List of Types of Agricultural Machinery

Restored Deering Binder (at the Astwoodbank nr.Redditch Vintage Show 2008)

Immaculate MF Potato planter at Cromford steam fair 2008

Agricultural Machinery is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind is the tractor. A special group is Self Propelled Machinery.

Self Propelled Machinery

• Apple harvester
• Bean harvester
• Beet harvester
• Combine Harvester
• Crop sprayer
• Forage harvester (or silage harvester)
• Maize harvester
• Pea harvester (Viner)
• Potato harvester
• Rape Swather
• Timber forwarder
• Vegetable harvester-processor (pick and pack in the field)

List of farm implements

Soil cultivation

• Cultivator
• Chisel plow
• Harrow
  • Spike harrow
  • Drag harrow
  • Disk harrow
• Plough
• Power tiller
• Rotary tiller
• Rotavator
• Rototiller
• Spading machine
• Subsoiler
• Sulky Plow

Planting

• Broadcast seeder (alternately: broadcast spreader or fertilizer spreader)
• Plastic mulch layer
• Potato planter
• Seed drill
• Air seeder
• Precision drill
• Transplanter

Fertilizing & Pest Control

• Fertilizer spreader, see broadcast seeder
• Terragator
• Manure spreader
• Sprayer
• Lime spreader
• Slurry Injector
• Vacuum tanker

Drainage & Irrigation

• Drain layer
• Fin drain layer
• Gravel carts
• Mole Plough
• Pipe jetter
• Tile layer
• Trencher
• Center pivot irrigation
• Irrigation reel
• Pipe trailer/Pipe rack
• Pump Unit
• Rain gun

Harvesting / post-harvest

• Potato digger
• Beet Harvester
• Drum Mower
• Trailer
• Grain Trailer
• Bale trailer
• Vegetable Picker ?

Hay making

• Bale Grab
• Baler
• Conditioner
• Hay rake
• Hay trader
• Hay cart
• Mower
• Flushing bar

Loading

• Auger
• Backhoe
• Conveyor
• Forklift
• Front end loader
• Rear Loader - attachment
• Skid-steer loader
• Telehandler
• Wheeled Loader

Miscellaneous

• Grain auger
• Bale elevator
• Conveyor belt
• Feed grinder
• Log splitter
• Mole Plough
• Pasture topper
• Sack elevator
• Stone picker
• Straw Shredder
• Transport box
• Vacuum Tanker or Slurry Tanker

Obsolete farm machinery

A Pair of trailed Fingerbar mowers

• Binder
• Finger Mower
• Horse plough (Plow)
• Reaper
• Threshing machine

Steam-powered:

• Stationary Engine
• Portable engine
• Steam tractor
• Traction engine
  • Agricultural Engine
  • Ploughing Engine

Steam Ploughing Engine and Cultivator. (seen 2008)

List of Implement & Aggricultural Machinery Manufacturers

• Aldersley Engineering -
• Allis-Chalmers - Combine harvesters, tractors and balers
• Amazon - Seed drills, Fertiliser spreaders and sprayers
• Bamfords - Harvest machinery and engines
• Bamlett - Mowers, corn rollers, feed mills
• Bettinson - Seed drills & dual wheels
• Blackstone - Machinery & engines
• Bomford - Hedge cutters & mowers
• Browns of Leighton Buzzard - Bale handling
• Chisholm-Ryder Corporation - Harvesting machinery
• Claas - Tractors and harvesting machinery
• Deans -
• Dowdeswell - Ploughs
• Fahr - Grass machinery
• FMC Corporation - Pea viners
• John Fowler & Co. - Steam ploughs & cultivation machinery
• Grimme - Harvesters
• GWB Farm machinery
• Harrison, McGregor and Guest - Drills, Mowers, Chaff cutters
• Herbst - Peat harvesting, Crushers & screens, Trailers
• Highlander - Forestry machinery
• Houseman - Sprayers
• Howard - Rotavators and muck spreaders
• International Harvester - Tractors
• JCB - Fastrac, skid steer, wheel loaders, backhoe loaders
• John Deere - Full line of farm machinery
• Jones - Balers
• Joskin Group - trailers, muck spreader and tankers
• Kidd -
• Krone - Hay and grass machinery
• KRM -
• Kverneland - Ploughs
• Lewis - Small tractor attachments
• Lite-Trac - Sprayers
• Maldon Ironworks Ltd -

• Martin's Cultivator Company -
• Marshall, Sons & Co. - Threshing machines, saw benches
• Massey-Harris - Tractors, balers, ploughs, harvest machinery
• Massey Ferguson - Full line of machinery
• Mathers & Platt - Pea viners & static processing plant
• McConnell - Hedge cutters & mowers
• McCormick - Harvesting machinery & tractors
• McHale - Balers, mowers and bale wrappers
• New Holland - Balers & Tractors
• Overum - Ploughs
• OXBO International Corporation - Harvesting machinery
• Pettit -
• PMC Harvesters Ltd - Pea viners
• Ploeger (G. Ploeger BV)
• Ponsse - Forestry
• PZ - Mowers and grassland machinery
• Ransomes
• Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies - Ploughs, sprayers, coultivators
• Reekie -
• Root Harvesters Ltd -
• RostSelMash(Russian) - Combines and Balers
• Rowell Trailers -
• Scott-Viner Company - Harvesting machinery
• Shelbourne Reynolds - Rape swathers
• Simba - Cultivation machinery
• S R Agro- Disc Blades & Agriculture Machinery
• F.A. Standen & Sons - Beet harvesters
• Strimech - Material handling attachments
• Terra Tech - Cultivation machinery
• Timberjack - Forestry
• Twose -
• Vicon - Spreaders
• William Cook - Bale handling

See also

• Roll over protection structure ROPS
• Engine Manufacturers

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