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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
THE GRAIN HARVESTERSA New History of HarvestingFarmers in the U.S., Canada, and other industrialized countries may think they have it tough when machinery breaks down, but let them give thought to this: "Possibly more than half the world's population survives on grain harvested by hand in a subsistence agriculture." And no user of modern equipment would want to go back to hand and foot power. The quotation is from a new book, "The Grain Harvesters," by Dr. Graeme R. Quick and Dr. Wesley Buchele, published by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. It is filled with information and pictures that should fascinate every reader of GEM. The book traces harvesting back to earliest known times, up through today, and makes some forecasts about the future. In addition to the story of days preceding production of equipment to do various jo... 812 of 1672 characters shown.
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