February 7, 1804, moved to Grand Detour, Illinois, in 1836, [5] to escape bankruptcy in Vermont. Already an established blacksmith, Deere opened a 1,378-square-foot (128 m 2) shop in Grand Detour in 1837, which allowed him to serve as a general ...
The modern combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine designed to harvest a variety of cultivated seeds. Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labour-saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of the population engaged in agriculture. [1] Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, rice ...
The John Deere Model M tractor was a two-cylinder row-crop tractor produced by John Deere from 1947 to 1952, with successor models produced until 1960. It was succeeded by the updated 40, 420 and 430 models, as well as the 320 and 330 models that occupied the market positions left vacant by the more powerful 400 series models.
The John Deere GP wide-tread, or GPWT, built from November 1929 to November 1933. The John Deere GP wide-tread Series P, a GPWT with narrowed rear tread width designed to suit potato rows, built between January and August 1930. The John Deere general purpose orchard tractor, or "GPO", from April 1931 to April 1935.
Succeeded by. John Deere 60. The John Deere Model A is a row crop tractor manufactured by Deere & Company. The A was produced in a wide variety of versions for special-purpose cultivation. It received a styling upgrade in 1939 and electric starting in 1947. With the advent of John Deere's numerical model numbering system, the A became the John ...