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.

Traction and power

• Tractor
• Crawler tractor / Caterpillar tractor

Self Propelled Machinery

• Combine Harvester
• Rape Swather
• Beet harvester
• Bean harvester
• Maize harvester
• Forage harvester (or silage harvester)
• Potato harvester

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

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

Irrigation

• Center pivot irrigation
• Pump Unit

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 tedder
• Hay cart
• Mower

Loading

• Backhoe
• Front end loader
• Rear Loader - attachment
• Skid-steer loader
• Telehandler

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

• Binder
• Reaper
• Threshing machine
• Finger Mower

Steam-powered:

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

Towed Cultivator and Steam Ploughing Engine (seen 2008)

A Pair of trailed Fingerbar mowers

List of Implement & Machinery Manufacturers

• Aldersley Engineering
• Allis-Chalmers
• Bamfords
• Bamlett
• Bettinson
• Bomford
• Dowdswell
• Fahr
• GWB Farm machinery
• Howard
• HY-MACwww.hy-mac.com
• International Harvester
• Jones
• Kidd
• Kone
• KRM
• Kverneland
• Lewis
• Maldon Ironworks Ltd

• Martin's Cultivator Company
• Massey-Harris
• Massey Ferguson
• McConnell
• McCormick
• New Holland
• PZ
• Ransomes
• Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
• Reekie
• Root Harvesters Ltd
• Rowell Trailers
• Shelbourne Reynolds
• Simba
• F.A. Standen & Sons
• Twoss
• Vicon
• William Cook

See also

• Roll over protection structure ROPS
• Engine Manufacturers

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