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Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming.The best-known example of this kind is the tractor.. From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.
A potato spinner. A potato spinner is connected to a tractor through the three-point linkage.Older machines were drawn by horse and were driven by a ground drive. It works by a flat piece of metal which runs horizontal to the ground lifting the potatoes up and a large wheel with spokes on it called a reel pushing the clay and potatoes out to the side.
John Deere Harvester Works at 1100 13th Ave., East Moline, where 3,000 employees made agricultural implements; John Deere Industrial Equipment Works at 301 Third Ave., Moline, where 500 employees made earth-moving equipment; John Deere Malleable Works at 1335-13th Street, East Moline, where 600 employees made malleable and nodular iron castings
A John Deere cotton harvester at work in a cotton field. Combine is a machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing—into a single process.
The standard cross-auger 24' Model 224 grain platform header was an extra $15,000. The Deere 643 6-row corn head was around $20,000, and the Deere 653 Row Crop head was also close to $15,000. All 3 were needed if you planned on harvesting your own small grains like wheat or barley, and corn and milo or sunflowers. Total was nearly $130,000 USD.
In the U.S., Allis-Chalmers, Massey-Harris, International Harvester, Gleaner Manufacturing Company, John Deere, and Minneapolis Moline are past or present major combine producers. In 1937, the Australian-born Thomas Carroll, working for Massey-Harris in Canada, perfected a self-propelled model and in 1940, a lighter-weight model began to be ...
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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.